Early in the morning of the second day, the morning light was slightly bright, and the east had just revealed the white of the fish's belly. Zhao Dezhao went to the construction site outside the North City Gate with Xiao Guizi and the servant early.

Early in the morning, 10,000 laborers gathered outside the city, and at this moment they were building a concrete road on the construction site. All of them were bare-chested, some of them were carrying sand and gravel on the construction site, some were leveling the land, and some were carrying poles to fill the pits...... And the amount of work required for all of this is indeed enormous.

The construction of the cement road was now an arduous project during the war. The construction of this kind of project is also a test of a country's financial and people's strength, the Great Song Dynasty has only been established for less than six years, from Jianlong to Qiande years, the imperial court has to fight against foreign countries every year, successively with the (northern) Han and Liao wars, and then went south to pacify Nanping, Wuping and (later) Shu regime, the territory of the Great Song Dynasty expanded from the Central Plains to the north of Chenzhou, the territory expanded several times, the number of population households also increased a lot, and the newly incorporated land needs to send soldiers and officials to defend, and naturally have to bear the living problems of the people in the territory.

Now, in accordance with the proposal of the King of Wei, the imperial court has connected the routes from Kaifeng to Jianglingfu, Kaifeng to Yangzhou, Kaifeng to Dengzhou, etc., and countless laborers are needed in various places, and the laborers also have to work and eat, and this time they have to requisition countless grains and grasses from all over the country to provide for them. What the Great Song Dynasty did not do was to build huge fortifications like the Qin Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty in the previous dynasties, but the people were displaced and miserable, and finally the people rebelled and the dynasty collapsed, but on the premise of ensuring the stability of the country and the abundance of the people, it was necessary to ensure the stability of the people and the stability and prosperity of the country, so the welfare of the Great Song Dynasty to these laborers was also the most generous in all dynasties.

These conscripts worked day and night to build the tunnels, and at the same time consumed a lot of food and straw, and now there are other places that are also building concrete tunnels, so that all of a sudden there is a shortage of food.

Nowadays, the staple food of the people of the Great Song Dynasty is rice as the staple food, although there is a claim to be better than the local Champa rice of the Great Song Dynasty, but the Champa rice is not a divine object after all, and it is impossible to make up for this gap in just a few years.

Moreover, roads had to be built in various places, and the imperial court had to train sailors, infantry, and cavalry, and fought against the border countries, and the food was consumed faster.

As for cement, according to Sun Guangxian, there are four cement factories built on several hillsides in the outer city of Gangneung Province, which are forging and firing cement every day to wait for the roadbed to be built and paved before pouring.

Zhao Dezhao traveled from south to north all the way, and all he saw was that the Great Song Dynasty had been preparing to fight against several major separatist forces in the south in recent years.

The Song army was dominated by infantry and cavalry, while to destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty, a naval army was needed, while the Song army was dominated by infantry and cavalry. After the Great Song Dynasty conquered Nanping and Wuping, it built large warships in Jing and Hu, trained naval forces day and night, and transported grain from all over the country to hoard it for material strategy.

According to Zhao Kuangyin's phalanx, there are now three countries left in the south (Southern Han, Southern Tang, Wu Yue) and one region (Quannan Chen Hongjin), and now the Southern Han Dynasty is surrendered, and now the opponent of the Great Song Dynasty is only Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Chen Hongjin of Quanzhou, and Qian Hongyu of Wu Yue are not afraid.

Now only after the completion of the basic training of the Song army's navy, can the attack on the (southern) Tang Dynasty be officially launched, and on the riverside of Jiangling Prefecture, many ports and wharves have also been built for warships to dock, and the dock is also stepping up the construction of large warships, so that the Song Dynasty soldiers can train the navy day and night.

He thought about it for a while, and saw that the laborers on the construction site were still working, so he and Xiao Guizi watched for a while, and walked on the way back to the mansion.

