“…… Public goods and public services are the foundation of the state. From the country's protection from foreign invasion to whether the people can travel with confidence, public services can meet the direct needs of citizens' life, survival and development, and can benefit or enjoy them. The basic impetus for the formation of the state is the need for protection and services that can only be provided by a social organization at the level of the state......"

Hao Ren stroked his stomach, and although a nauseous sensation surged up from his stomach, he couldn't take his attention off the newspaper in his hand. However, the feeling of nausea became more and more intense, and Hao Ren Wanhu finally poked his head out of the window of the boat on the canal and vomited into the canal.

There are two waterways from the Great Song Dynasty back to the Great Yuan, one starts from Hangzhou along the Zhedong Canal to Qingyuanfu (Ningbo), changes ships in Ningbo, and follows the lighthouse to guide north into the Bohai Sea. Landed in Zhigu Village, and then from Zhigu Village to Dadu (Beijing).

Another road has now been opened, starting from Hangzhou along the Grand Canal to the north, passing through Zhenjiang across the Yangtze River, and from Yangzhou into the canal to the north. Now the Great Song Dynasty has completed the section from the 'Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal' to the Yellow River. Boats can reach the Yellow River directly. Crossing the Yellow River is Dezhou, and there is a post road in Dezhou that leads directly to Dadu.

Hao Ren Wanhu chose the Grand Canal as the way back, so that you can see more of the true face of the Great Song Dynasty. However, Hao Ren Wanhu, who didn't react much to the sea boats, actually got seasick on the canal boat. "Let's stop the boat in Yangzhou to rest first." Hao Renwanhu, who sat back on the boat, gave an order weakly. Seasickness on the Yangtze River made Hao Ren Wanhu feel a little ashamed. He was originally born in the navy, and he used to go down the Yangtze River, swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger.

After getting off the boat, he stood on the shore with his hands behind his back for a while, and Hao Ren Wanhu felt nauseous, and the whole person recovered. Now that he had disembarked, he was reluctant to hurry on board again. Moreover, Yangzhou is a big city, and now this famous city has become a big construction site like Hangzhou, and Hao Ren feels that it is a loss not to take a good look here.

With guards and customs clearance, Hao Ren wandered the streets of Yangzhou. Although Yangzhou is lively, it doesn't seem to have anything new. The same red bricks, the same house type, it can be seen from the tall piers that are being built, Yangzhou has also begun to build a tap water system.

There is no novelty, Hao Ren Wanhu is still visiting Yangzhou. Unlike Hangzhou, because Zhao Taiwei sent troops to defend Yangzhou, the Mongol army was never able to occupy the city, so Hao Ren Wanhu had a strong sense of curiosity about the city. After walking for a while, Hao Ren heard the guards say: "Wanhu, this city seems to be tearing down the city walls. ”

"Hmm." Hao Ren responded. He also saw that the workers were demolishing the earthen walls of Yangzhou City, but in such a magical place as the Great Song Dynasty, it would not surprise Hao Ren to see anything. He had been following the hypothetical location of the running water, and could see that the earth walls had an effect on the erection of the tower. And it has an impact on the passage of Yangzhou.

The guards didn't notice Hao Ren's attitude that he didn't care, but he continued to express his attitude quite excitedly, "Wanhu, if we attack Yangzhou again next time, there is no city wall, we should be able to go down in one fell swoop." ”

“…… Well. Hao Ren replied again. He didn't really agree with the guards at all, but he wasn't the age to express the slightest objection at once.

At that time, the Mongols slaughtered countless cities, and whether there was a city wall or not was of limited significance to Mongolia. The Battle of the Yellow River between the Great Yuan and the Great Song Dynasty was fought between the two sides for several months, during which many battles broke out between the two sides, large and small, and even a great change that changed the course of the Yellow River. Bianliang and Luoyang are both big cities with high and deep pools, and it is said that they all go down in one day. The barracks built by the Song army were built in one day with straw bags of soil, and the Mongol army besieged it with several times the number of troops, but there was still no way.

At the end of the Battle of the Yellow River, the Song army was able to conquer the county seat of Huaxian under the encirclement of the Mongols, and the Mongol army at this time even sent heavy cavalry to charge the battle. As a result, the Song army eliminated the Mongol heavy cavalry and broke through Huaxian on the other.

After these changes, Hao Ren's dependence on the city wall was greatly reduced. These walls may be useful, but they are no longer the decisive ones.

Continuing along the water pipeline construction site, as Hao Ren expected, this passage came from a reservoir outside the city. Many small saplings have been planted next to the reservoir, and when the saplings grow, the huge water surface will be surrounded by wide forests, just like the huge reservoir outside Hangzhou.

Hao Ren stood at the edge of the woods, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, most of them didn't seem to have such conditions. Lakes can be found everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River, but not north of the Yellow River, and the rivers in the Hebei region are not as clear as those in the south of the Yangtze River.

After walking for so long, Hao Ren also felt hungry, so he walked back with the guards.

"Wanhu, did I say something wrong?" The guard asked.

"Nope."

"Then why don't you even scold?"

