(Thank you He Wuyong, Wen Zuo Sanshao, the third brother is not calm, the crimson lantern, the patrol Tianhe, and Van Getel's reward~)

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Half a month ago, on the 24th of October, on the shore of the East China Sea, thousands of miles away, a city by the sea was uprooted, surrounded by thorn trees, and the city wall here was eight feet high and twenty miles in circumference. After that, it will be praised as "the world's largest port" by the world-famous traveler Marco Polo in the Middle Ages, which is Quanzhou.

Quanzhou is close to the East China Sea, the climate is pleasant, the northwest wind blows, only feel a trace of coolness.

In the mansion of the Qingyuan Jiedu envoy of the Tang Kingdom in Quanzhou, an old man in his fifties was dressed in an official uniform, and he hurried back to the mansion, and then as soon as he entered the door, he took off his official uniform, changed into ordinary cloth clothes, and shouted: "Old Liutou, bring water-"

"Yes, sir!" The servant turned around and went to fetch water, which usually the old man had to tell him to drink at this time of the day.

"Master, drink slowly!"

The old man took the water from the servant's hand, and without waiting for the old man to finish speaking, he took a sip of the water, which was sweet and sweet, and then he suddenly felt tired all over his body, and it was very pleasant.

The old man asked, "Old six, what's going on in the house today?" ”

"Master, don't drive Huang Yu Xihuang today, Lord Huang has already set off from Quanzhou, went north to the Central Plains, and met the emperor of Song Kingdom!"

The old man nodded as he listened, and replied lightly, "Oh! That's good! I believe he should be able to reach Kaifeng in December! ”

At this moment, the old man thought in his heart, now the Tang State has moved its capital to Hongzhou, renamed Hongdu, and Hongdu is close to Quanzhou, he thinks that this is a sign that Li Jing, the lord of the Tang State, wants to attack his Quanzhou, and Quanzhou and Nanzhou [Li Jing changed Zhangzhou to Nanzhou] under his jurisdiction, and now it has been fifteen spring and autumn periods, and Quanzhou, which was in civil strife, is now living and working in peace and contentment, and he is very proud.

And the two states of Quannan, although nominally under the jurisdiction of the Tang State, but secretly the master of Quanzhou and Nanzhou is him-stay and follow.

Since accepting the two states of Quannan, he was named the envoy of Qingyuan Festival and the observer of Quannan and other states by Li Jing [Later, he was awarded the Tongping Zhangshi and the Zhongshu Order, and was named the Duke of Hubei and the King of Jinjiang]. He has been mediating between the Zhou State and the Tang State, surviving in the cracks. In the battle of Huainan, Li Jing did not listen to his words, and lost the fourteen states in the north of the Yangtze River, and then stayed in order to protect the territory and the people, so he wrote a table with silk, hidden in the leather belt, and sent the government to disguise Cai Zhongyun and others as merchants, through Hubei, and secretly sent an envoy to Kaifeng to express his sincerity to Zhou Shizong Guo Rong. Now that the Great Song Dynasty was established, he sent people to Kaifeng to congratulate Zhao Kuangyin, the new son of heaven.

Liu Congxiao asked the servant again: "How is it over there in Tang Kingdom?" ”

"Tang Guo Li Jing is still the same as before to the master!"

"Oh, that's good!" The old man replied lightly, everything is in his expectations, in the cracks to survive should please others, but Quannan Erzhou hangs in the east of Fujian, adjacent to the coast of the East China Sea, there are many mountains and few places, the people mainly go out to sea to fish, but there are many ports in Quannan, the maritime business is developed, and the taxes of Quannan Erzhou are mostly taken from here.

If we want to develop, we must have good relations with other countries around us.

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It's the 4th of November, the wind is shining, and the temperature is starting to drop.

At night, in the Sizhou Mansion, Zhao Dezhao sat under the lamp, and the bean-sized candle swayed gently with the wind, flickering his figure, and then the northwest wind blew very strongly, almost blowing out the flames.

