[It's always a step late, but it's better to make up for it.] The next time is at night, and the specific time is still not said. 】

The Liao State had many eyes and ears in the Great Song Dynasty.

Because of Liao Xuanzong's Yelu Hongji, as well as the merits of plate armor and thunderbolt artillery, the "Nature" magazine hosted by Han Gang is of course the focus of the spies' attention.

Although "Nature" does not deal with military techniques, many of the contents in it, as long as there is enough understanding, can be cited in military affairs.

Although it is impossible to count them at all, Han Gang is sure that each issue of Nature, as well as the works of scholars such as him, Su Song, and Shen Kuo, who are proficient in the science of nature, have been widely circulated in the Liao Kingdom.

According to the rewards of different aspects, the empirical qi science, due to Yelu Yixin's advocacy, has become a common practice among the Confucian scholars of the Liao State. Compared with the Great Song Dynasty, Qi Xue was still unable to suppress the situation of other schools, and in the Liao Kingdom, Qi was about to wipe out those old-school Confucian students.

Although he couldn't say it, Han Gang was still very happy to see such a situation.

The development of science cannot be confined to one country, and the dissemination of knowledge is far easier than that of commodities. Although the population of Liao is small and the level of education is low, there are also tens of millions of people, among whom there are not a few talents-in another world, hundreds of years later, in the West, how many people will be there-so many scholars are studying together and studying carefully.

There is pressure to be motivated. If Qi Science wants to develop in the Great Song Dynasty, Liao's emphasis on Qi Science must be one of the most weighty weights.

It was with this understanding that when the Liao invaded Japan, taking advantage of the trend caused in Shilin, Han Gang did not hesitate to sell Japan's mineral deposits to the Liao State.

With Han Gang's credit in Liao, coupled with some of the mineral deposits that Japan has now mined, Liaoguo will inevitably put his mind carefully in the mountains. The gold and silver mines that would later give Japan the nickname of the country of gold may soon be discovered.

Once Japan's mineral deposits are really developed, it will not be the Liao State that will benefit.

It is not necessarily a good thing for the poor to get rich.

The silk, cloth, porcelain and other daily necessities and luxury goods of the Great Song Dynasty will continue to flow into the territory of the Liao State, and then the gold and silver in the hands of the Liao State will also flow into the Great Song Dynasty. The lack of hard currency in the country can also be fully supplemented by such trade.

Of course, Song Liao will not only have capital to buy and sell. On the border between the two countries, horse thieves who rob caravans are always indispensable, so how can it be an exception when it comes to the endless sea?

Perhaps ten or twenty years later, a treasure ship full of gold and silver sailed out of the port of Japan and headed for the mainland of Liao, when more than ten days later, the port was in sight, and the crew cheered, several warships with skull flags slowly pierced out of the morning mist, so that the cheers came to an abrupt end.

It's still interesting to think about.

Han Gang did not inform others of his plans. For Wang Hou, he only talked about the content published in Nature as a topic of idle conversation in the idle space of looking for a library site.

Wang Hou is just a strange thing, and he doesn't know how much Qi science is valued in Liao, so he can't think of Liaoguo by the way. That's just academic speculation, and it's not necessarily the right theory.

Next, Wang Hou and Han Gang went to two more proposed sites, but Han Gang couldn't look at them.

One is on the bank of the river, located in the east of the city, on the bank of the Bianhe River. Although it is windy, the terrain is low, and the humidity is also large, which is not good for the collection of books. At the same time, if there is a heavy rain in Beijing, that place will inevitably be flooded.

The other is in the north of the city, the terrain is quite high, but the land is too small, and there are many houses around, so there is no effective firebreak. Especially after the fire in the coal field, everyone is nervous about the prevention of fire. Where the fire hazard is too great, Han Gang does not dare to choose.

Shaking his head and coming out of the third house, Wang Hou sighed: "It's not water, it's fire, it's so difficult to choose a good place." ”

"Buying a house in the capital, someone can run for a year just to choose a location."

"A year?! Isn't he tired? ”

"It's only been a day today, why are you tired?"

"Tired? Yukun, if you want to talk about the time you spend riding a horse every day, you are far from catching up with me. Not to mention horsemanship, even bows and crossbows, guns and sticks, and now you may not be able to win. ”

"I'm not very strong in riding, and my bows, crossbows, guns and sticks are all wild roads, so I can't be considered a skill if you win."

Wang Hou is in the northwest, and his subordinates are all unruly, just relying on Wang Shao and Han Gang to convince people, practice martial arts day and night, and the level has risen sharply. Han Gang won't compare to him.

Wang Hou chuckled, "Today is a visit to Tokyo City." He looked at the endless flow of streets, "Lanzhou doesn't have such a good scenery." ”

Han Gang has been pulling Wang Hou around all afternoon, this is not like he is really planning to find a good address, it is indeed like taking Wang Hou to visit Tokyo.

If he really wanted to choose a suitable location for the big library, he only had to list the requirements one by one and let his subordinates run it, and he didn't need to waste an afternoon of his time.

Wang Hou was much happier than Han Gang's contact feelings, and it was rare to go to Beijing, although Lanzhou can be regarded as prosperous in the northwest, but compared with Jingshi, even the villages in the countryside are not as good.