"I ......," Hao Ren wanted to say but stopped. The fact that the guards knew they were wrong was already terrible in itself. It doesn't feel right to fool him like this.

"Wanhu, just say what you have." The guard hurriedly added.

"I just think that Song Guo has changed too much, and our previous views on Song Guo, and even our own views, have to change with them. You've also seen the tap water in the Song Kingdom, do you think it's convenient? ”

"It's convenient...... it's convenient," the guard was a little hesitant.

"And then?"

"Tap water is a thing of the Song Kingdom, praising them, I always feel that something is wrong." The guard spoke his mind.

"Haha. It's the things of the Song Kingdom, and when we learn them, they become our own things. There must be a teacher for the threesome, choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones. Hao Ren really couldn't say the latter sentence in Mongolian, so he used Chinese.

Hao Ren's cultural accomplishment of the guard is not as high as that of Kublai Khan's chief guard Wang Donglu, as Hao Ren's senior brother, although Wang Donglu's Confucianism is not Xunxue, it is also science. Hearing Hao Ren drop his schoolbag, the guard just laughed twice, and then couldn't continue.

The guards were able to keep their mouths shut, and Hao Ren also felt a lot more relaxed. He couldn't help but think about the tap water technology he brought back from Da Song this time. Although Hao Ren can be sure that the tap water technology provided by Song Guo is by no means all, at least it is already a tap water technology that can be used.

Why did Song Guo give this kind of thing to Hao Ren, Hao Ren felt that it could not be simply thought that Song Guo had a special opinion of Hao Ren. If he really looked at it, Taiwei Zhao should have met Hao Ren in person, instead of simply meeting Hao Ren at the regular table. If it is more cordial, at least last time Taiwei Zhao also told Hao Ren about simple materialism.

Although he had regrets in his heart, Hao Ren still felt more grateful to Taiwei Zhao for ......, oh, it was Zhao Guan's family. When Zhao Guanjia learned of Hao Ren's request, he ordered some tap water materials to be sent to Hao Ren. Including the construction of reservoirs, the construction of canals, the construction of fountains. Hao Ren really wanted to build the water supply system of Dadu according to the model of the Great Song Dynasty after returning to Dadu.

Hao Ren wanted to learn not only tap water, but also many wonderful things in the Song Kingdom. For example, the division of official residences among the high-ranking officials of the Song State also made Hao Ren feel eye-opening. It's a big community, and although the house type is the same, there are different locations. If it is according to Dayuan's means, it is the emperor who gives the house. The Song Kingdom is different.

That's an algorithm according to the level, according to the number of years of service. The algorithm is public, and Hao Ren's feeling is that the longer the working years, the easier it is to rank high, and the impact of the level is a little smaller than the working years.

Originally, Hao Ren thought that everyone had a number, but it turned out that Song Guo was not like this, which was calculated according to batches. Each group of people has to draw lots, and the numbers drawn by lottery are the order of house selection. This approach made Hao Ren confused. Isn't the Song State the clear hierarchy of Mongolia?

Although Song officials were complaining about their luck, there was no obvious anger overall. A very small number of dissatisfied people only gave up this subdivision in exchange for the right to choose the first in the next batch.

Hao Ren recalled this experience several times over the years, and he could certainly understand the intention. Everyone wants to get a house that they are happy with, and this division can reduce the complaint to a very low level. However, Hao Ren also felt strange, why didn't the Zhao official family use his strong position to divide the room? If it were Mongolia, it would not do this at all, and the origin naturally determines everything. Hao Ren Wanhu was naturally able to choose among the top houses, and anyone felt that this was a smooth success.

As he walked, Hao Ren suddenly stopped. It's a close place to the construction site, and there's a lot of building materials, but there's no one there. The people who followed them had been following them for a long time, so long that they wanted to pretend that they didn't see Hao Ren and couldn't bear it. It is to see Hao Ren, the Mongolian envoy, why not come forward generously. It is difficult for Hao Ren, a son of ten thousand households, to be like a petty thief.

The guards also saw this person, but Hao Ren signaled before that he didn't bother with this person first, so the guards also endured it. Now seeing that Hao Ren Wanhu couldn't bear it, he also turned around and blocked in front of Hao Ren Wanhu, but he didn't block Wanhu's sight.

When the person on the other side saw Hao Ren confronting him so openly, he didn't dodge, but stepped forward. After making a salute, the man asked, "May I ask if you are the envoy of the Mongols?" ”

"What's the matter with you?" Hao Ren asked directly.

"I am Yang Dacheng, the nephew of the Empress Dowager Yang of the Great Song Dynasty, and I want to defect to the Great Yuan." The man's answer was straightforward.

Hao Ren Wanhu was stunned. Not long after Empress Dowager Yang was stripped of her honorific title, Taiwei Zhao entered the palace surrounded by a group of officials and announced that Taiwei Zhao had become the Son of Heaven with the support of the world. The Yang family instantly changed from the status of a relative of the emperor to an object that no one wanted to deal with. So it's not unusual for the Yang family to want to defect to Dayuan. But is what this man said true? And how did he know Hao Ren's whereabouts?