In December of the second year of Jianlong, the imperial court received the news that Li Jixun defeated the Han army, captured the Liaozhou assassin Fu Tingyan, and Fu Yanxun came to offer, and the entire court was extremely confident in the military strength of the Great Song Dynasty.

As for the situation in the northwest that was considered earlier, the Great Song Dynasty was unable to take care of the northwest, so now it can only adopt a policy of Huairou to win over the various ethnic groups in the northwest and the Cao regime of the Guiyi Army, and now the next step of the Great Song Dynasty is the Jiangnan states, and the general trend in the northwest only needs to remain stable. In order to stabilize the situation in the northwest, the Great Song Dynasty could adopt an active foreign policy in the northwest region.

A few days later, on the fifth day of the first month of December, a large amount of grain was transported from Jianghuai and other places into Beijing, and Zhao Kuangyin ordered a new river warehouse to be built near Kaifeng with cement for grain storage.

And at the end of the month, the officials of the Great Song Honglu Temple who returned from Champa carried a large number of items brought from Champa. Among them, Zhao Dezhao found lemonamine, meat * bean * carda, cinchona cream and other medicinal plants and miscanthus oil crops citronella.

On the day after the officials of Honglu Temple returned to Beijing, the fleet led by Wan Song and others had also returned to Kaifeng and disembarked at the Bianshui Wharf, and this time he returned to Beijing to report on his work, and also brought good news to Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Dezhao and hundreds of officials in the DPRK and China, Wan Song reported the situation of immigrants in Liuzhou, Zhao Kuangyin heard that Liuzhou had developed rapidly from a wild place, and also brought some ores, tropical fruits and other resources from Liuzhou, so he also promoted Wan Song's official position.

For Liuzhou, all the officials of the imperial court think that this place is a treasure island, not to mention rich resources, and according to the words of King Liang, Liuzhou's strategy is also very unique, at the beginning some officials who were deeply influenced by Confucianism thought that Liuzhou was not of much use, and this year's newly established Liuzhou, in just one year has developed so rapidly, but also these officials were dumbfounded, and the original misinterpretation of Zhao Dezhao's intentions was ashamed, and also did self-reflection.

In a blink of an eye, at the end of the year, the Great Song Dynasty was really smooth this year, and the Great Song Dynasty of the second year of the founding of the People's Republic of China also showed a new attitude, and the income reported by the Ministry of Household this year has increased a lot compared with the first year of Jianlong, because of the establishment of glass, cement, soap and the establishment of the Quanzhou Special City Division, the income of the imperial court has increased a lot, and the officials of the household department are smiling at the moment, and when he reports that the emperor is completed, the hundred officials who sit down let out a sound of exclamation.

After that, the Privy Council, Kaifeng Mansion and other imperial court departments began to report some major events in the second year of Jianlong at the end of the year.

At the court meeting, the ministers summarized several major events of the year. In the second year of Jianlong, the major events that caused a sensation in the imperial court were: first, the construction of cement factories, the construction of roads, city defense, etc.; the second is the invention of artillery, black * gunpowder and other materials, which helped the Song army in the war to a certain extent; Third, the Champa rice planted by the imperial court outside the city and outside the Guanjia Hall was also harvested more than the local rice; Fourth, the military academy students opened outside the city have been training for several months, and in just a few months, the emperor inspected it twice, thinking that the military academy is a new thing, which will be very beneficial to the Great Song Dynasty in the future, and will also make up for the lack of experienced generals in the court in peacetime, while Zhao Dezhao is secretly complacent on the side, and the effectiveness of these military cadets in the future is not only that; Fifth, the construction of the dock accelerated the speed of shipbuilding in the Great Song Dynasty and contributed a lot to the maritime undertakings of the Great Song Dynasty; Sixth, the imperial court built Liuzhou and opened up Liuzhou, overall, these six things still had a huge impact on the Great Song Dynasty, and other things were sometimes beneficial.

On the temple, all the ministers turned their eyes and looked at Zhao Dezhao, the king of Liang, and Zhao Dezhao was also stunned by the sudden gaze. He was sitting in a precarious position, sitting among the hundred officials, and Emperor Zhao Kuangyin also glanced at his son, and smiled at the corner of his mouth.

And Zhao Guangyi, who was the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion at the time, turned his head, and Yu Guang caught a glimpse of his nephew, but his heart was jealous and resentful. In the construction of Kaifeng, from time to time to help build roads, widen roads and other construction of housing facilities, but from beginning to end, no one has ever patted a sycophant, never received a word of praise, and the hundred officials in the court and the central government all look at Liang Wang Chitose with blue eyes, and Kaifeng Mansion Yin They completely automatically ignore his existence.

He pretended to cough above the court, but it was useless, the eyes of those courtiers were still looking at Zhao Dezhao.

Zhao Dezhao also saw the emperor's uncle Zhao Guangyi with his spare light, he said in his heart that he wouldn't, this pit people's eyes, and he didn't seem to offend his uncle, why did he look at himself a little unkindly.

Forget it, that's it. Anyway, this era will always be dominated by itself, and the regrets of the past must be compensated.

The last court meeting in the second year of Jianlong ended, and soon ushered in the first month of the great court meeting, which is now the third year of Jianlong (962).

At the New Year's meeting, Zhao Kuangyin began to ask Baiguan to formulate a plan for Jianlong for three years, and according to the achievements made last year, Zhao Kuangyin intends to make up for last year's regrets this year.

A few months passed, and in the spring of the third year of Jianlong, the imperial court began to vigorously promote the cultivation of Champa rice in Jianghuai and other places, and in Liuzhou, Champa rice was sown in two seasons a year.