Zhao Dezhao closed the doors and windows and wandered alone. And in his mind, he was still thinking about yesterday's events, yesterday was really a thousand moments, and today he didn't expect to give the Flying Sparrow Organization to the Luomen, which he didn't expect.

Zhao Dezhao is the eldest son of the Great Song Emperor on the surface, and it is difficult to meddle in the affairs of the court, but he is confident that with the help of the Flying Bird Organization, the resistance will be much smaller, and secretly he can supervise various places through the Changchun Hall and the Flying Bird Organization, and eliminate his enemies in secret.

As long as there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and there must always be tools to make a living when walking on the rivers and lakes, so Changchun Hall and Flying Sparrow are naturally his tools.

However, now that the Great Song Dynasty has been established, the world is divided, and it is necessary to deal with the surrounding situation, at least to cause harm to the Great Song Dynasty, and to solve the crisis to solve the Liao State, but this matter must be discussed in the long run.

And Zhao Dezhao in the south thinks that it is a simple matter for the Great Song Dynasty to destroy these countries, after all, in history, all these countries were destroyed or attached to the Great Song Dynasty.

And in the next few years, he will go through the Great Song Dynasty, after all, people have long-term worries and near-term worries.

Now he is concerned about education and some economic and cultural things, for the military, he is temporarily out of reach, and the military of the Great Song Dynasty is still in the hands of his father's brothers, and his father will engage in a "glass of wine to release military power" next year.

Zhao Kuangyin adopted Zhao Pu's strategy, strengthened the centralization of power, gently deprived the generals of their military rights, did not kill the meritorious generals, and avoided other generals from staging the "yellow robe", which was conducive to ending the situation of chaos among the generals of the five dynasties and ten countries, and avoided the turmoil of the regime. However, in the future, he disagreed with letting the people lose their blood in their bones, become slaves, and let the tragedy happen, but for spending a few years in the military academy in later generations, he thought that his own set was effective.

Now that it is winter, the temperature has plummeted, the days are shorter, and the Bianhe River freezes from time to time, so he has to return to Kaifeng before the canal freezes.

He has not returned to Beijing for more than half a year, and the task of inspecting Huainan has almost been completed, so he can return to Beijing as soon as possible, so he asked his subordinates to send a letter, and he will play the affairs of Huainan and prepare to return home. The next day, I stayed in Sizhou City for another day.

In the early morning of November 6, the northwest wind stopped, and the temperature plummeted a lot.

And last night, Wu Yongzi left a book, bid farewell to Zhao Dezhao and the others, and said goodbye to Zhao Dezhao early this morning, Zhao Dezhao saw Wu Yongzi's letter, which said that when Wu Yongzi traveled the world, he also helped Zhao Dezhao secretly search for talents.

Zhao Dezhao said silently: "Wuyongzi, you must take care of your body!" Then let the people of the Sparrows secretly protect Wuyongzi.

"Haha! I have always loved mountains and rivers, and this great river and mountain must be traveled all over this life. ”

Sizhou City is full of ditches, boats shuttle back and forth, and many buildings are built near the water. Last night, Wu Yongzi rented a boat, went out of Sizhou, and continued to travel south, secretly looking for the talents that Zhao Dezhao needed, and left his apprentice Wu Xiaowu to accompany Zhao Dezhao back to Beijing.

On November 6, after hearing that Qincha had returned to Beijing, local Sizhou officials and people bid farewell to Qincha at the Sizhou wharf. Zhao Dezhao and his entourage reluctantly got on the boat under the farewell of the officials and people of Sizhou, and then the big ship started, and Sizhou City disappeared from sight little by little.

Along the way, large ships came and went, and the waterline of thousands of pounds of ships was very low, and all these grains were sent to Kaifeng, which was hundreds of miles away, through Bianshui.

A day later, Zhao Dezhao's ship docked in Suzhou, forty miles away.

