Dingniang didn't allow the concubines to sleep last night, I don't know how Cheng Yue slept well, so I went to the bedroom early to take a look, but I didn't find Cheng Yue, and thought that he must be in the room of which concubine's room, and looked for it one by one, but I didn't find it, so I found the study, and sure enough, I saw Cheng Yue sleeping soundly on the big bed in the study.

Ding Niang smiled, took off her shoes and went to bed, and hid in Cheng Yue's arms. Cheng Yue dimly felt that someone, no matter who it was, hugged him and went to sleep comfortably, until Mrs. Song came to call them for breakfast.

Mrs. Song didn't dare to look at Cheng Yue's eyes, but Cheng Yue didn't let her go, and secretly touched her ass several times on the way to the dining room, which made Mrs. Song's face red, so she had to find an opportunity to look at Cheng Yue with pleading eyes, and Cheng Yue stopped stretching out her hand.

After breakfast, Cheng Yue returned to the study, and after not writing for a while, Mrs. Song came to report, and Lu Xiufu asked to see him.

Cheng Yue ordered a servant woman to invite Lu Xiufu in, and he seized the time to warm up with Mrs. Song for a while, and only let go when he heard Lu Xiufu's footsteps.

Lu Xiufu hurriedly entered, and he came today to ask for something important. After entering the study, the beautiful Mrs. Song served tea and withdrew.

Cheng Yue saw that Lu Xiufu was a little anxious, and said, "What's the matter?" Is there news on the Japanese side or is something wrong with the small country in the south? ”

Lu Xiufu looked at Cheng Yue's relaxed face, and said with a wry smile: "Governor, you can worry more about this matter in the court." Just now, the Ministry of Rites received a report that the small southern countries heard that the Metropolitan Governor had plans to conquer them, and gathered together, and the envoys of a dozen countries were about to arrive in Lin'an, and the two saints did not know what to do, so they sent me to find the Metropolitan Governor.

Cheng Yue frowned and said, "Didn't I say it?" The court just put the blame on me. Just let them come to me. What else should I do? ”

Lu Xiufu sighed: "How can those countries be so obedient. I listened to the advance man of the legations. They refused to talk to the governor of the capital, so they looked for the imperial court, saying that the governor was an official of the Great Song Dynasty, and there was no reason not to find the imperial court to find the governor of the capital, what do you think? ”

Cheng Yue laughed and said: "These guys are really not stupid, it's okay, when they come, I will also go to court." Solve this trouble for the imperial court, if it doesn't make sense, then don't talk about it, the imperial court always wants to put on a high-sounding appearance, it's really boring. ”

Lu Xiufu said helplessly: "Governor, how can there be any excuse to conquer other countries?" Teachers must always be famous, right? The imperial court also had difficulties. ”

Cheng Yue smiled: "Why is there no excuse? If you want to add sin, why is there no word? Why do so many ministers in the DPRK who are good at fabricating charges still want me to come out? Infighting, infighting, and outwards, can you just do it? Okay, look at mine. When will they arrive? ”

Lu Xiufu said: "There will be less than three days to come, and everything depends on the Grand Duke." ”

Cheng Yue nodded. He asked, "How's going on in Japan?" When are you leaving? ”

Lu Xiufu said: "After dealing with this matter, I will set off, if I can't come back from this trip, the metropolitan governor will avenge me." ”

Cheng Yue waved his hand and said: "The Japanese don't dare to kill you and won't kill you, you will definitely come back well." Although you are now an official of the imperial court, I will entrust you with important tasks in the future, and I will not let you go to danger easily, you can rest assured. ”

Lu Xiufu was stunned for a moment, and blurted out: "The Metropolitan Governor wants to recruit me?" ”

Cheng Yue said: "As long as it is a talent, the more the merrier, and talents like you are even rarer." Do you think you can spread it out in the DPRK? If you can't, if you still want to do a big career, you can learn from Yang Liangjie and come to me to take on a part-time job. In the future, I will employ more and more people, not only you, but also those who are talented in the court. But there's no urgency, you can think about it first and wait until you come back from Japan. ”

Lu Xiufu's heart fluctuated, and he was in a dilemma. He had to admit that Cheng Yue's admiration for him made him very happy and had a great sense of knowledge. He was actually not happy in the court, and his relationship with Cheng Yue was very harmonious, so it was logical to join the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and he must have a bright future. But he really wants to give up the Great Song Dynasty, and he is unwilling, alas, let's talk about this later. If it doesn't work, it's better to really come here and take on a part-time job first.

Cheng Yue sent Lu Xiufu away and called Yang Ting to discuss with him for a while. The intelligence network in the south should be set up as soon as possible, in case those small countries strike first and suddenly break out into war, so that they can be caught off guard.

As soon as Yang Ting left, the envoy sent by Liu Shun arrived again. Because of Cheng Yue's direct guidance, Liu Shun's work on the development of yellow powder went extremely smoothly, and small-scale trial production began. With explosives, the efficiency of building mountain roads can be increased by dozens of times, and the manufacture of string grenades and mines can begin (prototypes of these two weapons already existed in the Song Dynasty). The difficult thing is that guns, especially in the barrel, have to be rifled, and after carving, they must be kept flat and hard, this technique is too difficult for now. Although Cheng Yue has given them the design drawings of specific tools, it involves the mastery of a series of manufacturing technologies, which cannot be achieved overnight.

