"Xin'er, how much do you know about the Wa Kingdom?" Zhao Yan, who was thinking about his thoughts, suddenly asked Zhao Xin in the carriage, just now he suddenly thought of the problem of the Wa Kingdom, his main energy over the years has been attracted by the strong enemies of the Western Xia, Northern Liao and Jin States, although he knows some about the Wa Kingdom, but he does not know the details.

"Wa Guo? Father, how could you be interested in this island nation? Zhao Xin was surprised when he heard this, he did know a lot about the Wa Kingdom, because their Imperial City Division had sent detailed work to inquire about information in the surrounding countries of the Great Song Dynasty, and he used to work in the capital headquarters of the Imperial City Division, and he often came into contact with the intelligence of various countries, including the intelligence of the Wa Kingdom.

"There are no strong enemies around us, and the next main task is the development of the ocean, of which the South China Sea has been almost developed, and the western route has also been opened, so I want to open up some routes to the east, so that you can directly reach North and South America, the Japanese country is just located in the east of the sea, and as far as I know, there is an ocean current that can directly reach North and South America, so if necessary, you can occupy it too, at least occupy some important ports, to facilitate the operation of future routes. Zhao Yan opened his mouth to explain, of course, this is only one of the reasons, and there is another reason that he did not say.

"Father, you are thinking too far, it seems that I will never become a qualified politician." Zhao Xin sighed when he heard this, in fact, his political vision is not bad, otherwise he would not easily say that Yelu Nuzhang surrendered, but his vision is still a little limited, and he lacks a sense of the overall situation, which is much worse than his eldest brother Zhao Jia.

"Political vision can be experienced, if you want to develop politically, I can ask your cousin to arrange a position for you. Start with the county order, and maybe you can become a generation of virtuous ministers in a few decades, do you want to try? Zhao Yan said half-seriously and half-jokingly at this time, in fact, he hoped that Zhao Xin would really go to be a county magistrate honestly, so that it would be much safer than him staying in the Imperial City Division and running around now, but with his understanding of his son. I'm afraid he won't be willing to be an honest magistrate when he dies.

Sure enough, I saw that Zhao Xin stuck out his tongue when he heard Zhao Yan's words and said with disgust: "Forget it, I'm too lazy to do what a county order, and dad, don't think I don't know, although there are many channels for the officials of the Great Song Dynasty, the most formal is the imperial examination, if you are not from a Jinshi background, even if I am a royal family, being an official is also discriminated against." I asked myself if I didn't have the ability to get into the jinshi, so I didn't go to join in the fun. ”

Zhao Xin's words revealed an unspoken rule of the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty, that is, the official's background determines his status, and generally only by taking the imperial examination can it be considered the right way to be an official. Because most of the officials reviewed above are from Jinshi, this is obviously very unfair to other officials. Zhao Yan also thought of a way to solve this, but unfortunately the effect was not great, and in the end he could only think of a way in the imperial examination, and now the imperial examination in addition to the examination of Confucian scriptures, but also to test some natural science knowledge, in addition to current politics and other aspects. As much as possible, some practical talents are selected from among the candidates, but this still cannot solve the problem of discrimination in officialdom.

"To be an official, you still have to pick and choose, do you think ordinary people can't find a way to be an official?" Zhao Yan deliberately glared at his son when he heard this, of course he wasn't really angry. But it's really strange to say that none of his sons are interested in being officials. This is quite similar to him, but he can't help it, even if he doesn't like to be an official, but in the end he still falls into the whirlpool of officialdom and can't extricate himself.

Zhao Xin didn't want to worry about whether to be an official or not with his father, so he changed the topic and began to introduce the current situation of the Wa Kingdom to Zhao Yan, speaking of which the Wa Kingdom had just undergone a huge change, and the Taira clan, who was in charge of the central power of the Wa Kingdom, was defeated by the Minamoto Yoritomo of the Genji, so Genji became the first nobleman of the Wa Kingdom, and the Minamoto Yoritomo was named the "Shogun of Seiyi", and established the Kamakura Shogunate, which also marked the arrival of the Wa Shogunate era.

However, although the source Yoritomo established the Kamakura shogunate, but he was suspicious in nature, which is very similar to Zhu Yuanzhang in later generations, after the establishment of the shogunate, began to massacre meritorious officials, including his younger brother Gen Yoshitsune, and many military generals with great military achievements, were killed or exiled by Minamoto Yoritomo in various names.

Minamoto Yorito's practice of killing heroes was nothing more than an attempt to stabilize his rule, but on the surface, his practice did indeed strengthen his rule over the shogunate, and all the decrees were carried out to the letter, but in fact it greatly weakened his own strength.

In addition, at the beginning of the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate, the Japanese emperor still held huge power, and he could still issue decrees through the political court, and he also had a lot of troops in his hands. A great change is also brewing within the Wa Kingdom.

"It seems that if we send troops to attack the Wa Kingdom now, it is likely that the Emperor and the Shogunate will be enmity and then unite against our army, which will indirectly help them once." Zhao Yan muttered to himself after listening.

"Father is right, from the information I have seen, the early years or the later years are a good time to attack the Wa Kingdom, but unfortunately it is not suitable to send troops now, but it is not impossible, now there are many contradictions between the Emperor and the Shogunate, if you can send someone over to secretly provoke it, it is likely that they will break out a war in advance, and then our Great Song Dynasty will be left and right in this war, maybe you can control the entire Wa Kingdom without a single soldier!" Zhao Xin also said loudly at this time, and when he said the end, his face was also flushed, and his eyes also showed a look of eagerness, for him, if he could single-handedly provoke the civil strife of the Japanese Kingdom, this kind of achievement was simply too fascinating. (To be continued.) )