"Da Lang, leave Brother Sun Cheng in Jianghua, and there will be fewer people around Da Lang!"

On the Xuanniao, looking at the departing Ganghwa Island, Li Bao was a little worried.

The Koreans thought that Bai Xianfeng and Dong Changqing were Zhou Quan's right-hand men, but in fact, Li Bao and the others knew that Sun Cheng and Wu Yang were Zhou Quan's right-hand men.

Sun Cheng mainly stayed in Liguojian for the past two years, assisting Zhou Fu in coordinating the three major industries of steel, cement and glass, so he almost did not participate in the war in these two years. He himself was not very interested in conquest, so he concentrated on industrial matters.

This time, Zhou Quan kept him in Goryeo, because Sun Cheng was one of the people he trusted the most, and he had not weak coordination ability, he was able to set an example, and he would use this model in overseas concessions in the future.

"Li Bao, you can't stay by my side all the time, sooner or later you have to go out and take charge of yourself, as for me, for a long time in the future, I will stay in the Five Kingdoms City, and the academy will train me in batches!" Zhou Quan said with a smile.

"I'm not leaving you." Li Baowen replied.

"That's not possible, there is one thing next, I still want you to serve, the sea chart over there has been revealed, the team is ready, the natives over there are fierce, far better than Jeju, I need you to take five hundred people to go and establish a stronghold there."

"Let someone else go, I don't want to leave you!" Li Bao said again.

"Since that's the case, then I'll let Ye Chu go."

"No, I'll go!" As soon as he heard that this opportunity was going to fall on Ye Chu, Li Bao's heart suddenly gave birth to fighting spirit.

Ye Chu looked at him unpleasantly, and he also looked at Ye Chu unpleasantly.

"That's good...... You must know that there are two most important things after you go, one is to train the soldiers, the natives are stubborn, it is said that there are also cannibal tribes, do not show mercy to the cannibal tribes, cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and if you are not cannibals, you can let them be driven by me. The other thing is gold! ”

Li Bao was stunned, what does this matter have to do with gold?

Zhou Quan remembered that he had read some books in another life, which mentioned that Liuqiu, which is near Keelung, Taiwan, has a large number of gold mines, which is something he must get, and only with a relatively stable source of precious metals can he establish his own monetary system and control the economic lifeline of the Great Song Dynasty!

If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't be separated and begged for the trip, he would have wanted to go there himself.

Not long after returning to Jeju, Li Bao led 500 people to Liuqiu, and by this time the route from Jeju to Liuqiu had been explored, and with the help of the north wind, they arrived at Liuqiu in only six days.

Before them, several exploration teams had already come, so they drew a map of the coast in the north of Liuqiu, and also tried to establish a stronghold on the seaside, Li Bao's trip was to turn this stronghold into a base, and at the same time use this base as the center to explore around, clear out the cannibal natives, and conquer the ordinary natives.

After sending Li Bao out, Zhou Quan summoned Ye Chu to the front again: "How are these days?" ”

"I'm so depressed, why did Da Lang let Li Bao out, but didn't let me go out to make meritorious contributions!" Ye Chu smiled flatteringly: "Why don't I go and exchange Li Bao for him, and promise to do better than him!" ”

"You are more flexible than he is, so I will leave you to deal with the most cunning." Zhou Quan said.

"Who?"

"Japan...... I want you to go to Japan, preferably as a businessman, and walk around the land of Japan to find out where its gold, silver, copper, and other minerals are distributed, and most importantly, to find out the domestic political situation in Japan, and see if you can provoke civil strife in the country. ”

Zhou Quan's words were unhurried, and Ye Chu heard his determination.

Obviously, this is to prepare for the future, if the strength is enough and there is an opportunity, Zhou Quan is going to attack Japan.

"Da Lang......" Ye Chu wanted to speak and stopped.

"If there is any difficulty, just say, I can solve it, I will solve it for you!"

"If an official eunuch in Japan takes a fancy to me and wants to allow my daughter to be my concubine, will I agree or not?"

This guy's words made Zhou Quan's nose crooked: "You guys are really spring...... If there is such a good thing, I don't care about anything else, or the old saying, a woman from another country cannot be a wife! ”

It's okay to be a concubine, but not a wife.

Ye Chu immediately smiled when he heard this, knowing that Zhou Quan was relieved.

There is no one in his house, and he has long thought about spreading the branches and leaves, even if there will be any shortcomings on the battlefield in the future, there will be no one at home.

Not to mention how Ye Chu picked a country in Japan, on the day he was ordered to set off, the Great Song Jingshi, as the envoy of Goryeo, Li Ziliang, sneakily walked to a garden.

He gave the little guy guarding the small door a gold bill, and the little guy checked it and said in a low voice: "You have to be careful, don't cause trouble, if you implicate me, you won't be killed!" ”

"Rest assured." Li Ziliang said.

But in Li Ziliang's heart, he can't control that much.

In a few moments, he heard the commotion in the walls.

In the past two years, the Great Song Jingshi will be particularly lively when the year passes, and the football matches will be continuous, such as today's ball game, the "Shenwu Army" supported by the Cai family, and the "Longxiang Army" supported by a certain prince, the two sides are the top two teams in the Beijing Football League.