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Halfway up the road, there was a person looking around, this person was wearing a plain and light blue robe, it was a secret agent of Changchun Hall, his name was Cai Ruhua, a name that people owe to beat. At this moment, when he saw his young master, he immediately pretended to cough a few times, and Zhao Dezhao also understood this meaning, so he went to an inaccessible street, and the two met later.

"Young master, news from the direction of Yangzhou: there have been ships returning from the Americas." Cai Ruhua said half a sentence, then took out two letters from the cuffs and pockets of her clothes, "Young master, please take a look!" ”

Americas? Ship? It seemed that all this was very useful to Zhao Dezhao, he looked around, this is in the alley, he always feels that it is not safe here, and the letter is not easy to open so casually, he said: "Go to the other side of the street on the slate." ”

Then Cai Ruhua led Zhao Dezhao and Xiao Guizi to the end of Banshi Street in the east of the city.

The three of them have arrived in an alley on Banshi Street, Zhao Dezhao raised his eyes and saw that this was an ordinary courtyard, and there were usually no passers-by in the alley on the outer wall, but it was very calm and hidden, and this was also the new stronghold of Changchun Hall in Jiangling Mansion, Zhao Dezhao also reported from Yang Ming that this stronghold on Banshi Street in the east of the city was also his first time.

Cai Ruhua knocked on the door three times, and then footsteps came out from inside, and then the door opened, and a thief poked out a bald head, he saw Cai Ruhua followed by two people, and said: "Ruhua, who is that?" ”

Cai Ruhua leaned into the bald man's ear and whispered. The bald man looked embarrassed after hearing this, showed an apologetic face, opened the door without thinking, bowed his hand and said: "Fang Canghai of Jiangling Mansion in Changchun Hall has seen the young master, so he has lost his welcome, and I ask the young master to forgive me!" ”

Zhao Dezhao shook his hand and said with a smile: "Canghai, you have done a good job, as a secret agent, it is naturally better to be cautious." ”

Fang Canghai saw that the young master didn't blame him, and saw that the outside was not a place for discussion, so he looked around and said, "Young master, it's inconvenient outside, it's still talking inside." Fang Canghai bowed again and sent Zhao Dezhao and the others into the door.

Zhao Dezhao saw that the living room inside was ordinary, like an ordinary northern courtyard, and said in his heart: This place is secluded.

Entering the hall, Zhao Dezhao immediately chose the upper seat and sat down, Fang Canghai and Cai Ruhua stood aside, listening to Zhao Dezhao's lecture, and the little nobleman stood behind Zhao Dezhao and waited.

Zhao Dezhao crossed Erlang's legs, took out the letter and read it, the letter roughly said that Wu Xiaowu's fleet has several ships returning from that place in the Americas, and the ships also carried some potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other seeds from the Americas, this letter was written from Yangzhou Changchun Hall.

Zhao Dezhao opened another letter, which was Wu Xiaowu's letter from the Americas.

In the letter, Wu Xiaowu said that wherever they went, as Zhao Dezhao said, now they have opened up a lot of places over there, opened slopes to grow grain, and built a lot of houses. Wu Xiaowu also joked in the letter, they also tried to plant the food that the prince said, the kind of small piece that went down, and when it was dug out in the autumn, it was bigger than his fist, and Wu Xiaowu also said that the first time he ate this kind of food, it tasted very good...... In addition to these, Wu Xiaowu and the others also discovered gold and other mineral deposits on the other side of the Americas, and the craftsmen and people they sent were also engaged in mining......

I didn't expect Wu Xiaowu to bring these seeds, Zhao Dezhao couldn't wait to see these seeds immediately, but he is now in Jiangling Mansion, and he will return to Kaifeng in a few days, maybe in another half a month and twenty days, the sea ships of Wu Xiaowu's fleet can arrive in the capital, and when the weather is warm or suitable or a greenhouse is opened on the Wei Palace, he can start trial planting, and he can't wait to return to Beijing at this moment.

