- At the end of September, Chen Ke arrived at Guangnan West Road and was warmly welcomed by the civil and military forces of Guangxi.

You must know that since the Taizong Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty has not only increased any territory, but has continued to lose its army and land, and the morale of the army and the people is quite sluggish, and no one even dares to say such bold words as 'recovering Yanyun'.

Dali's attachment is like giving the Great Song Dynasty a shot of chicken blood. You must know that the land of Dali has been the territory of the Chinese Dynasty since ancient times. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Zhuge Liang, and Taizong of the Tang Dynasty all established a ruling order here, and later because of the wrong policies of the Tang Dynasty, the Nanzhao Kingdom became independent. Since then, the south of Caiyun has been separated from the central court for two hundred years, and even the wise and martial Emperor Taizu has not taken it back.

Now, Dali is attached, and the golden ou is complete, and it is not through barbaric conquest wars, but the king of Dali takes the initiative to dedicate the country, which is really in line with the aesthetic pursuit of the literati government...... In politics, the scholars pursued the royal way of governing the world with benevolence and righteousness. Its highest state is the so-called 'I walk on the royal road, and all summers will be attached'!

Now, the Dali Kingdom, the big 'Zhuxia', comes to be attached, doesn't it prove that the benevolent government of the Great Song Dynasty is very successful, and the royal road has reached a very high level? Doesn't it prove that the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty are very competent and benevolent?

Originally, because they gave birth to another daughter, the depressed official family also swept away the boredom in their hearts, happily went to the temple to pay tribute to their ancestors, and when they personally presided over the suburban sacrifice, they reported the good news to the heavens. Naturally, it is indispensable to reward the ministers and the big officials...... Officials above the fourth grade have each received an index of grace. The rest of the officials were rewarded almost as much as a year's worth of money.

These celebrations alone cost 10 million yuan, which can definitely make the silk dynasty of the Ming and Qing dynasties tremble.

For those who have made meritorious contributions, they should naturally be rewarded more generously. There are already rumors in the government and the opposition. As soon as Wang Qi returned to the capital. will be Xuan Ma to worship the prime minister, and Fan Zhen should be like this, but this guy is too annoying. The official family didn't like to see him, so they only added him to the rank of knight and didn't let him return to Beijing...... The benefits of the separation of official positions in the Song Dynasty are manifested. Even if you are an official at the level of a prime minister, you are still a local mayor, and there is no temple that cannot accommodate a great bodhisattva.

As for Chen Ke, the new champion hand-picked by the official family is a hot figure with his bare hands. Now, he and his successor were ordered to send envoys, galloping back to Beijing for thousands of miles, and the story of the Golden Palace fighting the public and finally persuading the imperial court to send troops is already known to the world. The world loves young heroes the most. The official family also likes him to give himself a long face...... Originally, the official family ordered this champion, which was to exclude public opinion, and many ministers talked behind their backs. is because of Chen Ke's affinity with the official family. Let Zhao Zhen be speechless.

No way, who let Zhao Zhen have a criminal record? In the second year of the celebration of the calendar. Originally, the champion was Wang Anshi's, but later he lost the champion because of 'carelessness'. But those who know the inside story know that it is not like that at all - the truth is that Queen Cao fell in love with the young and handsome Yang Ning and wanted to recruit her as her niece and son-in-law. In order to add luster to this family affair, and also have the idea of 'fertilizer and water does not flow into outsiders' fields', Zhao Zhen shook his pen and gave the champion to Yang Ning.

As long as you become a thief once, others will always think that you are a thief in the future. So this time, it is indispensable for the official family to go through the back door for relatives again. You must know that the mouth of the doctor of the Song Dynasty hurts people, but it doesn't matter if you are the emperor or the minister, let alone Chen Ke, a new champion...... It is also thanks to him that he left Beijing immediately, otherwise he would inevitably be sneered at on various occasions.

Now it's good, Zhuang Yuanlang has made a miraculous feat of expanding the territory, which not only silenced those who talk about gossip completely, but also made Chen Ke the brightest star in the political arena of the Great Song Dynasty.

Although the official reward has not yet come down, everyone understands that this kid who has both academic qualifications, relationships, and merits will inevitably soar, and he can't even drag it. So it is not difficult to understand the flattery of Guangxi Wenwu to him. …,

What's more, Chen Ke is also knowledgeable, and he has not forgotten that in his summary report to the imperial court, he mentioned the contribution of the troops and the effective support of the Guangnan West Road, which made them also heroes of the expansion of the land.

At the welcome banquet, Lao Wang Han smiled and gave Chen Ke two precious gifts - first, he collected 50,000 people from Guangnan West Road, which is vast and sparsely populated, and received 50,000 people from Jinghu South Road, and collected the 100,000 people needed by Chen Ke.

Needless to say, this generous gift to relieve the urgent need is self-explanatory. Speaking of another case, he sent all the skilled craftsmen of the capital of Guangnan West Road to Chen Ke, and promised that he would open up the supply of materials and fully support the opening of the Hongshui River......