For more than 1,000 years, Suzhou has been the seat of government of successive dynasties. Since ancient times, soldiers have to fight, and "choking the throat of water, when the north and the south must rush" is "the way of a hundred battles". At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang unveiled the uprising here, the Chu Han and Chu Han fought each other, the battle of Qixia, and the ancient tragedy of the overlord Farewell Concubine was sung here. In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, Pang Xun led the Huaibei soldiers in Yunnan to revolt, returned to his hometown, trapped the soldiers in the city, fought for several decades, and left traces of blood on the history scrolls.

Tonight, the group temporarily rested in Suzhou for a day, and the ship will continue to depart tomorrow.

On the Bianhe River, there are still some boats coming and going, and they run through the Central Plains and the Huai River basin.

In the middle of the night, Zhao Dezhao walked out of the cabin and watched the night at the bow of the ship, the wind was a little strong tonight, and he felt cold even when he put on a cloak.

And he was worried about the safety of the boat, but fortunately, this channel was very stable, and there were no ringing horses around, otherwise it would not be good for his tree to attract wind and become the knife edge meat of the ringing horses.

And now he was looking far away, the boat was breaking and the wind was howling, he threw down the brim of his hat, wrapped himself in a cloak, and looked back, and there was still the ship behind him!

At first glance, the ship did not seem to be its own ship, and it was not a ship carrying grain, although the ship was ordinary, it looked like a sea ship.

Because from the point of view of common sense, the volume of the general grain ship is very large, and the cabin is mostly flat-bottomed, and the following ship is suspected to be a ship at sea, although the volume is not large, but from the structure it seems that this is not ordinary with the ships traveling in the river, Zhao Dezhao has seen all kinds of ships, and he can see at a glance that this ship comes from the sea.

It's just that I don't know who the owner of the ship is, and since it left Sizhou, the ship has been following behind, and then Zhao Dezhao instructed Zhao Xin in the cabin to stare at the "strange" ship behind.

And at this moment, on that ship, a middle-aged man, was sleeping in the boat, and the wind blew through the door curtain, and the bell on the ship rang, he opened his eyes, looked around, and he found that everything was just the wind.

And he shook his head, on October 24, he set out all the way from Quanzhou, along the sea route, and then had to enter the mouth of the Yangtze River, because at this moment the Bohai Sea in the north has been frozen, and ships cannot enter the waterway, so he changed to the inland river, along the former ditch, through the river into Guazhou, and then into Bianshui.

This followed Zhao Dezhao and them, and after Zhao Xin obeyed the order, he waited outside the ship until dawn, and then the wind finally stopped.

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Tokyo Kaifeng [Kaifeng Prefecture has jurisdiction over 16 counties (Kaifeng, Xiangfu, Weishi, Chenliu, Yongqiu, Fengqiu, Zhongmu, Yangwu, Yanjin, Changyuan, Dongming, Fugou, Yanling, Kaocheng, Taikang, Xianping), Xiangfu (formerly Junyi County), Kaifeng two counties are still attached to Guo County] a cold, the leaves are withered, if it is not for the supply of honeycomb coal from the Sun family's coal, I am afraid it will be colder than before, and since the honeycomb coal came out, the Kaifeng city has used the Sun family's charcoal, and the Liu family's charcoal shop business has lost a lot, but there is no resentmentAfter all, the person who cooperated with the Sun family charcoal shop at the beginning is now the eldest son of the famous son of today, Zhao Dezhao, the king of Liangjun, and the Liu family also heard the news of Zhao Dezhao from many ways, and in just a few years, Guangwei Group stood in Kaifeng, Luoyang and Yangzhou City, but what they didn't know was that there was also one in the West Mansion of Wuyue Kingdom.

And the owner of the Liu family is not discouraged, on the contrary, he thinks that Zhao Dezhao may have greater movements in the future, so if he takes the fast ship of King Liang Junwang in the future, his Liu family's business will also flourish, and if he becomes an imperial businessman, his Liu family will soar.

So as soon as he thought of this, his Liu Fang's eyes were full of money, and he imagined that one day, the Liu family would be rich in the Great Song Dynasty.