"If you really like the scenery of the capital, would you like to return to Beijing as an official?"

Wang Hou and Han Gang are friends of life and death, and they have in-laws, if Han Gang is in the position of ruler, of course, it is not convenient to transfer Wang Hou back.

But now that Han Gang has resigned, he is neither an envoy of Xuanhui nor a scholar of the Imperial Palace, and has served as the director of a large library comparable to the palace envoy, and some people have already called him the history of Zhuxia in private - this is the position that Lao Dan once held. However, in fact, it should be the history of the conquest of Tibet, and the history of Zhuxia is the predecessor of the imperial history - but there is not even a yamen.

Without the interference factor of Han Gang, it would not be difficult for Wang Hou to be transferred back to the capital.

Wang Hou frowned and groaned.

"There's no urgency." When Han Gang saw Wang Hou's appearance, he smiled and said, "You can think about it slowly." ”

"Yukun." Wang Hou turned to Han Gang and said in a deep voice: "If you have something that Wang Hou needs to help, just say it, it's no problem to transfer anywhere." ”

Han Gang could hear the meaning of Wang Hou's words, "Do you still want to stay in Longyou?" ”

Wang Hou recalled the past: "When the first monarch asked me to serve as an official in Longxi, I hoped that the Wang family, which could be in the northwest of the town, would be able to produce a Jiangmen family after two or three generations." ”

"But now that Tubo has surrendered, Western Xia has perished, and Wang Sunchen has fought to the Western Regions again. There is only one Liao country left, and the places where the fight will start are still in Hebei and Hedong. ”

"yes." Wang Hou smiled slightly wryly, "Ten years ago, I never imagined that there would be today's situation. Now in Lanzhou, teaching soldiers and horses and inspecting the walled forts are not as much as persuading farmers and workers to come. ”

Wang Sunchen opened up the Western Regions, and there was Ganliang Road in the northwest, and the Xixia Road became Ningxia Road, Lanzhou can no longer be regarded as a border land, but one of the key counties in the northwest, controlling the main road to the Western Regions. The task of trade and commerce is much heavier than that of the military.

"It's too peaceful in the northwest. This will not fall from the sky, it started from Xiangmin Gong to open up the river. Back then, when Xiang Mingong was in the ancient Wei Village, he thought hard about the map, wasn't it just for today? ”

"It's a pity that the ancestors didn't see today." Wang Hou sighed softly, feeling that the atmosphere was a little sunk, and casually pointed to the two houses with no end in the alley not far away, and asked Han Gang with a smile, "Yukun, where is the mansion of the emperor's relatives?" ”

Han Gang also changed the topic and looked over, "Oh, that's the Second Prince's Mansion." ”

"Second Prince's Mansion?"

"The house of the two kings, the three kings. It was originally a Ma Jun teaching workshop, and it was later rebuilt. ”

"The second king of madness?" Wang Hou sneered, "The imperial court is really lenient to him. ”

As he spoke, he glanced over there a few more times. I found that some people were reluctant to stay in front of the two palaces, looking like they were doing business, but in Wang Hou's eyes, there was an indescribable abnormality.

"Finesse?!" Wang Hou's words came out and realized that something was wrong, "...... Who? ”

"People from the official family. Imperial City Division. ”

"Staring all the time?"

"Of course."

Wang Hou pursed his lips, and he didn't know who he was aiming at.

"Most of the emperor's mourning period has passed. Xiaoxiang has passed, and in a few days it will be Daxiang. At that time, there would be more people staring at the two kings and the three kings. ”

"It's been almost twenty days, and it's been so fast. It's a pity that I came back unfortunately, and I can't see the grand scenery of Fan Lou. ”

"Unless you are willing to stay until a hundred years later." Han Gang said with a smile.

The funeral of the Son of Heaven changes to the moon with the day, so the small auspiciousness on the 12th is equivalent to the anniversary sacrifice. And the auspicious day on the 24th is the second anniversary, and in three days, it will be considered the end of the mourning - generally speaking, the three-year mourning is even the beginning and the tail, that is, the early two years are considered three years. There used to be a saying of twenty-five months of mourning, but now it is still twenty-seven months - but after the diary month, the time of the world's abstinence is still as long as 100 days, and this will not change.

"Then you really have to be an official in the capital." Wang Hou also smiled, clamped his legs between the horse's belly, and walked forward.

Han Gang also drove his horse forward, but he glanced back at the two royal residences, with doubts and vigilance in his heart.

Now things are going too well. No matter what you think, the Empress Dowager and the two kings are not the characters of quiet people. Especially the two kings, Zhao Hao, pretended to be crazy. Now that I see an opportunity again, how can I not toss at all? He chose to get well at this time, isn't it just the plan to fight?

But as long as the Queen Mother can be stable, it is useless to toss it. Especially the second king, his reputation is stinky, how can he still fight?

Even if you really want to make any moves, you can't handle it.

Without thinking about it, Han Gang turned around and left.

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"Donglai County Duke, Wang Hou......"

Half a day later, Shi Deyi thought about the latest information sent by his subordinates and fell into deep thought.