Therefore, this battle has attracted great attention, tickets are hard to find, and even more, it is rumored that today's officials will also come to watch the battle in person.

Li Ziliang knows that this is not a rumor, the door he is now in will be the door that Zhao Ji will pass through when he comes to watch the game in person, there is a sandwich wall in the door, and Zhao Ji will come to the guest of honor from the sandwich wall, where there is a special box for him and his cronies to watch the game.

It took a lot of effort for him to find out the way to five of Goryeo's students in Taixue.

"Zhou Quan, wait, I don't believe it, I can't spread your matter to the ears of Zhao Guan's family!" Li Ziliang thought hatefully.

After he was sent to Beijing by Zhou Quan, he was looking for an opportunity to see Zhao Ji to complain, but several places in the Great Song Dynasty that received Goryeo envoys pushed him around, and his ability to kick the ball was not inferior to that of the Shenwu Army or the Long Xiang Army. has been working hard here for half a year, and Li Ziliang still hasn't been able to see the Great Song Emperor, let alone submit the credentials.

Originally, Goryeo wanted to marry Zhou Quan, and people came to inform Li Ziliang of the postponement of the complaint, but after Zhou Quan refused, this matter was put on the agenda by Goryeo monarchs and ministers. They didn't expect anything to be gained by filing a lawsuit, they just wanted to put pressure on Zhou Quan to re-establish an agreement.

In fact, if Zhou Quan agreed to the marriage, the Goryeo monarchs and ministers would also ask Zhou Quan to revise the agreement on the grounds of family affection - in short, whether Zhou Quan agreed or not, they would always have a reason.

Li Ziliang shrank into the door and found a hidden place to stay, it was still early at this time, and it was not until the afternoon that the ball game began, and the official family probably arrived in the afternoon, so he could only wait here in advance to avoid being driven away by the honor guard who cleared the field.

"That Zhou Zhizhi is really powerful in the world, and others are still thousands of miles away, but the influence on the Great Song Jingshi is still there!"

After muttering, Li Ziliang hid behind the rockery.

Since the cement is popular in Beijing, the cost of the rockery is extremely low, three or five ugly stones, two or three bags of cement, patchwork, you can pile up into a rockery, recruit some vassal elegance, chant a few words of oil and crookedness, and then this broken play has become "elegance", and some people call it "culture". Li Ziliang shrank behind this "Feng Ya", Ya didn't feel it, but the wind was quite strong, at the end of the year, the cold wind hit, blowing his snot sideways, and he had to suck it from time to time.

But you have to endure it.

From early in the morning, to noon, and the stomach was already hungry, Li Ziliang took out the wrapped Hu cake and took a few bites quite proudly: "Fortunately, I had the foresight and made preparations...... It's coming, it's coming. ”

He didn't know that in front of another door, Zhao Ji walked in with a smile. At this time, other audiences had not yet arrived, and Zhao Ji was dressed in ordinary clothes, looking like a middle-aged head of a wealthy family.

Beside him, there are Cai Xing, Yang Jian, and Liang Shicheng...... Even if this group of people is not a member of the Tokai Chamber of Commerce, they must be members of the Cotton Chamber of Commerce.

"Zhuqing, this year's ball game is very large." Zhao Ji said casually when he walked through the courtyard wall and entered the real court.

"The official family rules vertically, the world is peaceful, and the people are happy, so there is this scene." Immediately, there was a big attendant patting the horse.

Zhao Ji laughed, accepted the compliment, and then squinted his eyes slightly and looked towards the court.

In another life, it was just a very rudimentary circular court, with stepped seats stretching down, a total of 20 floors, and a squeezed fit of about 60,000 spectators. At this time, this is the largest stadium in the Great Song Jingshi and even in the whole world, and only national-level events or ceremonies can be used.

It cost an unknown amount of money to build such a stadium, but Zhao Ji didn't care about it, it was built by the Cotton Chamber of Commerce, at least on the surface, it didn't cost the treasury a penny.

At most, one-third of the cement transported from Xuzhou will be used for the construction of this stadium.

At present, there are only two stands in the north and south of the stadium, so only these two stands can be regarded as having seats, and other places can only be crowded together to stand and watch the game. Rao is like this, not long after Zhao Ji entered, the audience began to enter, and in the blink of an eye, thousands of people had already entered.

"Your Donghai Chamber of Commerce has made a lot of money again this year?" Zhao Ji looked at Cai Xing.

If you are a civil official in front of the imperial court, you will naturally not say this, as a minister, it is really undignified to participate in any chamber of commerce.

However, there are close ministers nearby, and everyone knows that this official can do a lot of ridiculous things, so Cai Xing said with a smile: "The Chamber of Commerce earns a lot, but the imperial court earns more, and the imperial court has a lot of gold, silver, and copper in this year's income, and a lot of gold, silver, and copper are taxes paid by the Chamber of Commerce." ”

"I heard that there was some conflict with the Koreans?" Zhao Ji asked slowly.

The atmosphere around him suddenly froze! (To be continued.) )