"Then if the Mongols come back, will you go back?" Zhao An felt that the old emperor's cowhide was a little too big, but he didn't care, and asked another question. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Come back? Hahahaha...... I'm afraid they won't be able to come back. Don't look at the border now, in a few years, this will be the capital of the Great Song Dynasty. I will let my son ascend the throne here again and be an emperor of a huge empire. The Mongols, the Liao, the Jin, the Koreans, and the Japanese all had to become nationals of the Great Song Dynasty, and whoever didn't want to, I would crucify him on the city wall. Do you think you are a Song person or a Jin person? Hong Tao listened to Zhao An's words and immediately laughed. This guy is looking into his own details, not for anything else, but for himself to choose a side, he wants to see if it is more reliable over there, so he will be a person over there.

“…… When, of course, it's a Song person, and my mother is a Song person! She fled from the south, really, my mother's tombstone still has the name of her hometown engraved on it, she still wants to go back to her hometown to see before she breathes, but unfortunately the villain has no ability to take her back! Zhao An saw Hong Tao's smiling face, and trembled with fright, it turned out that there could be someone laughing so madly. In order not to be nailed to the city wall first, he quickly carried his mother out, and it was well documented.

"That's good, are there any lakes and rivers in the north of the city, take me to see." Hong Tao put away the smile that looked at the dead man, and didn't plan to talk nonsense with him anymore. It is likely that his mother's tombstone really has the name of his hometown, but his father's tombstone may also have the name of the place in Liaodong. This kind of people who have been ruled by several dynasties and follow whoever comes has always been left behind, otherwise they will not survive.

The central capital city of the Jin people cannot be borrowed, but the city of Beijing still has to be built, and where to build it, Hong Tao needs to find the ground markers that existed in this era and have survived to later generations. This part of Beijing is a plain, there are no specific mountains, and you can't recognize whether they are or not, so you can only try to find rivers and lakes first. If nothing can be found, then Hong Tao can only roughly calculate according to the current location of the central capital, and the error is larger, no problem.

Hong Tao took more than 1,000 people and more than a dozen local guides to turn around the ruins of the central capital city first, and then explored a few kilometers to the north-east, and walked around for half a month before ending the exploration operation. It's really not in vain, Hong Tao has found more than one place that he is more familiar with, not only the name is the same, but the location should not be wrong.

The first is the Lotus Pond, and there is a lake called the Lotus Pond behind the Beijing West Railway Station in later generations. At this time, outside the west city wall of the central capital, there is also a lake full of lotus flowers, also called the lotus pond. It is said that the emperor of the Jin State Wan Yan Liang personally ordered people to plant, if the lotus can survive to build a city here, if it can't survive, then you have to go south to find a new place.

With just a lake and the same name, Hong Tao would not easily determine that this was the lotus pond of later generations. But when he walked under the nearby north city wall and saw the nameplate on the broken castle tower, he immediately felt that this was the lotus pond of the later generations. Because this city gate is called Huicheng Gate, and on the East Road of Lianhuachi in later generations, there is a bridge also called Huichengmen Bridge, and the location is similar, which should not be a coincidence.

If these two place names could not fully confirm the exact location, Hong Tao found a city gate in the southwest corner of the central capital, and its name was Lize Gate. Coincidentally, on the Southwest Third Ring Road in Beijing in later generations, there was also an overpass called Lize Bridge. Hong Tao roughly estimated with cavalry that the orientation of the two bridges in later generations was basically the same as that of the two city gates now, and the error was no more than 500 meters. Coupled with a lotus pond, the three parties enlisted, and the location relationship between the central capital city and the later Beijing city was basically clear.

Its west city wall is on the east bank of the lotus pond, the north end of the east city wall is a little south of the South China Sea in the later generations, and the south end is almost near the Yongdingmen Railway Station according to Hong Tao's memory. That is to say, the central capital of the Jin Dynasty should be within the third ring of Beijing in later generations, close to the southwest corner of the third ring to draw a square with a side length of about four kilometers. If you calculate the area within the third ring road, it is almost a quarter of the later Beijing City University.

In addition to these two city gates and a lotus pond, Hong Tao also made a big discovery, that is, there was a lake less than three hundred meters outside the city wall in the northeast corner of the central capital. At first, Hong Tao didn't realize the significance of this lake, but when he walked a few miles north along the lake's edge, he soon found that the lake spanned a long north-south span, not wide from east to west, and zigzagged from south to north, almost six kilometers.

"I must study history hard in the future, isn't this Nima Jishuitan, Shichahai, Beihai and Zhongnanhai!" When the lake was drawn on the map, Hong Tao was immediately unsettled. Originally, he thought that the four seas in Beijing were all dug by hand during the construction of the imperial city during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and they are now available, and their locations and shapes are almost the same.