Cheng Yue checked the gunpowder sample sent by Liu Shun, which was almost the same as the TNT explosives of later generations, and was very satisfied. He wrote a letter back to Liu Shun, greatly praised him, told him to store and transport explosives, and asked him to send a large number of explosives to repair roads as soon as possible, and to be careful not to leak secrets.

The production of explosives has cross-era significance, but unfortunately Cheng Yue can't make a big deal of it, so he can only call Mrs. Luo and Mrs. Song over and celebrate happily on the bed in the study. The two ladies were tossed by Cheng Yue last night, but they knew the taste of the marrow, and they lingered with Cheng Yue for a long time before they took some manuscripts and pretended to leave.

Yang Ting came to see him again the next day, and brought two people who were tied up and blindfolded. It was the spies sent by the two Yuan Dynasty crown princes sent by Zhenjin, whom he caught in the eyes of the inn.

After interrogation, it was learned that Zhenjin was really responsible for the investigation of Cheng Yue as Cheng Yue had analyzed Mei'er before, but they didn't know how many people they had sent over, they only knew that there were people moving around in all important places of Cheng Yue. In addition, they also confessed a very important news, it is said that someone will specifically contact the ministers of the Song Dynasty to deal with Cheng Yue.

Cheng Yue and Yang Ting looked at each other and smiled, each took a piece of paper, and wrote down the names of Liu Mengyan and Chen Yizhong at the same time, Cheng Yue drew a line under the name of Liu Mengyan, and Yang Ting drew a circle. Laugh at each other. Yang Ting dragged the two spies outside the city to kill them, and reported to the officials as if they had been robbed and killed.

Xie Daoqing was not easy after receiving Lu Xiufu's return, she had no ambitions, and she didn't want to start a war with foreign countries to expand her territory, she just wanted to live this life in peace. Seeing that it was her sixty-sixth birthday, the imminent arrival of the envoys made her worried.

The emperors of the Great Song Dynasty have treated these countries well, and the exchange of rewards has never been interrupted, so do you want to meet each other because of Cheng Yue? Although she is the queen mother, she has no way to take Cheng Yue. Cheng Yue wants to take these countries, she doesn't dare to object, she just hopes that Cheng Yue will not cause chaos in the world and ruin people's livelihood. She's old and doesn't want to clean up the mess for others anymore.

Two days later, in the afternoon, thousands of envoys from the Thirteen Kingdoms entered Lin'an in the name of celebrating the Empress Dowager's birthday, and the Ministry of Rites arranged for them to rest at the pavilion.

The small countries in the south are not too small, with four major countries dividing up almost the entire Indochina Peninsula: Annam, Cham, Khmer and Burma. In addition, there are some small countries that have secession, such as Chiang Mai and Sukouthai. This time, overseas Java and Mayi also sent envoys, on the one hand, to listen to the news, and on the other hand, they wanted to take the opportunity to make a big deal in the name of tribute.

The envoy was headed by the crown prince of Annam, Tran Yen (Yuan Shi as Tran Ri Xuan), at this time Annam was the famous era of Tran Shengzong in Vietnamese history, Tran Trung was his eldest son, the future Tran Renzong, who is now only eighteen years old.

Chen Shengzong attached great importance to agriculture and mulberry, advocated Confucianism, set up Taixue in the country, and held imperial examinations, which won the support of the people. Chen Yu is also smart and studious, and has a deep literary literacy. However, he prefers Buddhism, and is the founder of the so-called Bamboo Forest Zen School, calling himself "Baiyun Datoutuo" and "Bamboo Forest Master".

After the envoys moved in, they politely refused the court's dust-washing banquet and held a meeting directly behind closed doors. They are going to enter the palace tomorrow to face the saint, and the time is very tight, so they have to plan carefully.

Cheng Viet was very interested in Tran Yu after getting the list of envoys, and two years later he accepted Tran Shengzong's offer to ascend to the throne of Emperor Annan, and it was during his reign that some of the most famous generals in Vietnamese history, such as Tran Thanh Yu and Tran Hung Dao, defeated the 500,000 Yuan Army. In particular, Chen Xingdao is both civil and military, and quite courageous, which makes the Vietnamese people always proud, and his status is like China's Yue Fei.

Cheng Yue saw that there was a person named Chen Guojun in the list and knew that it was him. Because Chen Xingdao's real name was Chen Guojun, he was later named the king of Xingdao, so he was called Chen Xingdao.

Cheng Yue closed the list and secretly calculated. When the Annan Chen Dynasty was at the peak of history, these people were so important, should we find a way to kill them all? When the interruption continues, it will be chaotic, Cheng Yue made up his mind, summoned Yang Ting again, and told him his plan.

Yang Ting saw that Cheng Yue attached so much importance to Annan's envoy, although he didn't know why, he knew very well that Cheng Yue was extremely accurate and had never made a mistake. These Annamites must stay and not be allowed to go back.

Cheng Yue said: "This matter will be handed over to you, even if you openly kill them if necessary, you can't let them go back, especially that Chen Guojun, you must not let them go." Now Annan does not know his talents, but I do. He alone can reach tens of thousands of troops, and it is also related to whether my southern expedition will pay a greater price. In the worst case, someone else can put it, he must die! ”

Yang Ting said solemnly: "The subordinates understand that they will never let this person go back alive, so they will go back and arrange it." After saying that, he took his leave. (To be continued......)