This gift is not at all thinner than the previous one, you must know that the capital is an institution set up by the imperial court to manufacture weapons and various military materials in various places. In particular, the border town of Guangnan West Road has brought together countless skilled craftsmen, which is almost comparable to the north-south workshops in Bianjing.

digging channels, clearing reefs, building dams...... It is also a big project in later generations, not to mention that in the Song Dynasty, where the technical conditions were not yet developed, without the assistance of the military, it was really difficult.

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Wang Han, an old fritter who 'doesn't see a rabbit and doesn't scatter an eagle', naturally won't return it with blood just because Chen Ke sent a favor. The reason why he is fully supportive is because of his own intentions...... First, it is good to sell Chen Ke, he can't count on Chen Ke anymore, but there are children and grandchildren who can enjoy this good fate.

Of course, the most important thing is that he knows very well that the opening of the Hongshui River is of great significance to Guangnan West Road.

Guangxi is mountainous and barbarian, probably the poorest of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty was a regional economic system, that is, each administrative division was self-financed. First of all, the taxes handed over to the imperial court cannot be less, and in addition, the local expenses are all on their own, of course, the largest of them, military expenses and official salaries, are still paid by the imperial court.

Seeing that the Guangnan West Road has been pacified for a long time, the imperial court's examination of Guangxi's civil and military affairs in the future will inevitably change from the military aspect to the civil administration. However, they persuaded farmers to deal with mulberry farming, cured wasteland, recruited famine, increased household registration, built water conservancy, and built schools...... Which of these local officials' examination projects was not piled up with money?

Without money, nothing can be done, and officials have no future at all. Therefore, in public and private, Wang Han has to find a way to make money for Guangnan West Road. But he raised his eyes and smiled helplessly, the so-called poor mountains and bad waters, that is, Guangxi, right?

What's worse is that the transportation is inconvenient, and Guangxi is not completely without good things, such as all kinds of precious timber, which can be transported to the capital for 10,000 gold. However, the roads in Guangxi are difficult to walk, the forests are dense, many small roads are not walked for three or five days, and big trees grow on the ground, and a huge beam is to be transported to the capital, it takes eight months before and after, and I don't know how much manpower and material resources will be consumed, so almost no one cares.

Just when his eyes were black, Chen Ke had finished Dali, and Dongchuan City was about to be repaired. After the completion of the Hongshui River project, the transportation between Dali and the mainland will be smooth, Dali's silver and copper mines, rich products, will continue to be transported to the mainland, and the materials and commodities of the mainland will also continue to be transported to Dali. Of course, Guangxi's materials can also be hitchhiked, and there is no need to worry about the problem of foreign transportation.

However, the economically minded officials of the Great Song Dynasty not only saw this benefit, but what made them even more excited was the high-quality tax source brought by the frequent exchange of large goods!

However, after all, the government is not a king of the mountains who 'want to cross this road and leave the money to buy the road', and it is impossible for the merchants to pay taxes to you just because they beat you in front of your house. Of course, it can be forcibly expropriated, but the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty are not fuel-efficient lamps, and if the black materials are whole, those imperial historians who are worried about not being able to complete the impeachment index all day long will naturally pounce on them like vicious dogs.

So how can it be taxed legally? According to the laws of the Song Dynasty, the origin, transshipment, and destination of goods all had the right to be taxed...... Guangxi is neither the place of departure nor the destination, and the only thing that can be fought for is the place of transshipment. Theoretically, after the copper ship left Yunnan, it either went north by Lingqu or by sea. However, after thousands of years of operation, the Ling Canal has been silted up, dredging is a big project, and compared with sea transportation, inland waterway shipping takes too long, the cost is too high, and the efficiency is too low. So sea freight is actually the only option.

Then the key is which port to ship from. It stands to reason that the Pearl River flows into the sea from Guangzhou, which is the largest port city in the Great Song Dynasty, and there are specialized institutions such as the Municipal Shipping Division, which is the best choice for Yunnan copper to enter the sea.

However, the Qinzhou Port built by Chen Ke gave Wang Han hope. Only then did he know that there was such an excellent port in his jurisdiction, and there was a waterway leading directly to the Pearl River, so he could cut off Hu halfway!

After all, he was an old man who was born in a war with troops, and Wang Han thought that he would do it, so he prepared this huge profit and waited for Chen Ke, hoping that he could set the outlet to the sea in Qinzhou Port.

After listening to Lao Wang Han's request, Chen Ke was noncommittal, and said with a faint smile: "Let's take a field trip first." ”

"It should be, it should be." Wang Han immediately put aside his official duties and accompanied him all the way south, and within a day, he arrived at Anyuan City, Qinzhou, Guangxi, a simple seaside port. I saw a wharf made of cement concrete, standing quietly on the edge of the South China Sea.

This wharf, which stretches for dozens of miles with a sea embankment, was built by Chen Ke in ten days and has been continuously improved to this day. After receiving the military supplies shipped from Jiangnan, it became a port for receiving military supplies on Quang Nam West Road.

The garrison and management personnel on the wharf had already been informed and came out to greet them from afar.

Chen Ke and Wang Han rode horses, along a gray-white cement avenue to the wharf, on both sides of the road, pointing to tall coconut trees, occasionally seagulls overhead, casting a curious glance -

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