Liuzhou is now under planning, from the second year of Jianlong to the third year of Jianlong, the immigrants from the mainland to Liuzhou have been coming one after another, and there are about 70,000 people, and the population is mainly concentrated in the northern Keelung and Taipei Prefectures, and the southeast, central and southern parts have not yet been developed.

In the spring of the third year of Jianlong, the ships sent by the imperial court passed through the west coast of Liuqiu Island, where the beach was straight, the terrain was gently sloping, and the sunshine was abundant. Under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, several salt farms have been opened one after another, the largest of which is the Jianlong Salt Farm (named by local officials, which is the Budai Salt Farm in later generations), and there are other large and small salt farms, ranging from Lukang south of Da Belly River to Wushulin near Kaohsiung.

After the opening of the salt works, these salt farms also brought a lot of benefits to the development of the salt industry in the Great Song Dynasty, in addition, with the establishment of diplomatic relations between Southeast Asian countries and the Great Song Dynasty.

Ships from Southeast Asian countries such as Champa and Sriwijaya also began to trade on the island, and merchants from those countries began to settle down on the island, set up shops, and began to mingle with the Liuzhou immigrants.

In order to manage merchants from different countries, local officials also began to apply to the imperial court for Liuzhou to be the exclusive city of the city, under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and then the imperial court received the Liuzhou officials to play a note, after the imperial court resolution, Zhao Kuangyin then ordered the west coast of Liuzhou, the opening of the city of the city, the collection of commercial taxes, for the imperial court to pay taxes for expenditure. Liuzhou officially became the second city in the Great Song Dynasty.

In addition, the geographical location of Liuqiu Island has always been concerned by Zhao Dezhao, in later generations Liuqiu Island (Taiwan Island) north to Japan, South Korea, south of the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and other Southeast Asia, South Asia and other countries, is also an important transit station in the western Pacific Ocean, and can radiate to the entire Pacific region.

Now, Zhao Dezhao believes that in order to open up a sea transportation line from Fusang to Srivijayaya, the imperial court should have built several seaports on Liuqiu Island, all of which were built of cement.

And Zhao Kuangyin used a lot of strategic materials because he wanted to pacify the countries south of the Yangtze River, and from the sea, close to the southeast coast, ships could also be replenished. Therefore, after careful consideration, Zhao Kuangyin ordered to dispatch government-run shipyards from all over the territory to transfer manpower to Liuqiu Island to build dockyards, cement factories and various ships.

The construction of these shipyards also helped a lot for the development of the navigation industry of the Great Song Dynasty, and after the completion of these shipyards, they could provide many ships for the Great Song Dynasty naval army and civil commercial exchanges.

With the increase of ships, it also helped the development of the transportation industry, and the salt, iron, gold, copper and other things of Liuzhou were transported to the Great Song Dynasty by sea, and then the Great Song Dynasty sent 10,000 people to Liuzhou, mainly to open up the southeast and central part of Liuqiu Island.

Privately, Zhao Dezhao also sent a fleet, this time to build houses, transportation roads, ports and other infrastructure on Liuqiu Island, and to plant rice, tea, sugarcane, soybeans, jute, sisal, bananas, pineapples, lychees, longans, mangoes, olives, etc., and to plant trees such as tung trees, rubber trees, sumacs, camphor, etc., and to plant citratorin, meat*bean*cardamom, cinchonam and other medicinal plants and mango oil crops such as citronella brought from Champa State.

This time, this fleet planned to bring a total of 4,000 shipbuilding craftsmen, shipbuilders, laborers, road builders, construction workers, farmers, etc., all of which were used for the construction of Liuzhou, the most secret of which was that Zhao Dezhao sent a hundred henchmen craftsmen to make black * gunpowder, artillery and other military supplies, and on Liuqiu Island.

And Liuqiu Island is like an experimental site, a base, where Zhao Dezhao's many efforts are gathered, and Zhao Dezhao built it according to the memories of later generations.

In addition to Liuqiu, on the eastern sea, you can also see the distant place from Liuqiu Island on a sunny day, there are some archipelagos, called the Ryukyu Islands, because of its special geographical location, it is the sea passage connecting Fuso and the Great Song Dynasty, and is known as the transit point of trade in Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia, and the trade is developed, and it is known as "Wanguo Jinliang" in later generations. It is also the place where Zhao Dezhao dreamed of planning the Great Song Naval Base.

In the northern part of the Ryukyus, it is the country of Japan in the Heian period today, and the Song people called it Fuso or Toei, and the historical records record that it was called Japan after the Tang Dynasty.

However, for this country, Zhao Dezhao can only hehe, and according to historical records, in the tenth century AD, during the Heian period of Japan, the samurai rebellion, and then the rise of the source and Ping clans, chaos gathered, so it was a good time for Zhao Dezhao.

And on the island of Taiwan, now called the south of Liuqiu Island, there is another place, where gold is abundant and the products are abundant. Historically, since the Song and Yuan dynasties, Chinese merchant ships often came here to trade, the Ming Dynasty called Luzon, later generations for the Philippines, but also an important fulcrum of Zhao Dezhao's maritime strategy.

According to the records of the Foreign Records of the Wu Period, the earliest national power to reach the Philippine Islands was the Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China. In 226 AD, Xuanhua of Eastern Wu engaged Zhu Ying and Zhonglang Kangtai to patrol Southeast Asia, and arrived in Vietnam, Cambodia and the Nanyang Islands, as well as Chenyan, Tamlan and Dubo in the present-day Philippines. Today, on the island of Luzon, it should be the period of the clan system, and the state has not yet appeared.

Zhao Dezhao thought about it and fell asleep.