"It's called Taining Haizi, and it's an old river channel left after the diversion of the Lugou River. Before the Emperor of Jin built the city here, he artificially piled up a small island in the middle of the lake and built the palace on the island. The Jin people like to live by the water, they call the beautiful lake Haizi, the palace is called Taining Palace, and this lake is also called along with the palace. Hearing Hong Tao saying different names in his mouth, and none of them were right, Zhao An felt that Hong Tao's ancestor should have mistransmitted the information about his hometown, and was busy correcting it.

"From today onwards, it will not be called Daning Haizi, but will be divided into four parts from the north, and it will be renamed Jishuitan, Shichahai, Beihai and Zhongnanhai. My yamen was built on the coast of central and southern China, and then I built a city around it! By the way, where is the Taining Palace you are talking about? Hong Tao decided not to look anywhere, and there was no need to build a city according to the location of Beijing City in later generations, so he took Zhongnanhai as the center point of the city and slowly expanded outward. Although it is still a barren place, it is nice to have trees and water. It would be even better if there was another ready-made Jin Dynasty palace to live in.

"Let the Mongols burn ......," Zhao An stretched out his hand and pointed to the north.

"Loser, what you see, what you burn! When Lao Tzu frees his hands one day, I have to rush you to the Arctic Ocean! I looked in the direction of Zhao An's finger, but I didn't see anything. As soon as he remembered that he would have to eat and sleep in the open for a long time to come, Hong Tao felt more bad for the Mongols. The city of Zhongdu was burned, and it can be said that the Jin people resisted desperately and injured many soldiers. A palace is also burned, isn't it full of food!

The place was found, but Hong Tao was not busy building the city, he just asked people to bury a stone tablet on the west bank of Zhongnanhai, with a line engraved on it: Beijing City Center Point. Established on April 7, 1255, Hong Tao!

Now is not the time to build the capital on a large scale, the entire north is in ruins, just repairing canals, new roads, factories, water conservancy facilities is enough for the new court of the Great Song Dynasty and the Jinhe Empire to work for several years, there is no time to make any new cities, there is a Tianjin port as the fulcrum of the north is enough.

At the beginning of May, as the weather warmed up in the north, a fleet of ships frequently appeared in the northwest corner of Bohai Bay like small insects crawling out of the land after being stung, and the destinations were one, the former Zhigu Village, now Tianjin Port.

Most of these long-distance ships came from Guangzhou, Quanzhou and Fuzhou, and they were all private ships of southern maritime merchants, who were the first investors to sign a cooperation agreement with the new government of the Great Song Dynasty, and came here with technology, capital, materials and manpower to follow Hong Tao and try to continue the glory of the former Straits Company.

Hong Tao's reputation is at most a celebrity in the interior of the Great Song Dynasty, but it is still a false name, and no one believes it. But in the southern coastal port cities, it is synonymous with the God of Wealth. Even if this generation of young maritime merchants is not very familiar, their parents will use crutches to drive their children and grandchildren to the north with sufficient resources, and they will not be able to catch up with the fat meat if they go late.

Hong Tao's ability to do business has been mythologized by them, most of the maritime merchants who stayed in the strait company are still alive now, as long as they think about how they made their fortune when they were young, they can't help but want their children and grandchildren to continue to follow Emperor Hong to open up territory. Not to mention that Hong Tao is now the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, even if he is a pirate, these businessmen will not doubt that their investment will be lost.

The rest of the ships were basically from the Golden River Empire, and in later words, these were foreign investors. They have a longer-term vision, and what they care about is not whether they make a fortune or not, but the income after a few years or even more than ten years. Therefore, there is a clear difference between the investment direction of these merchants of the Jinhe Empire and the southern maritime merchants of the Great Song Dynasty, and they basically invest their funds in various infrastructure construction, and the amount of funds is very large.

It's not that Da Song Haishang has no business vision, and they can't see that the long-term benefits of these projects are higher than the short-term, and the reason why they don't dare to invest huge amounts of money in these big projects is, in the final analysis, not at ease. It's not that I don't believe in Hong Tao's ability, but I don't worry about the credit of the Great Song Dynasty.

On the contrary, the merchants from the Golden River Empire did not have this concern, they were used to cooperating with the government in their own country, and they did not feel that there was anything unsafe about cooperating with the government, and everything could not be done according to the contract. The government must also compensate them for their losses if they violate the terms, and as for what to do if the foreign government does not act in accordance with the laws of the Empire, it is easy to go to the Imperial Court to sue them.

As long as the lawsuit can be won, the warships of the Royal Navy will sail over, and this time not only will they have to lose money, but they will also have to compensate the Royal Navy for military expenses. It's okay if you can't afford it, sign an agreement with the Imperial Government, just give up a part of the country's interests, and the Imperial Government will naturally help compensate the Imperial Merchants for the losses. And the reason why the Imperial government is so enthusiastic is not purely to support the inhabitants of the Empire, it will also get a lot of benefits from it. No one suffers, only the government of another country that does not abide by the contract.

(To be continued.) )