At this moment, there seems to be a large number of green fields in front of Zhao Dezhao, and the golden corn in the sky is shining brightly in the sunset, and some people are smiling from ear to ear and breaking corn cobs in the cornfield, with bright smiles like chrysanthemums.

Zhao Dezhao only knew about the affairs in the Americas from Wu Xiaowu's letter, but he still didn't know the situation and didn't know the other camels and whispers...... What happened to them.

Wu Xiaowu's delivery this time was inadvertently good news.

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In the southern hemisphere, in the distance of the blue ocean beach, the waves rise and fall on the beach, and several children are playing on the beach, and beside them are a few women, these children are the first citizens born on this continent, they do not know what kind of land is there in the Great Song Dynasty, and the children have been here since birth.

This will be the city of Sydney in Australia in the future, but because of the intrusion of the passing guests, there will be no Sydney in the future, and it will become a prosperous capital of the Great Song Dynasty overseas.

This future city, now has been sporadically built some houses, although a thousand years later must be relatively small, evacuated, but also a small development, the Great Song Dynasty southward immigrants to open up the wasteland, is also a pioneer, a progress.

According to Zhao Dezhao, the prairie can be set on fire after the stars, and this is the reason now.

And in a valley a little farther away, many people from the Great Song Dynasty who fled the famine were working hard...... Whispering is standing in a great position on the cliff, overlooking the scenery below. When their fleet first arrived, it was a wasteland, but now they have established a stronghold here through the hands of these people.

Whispering was holding a clairvoyant mirror at this moment, at this time the west wind blew and swept his hair bun, he looked at the northern hemisphere, and saw many big ships docked in the harbor, he was also thinking about the land of the Great Song Dynasty, it seemed that he had to send some people back to the Great Song Dynasty.

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Madagascar, a large island. The climate here is quite different, in the east belongs to the tropical rainforest climate, hot and humid all year round, the annual precipitation reaches 2000-3800 mm, and the average annual temperature is about 24 °C; The central plateau belongs to the tropical plateau climate, the climate is mild, the annual precipitation is 1000-2000 mm, the average annual temperature is about 18 °C; The western part is on the leeward side, with less precipitation and a savannah climate, with an annual precipitation of 600-1000 mm and an average annual temperature of about 26.6 °C, while the southern region has a semi-arid climate with annual precipitation of less than 600 mm and an average annual temperature of about 25.4 °C. Due to the influence of the monsoon, the dry season is from April to October and the rainy season is from November to March.

Deep in the rainforest on the east coast, there is a village where many men in short shirts are coming out, the first of whom has a thick beard on his chin, and he wears shorts and shorts, because he has to adapt to the hot climate. Moreover, the camel grew up in Persia since he was a child, and he is not a Han Chinese, but a Hu from the Western Regions and a mixed-race child.

In the past few years, he has become involved with the local indigenous people and the Arabs from outside, and has also adapted to the life here, and the people of the Great Song Dynasty who went south also worked hard here, built houses, and developed minerals......

Today, the camel had a thought in his heart, he planned to go back, but he didn't know how many people would be stationed here.

At this moment, he had a thick curly short hair on his head, and he was looking at several men in front of him, and several of them also had the same head as the camel, wearing the same short clothes, and the camel was saying: "My sons and daughters of the Great Song Dynasty, now I have been away from the Great Song Dynasty for several years, and I am about to go back at this moment, if you are willing to go back, please stand on the left side, and stand on the right side if you are unwilling." ”

After a while, half on the left and half on the right, the camel said to the left: "We will leave here in three days, and the rest will stay here and wait for our return!" ”

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Deep in the ocean, two fleets are returning along the same course as they came.

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Far away in Jiangning Mansion, Tang Guo Gong Shenyi and others have also arrived in Jinling City.

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