On the sixth day after the defeat of the Srivijaya Water King City, that is, on June 13, 320 of the Great Song Dynasty. Zheng Jie, chief of the general staff of the Ministry of War, told the news at the morning meeting in Hangzhou.

Zhao Jiaren breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He believed that the war would be won, but there was nothing he could do to stop himself from worrying about it.

"Our army has broken through the water royal city of Srivijaya, and the army is attacking the land royal city of Sriwijaya." Zheng Jie continued.

It is surprising to say that the royal capital of a country is divided between land and water. Immediately, someone asked why.

"Sriwijaya occupies the strait and blocks the passage of ships. In order to be able to monitor the strait, they established the royal capital on the water. Kings, nobles often lived here. For the time being, we believe that the great ship of Sriwijaya was annihilated by us in this battle. The land royal city of Srivijaya that is now attacking is where the Sriwijaya infantry army is located. If you can break through here, you can be regarded as breaking the Three Buddhas......"

After listening to the chief of the General Staff, the gang understood that the war had only just begun, and the joy of victory was diluted in an instant.

After talking about this matter, Tobe Shangshu began to talk about the problem of opening a canal, "I thought that we could dig the canal along the old river. After the recent measurements, the old channel had to be fully surveyed if the canal was to be excavated because of the siltation of the Yellow River and its elevation above the ground. Therefore, we have carried out a comprehensive study and deepening of soil and water conservation. As the official said, the southward movement of the Yellow River is an ecological disaster! Now all we can maintain is the original canal from the Huai River to the Yangtze River......"

Sun Qingshang's mouth was full of new-style expressions, and the expressions of the other scholars below were more diverse, such as Zheng Jie, the chief of the general staff of the Ministry of War, whose face looked very cold. The Ministry of War once thought that it would be easier to transport troops by reviving the traditional canal. Most of the technicians who carried out the measurements were sent by the military department, and then the results were not accurate using the old river course. This made Zheng Jie feel a kind of chagrin of being cocooned.

As for the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture, their expressions were very heavy. After the land reform in Jiangnan, the agricultural sector has accumulated a wealth of experience. Since the time of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, there has been a saying that 'Su Changshu, the world is full'. The current Jiangnan is the core area of the tax burden of the Great Song Dynasty. After the land reform in the south of the Yangtze River, the Great Song Dynasty spent a lot of effort to improve the soil and water conservation and irrigation system, the hilly areas became forestry areas, and a large number of people who retreated to the plains were allocated water to irrigate the land.

No one is a fool, everyone in the Ministry of Agriculture knows that the core of the current grain of the Great Song Dynasty is this water conservancy system built with huge manpower. At a time when officials at the Ministry of Agriculture are hoping to replicate the system on the vast Huanghuai Plain and achieve great success, they have to stop and wait for more comprehensive measurements. The previous wishful thinking failed.

In addition to these guys who have very vital interests, Xiong Sheng of the Ministry of Rites himself is more concerned about the new words spoken by Sun Qing, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites. There are more and more of these new words, and in the past, Xiong Shang relied on his own ancient Chinese foundation, and he was able to achieve the meaning of the text. However, this advantage is shrinking. There are many new words, such as the ecological disaster that Sun Qing just said. Disasters are easy to understand, what is ecology. Xiong Sheng has no way to judge it in an imaginary way.

The Great Song Dynasty has really become more civilized? Isn't this what the propagandists are talking about? Xiong Shang, who has always regarded himself very highly because he was admitted to the Jinshi, has to be so suspicious.

"Today's morning meeting is over. Sun Qing and Zheng Jie stayed. Zhao Jiaren said.

The one who was not named got up and left, and he couldn't help but look at the two of them twice. The briefing at this morning meeting has something to do with both of them, and I don't know what Zhao Guan's family will talk to them about.

Waiting for the others to leave, Zhao Jiaren said: "I am very confident in the battle of Srivijaya. Our goal in this battle is not to completely destroy the Srivijayajayjay, and now we have neither that much money nor the need for that. There are three things to do at the moment, the first of which is to cut the southern tip of the Indochina Peninsula in Sriwijaya and turn it into our plantation. ”

Although Sun Qing had heard Zhao Guanjia say that 'war is the continuation of politics' in the management course, he felt deeply at this time, and naturally remembered this sentence. The original Hubu Shangshu and the military department discussed together, and it was inevitable that the military department needed money from the household department to fight the war. Sun Qing never thought that there would be a situation where the military department would finish the war and the household department would collect the war dividends.

"The second thing, we have to control the strait. No more enemies are allowed to exist in the strait. ”

"Yes!" Zheng Jie's answer was very crisp and very confident.

Zhao Jiaren turned his head to Sun Qing, "For the household department, all the ships on the waterway in the future must be the ships issued by our Great Song Dynasty for navigation permits. This is under the jurisdiction of the Maritime Safety Administration. ”

The Maritime Administration, which was formerly the governing body of the Maritime Guild, is now temporarily under the Ministry of Households. As soon as Sun Qing heard that the household department had gained so much power, he hurriedly confirmed, "Official, what do you mean by this route?" ”

"We are in charge of all the shipping routes in the entire Pacific Ocean, and we do not issue navigation permits, and no ship can sail in them!"

"Oh! …… Yes! In a matter of seconds, Sun Qing finally figured out what the Pacific Ocean meant. As a result, the Hubu Shangshu of the Great Song Dynasty made a completely different sound. Shang Shu hurriedly asked, "The entire Pacific Ocean?!" ”

The Great Song Dynasty has continuously sent expeditions over the years. The equipment of these expeditions was vastly superior to that of European expeditions in the Age of Discovery. The knowledge of the earth, including latitude and longitude, climate, monsoons, and ocean currents, surpassed the European expeditions of the Age of Discovery. In fact, they are more like 'going to test the assumptions of the Zhao Guanjia about the world'.

Now on the globe of the Great Song Dynasty, the shapes of the Pacific Ocean, the Tianzhu Ocean, and the South Atlantic Ocean are clearly marked. The North Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean have only one general marking. Thinking of the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, Sun Qing was really frightened by the arrogant words of the Zhao official family.

"Of course, what we can't manage now, or where it's inconvenient to manage, we will not manage it for the time being. Good steel should be used on the cutting edge. Zhao Jiaren used a new metaphor to relieve the pressure on his frightened subordinates, which was the trick of clamping steel and making knives.

Sun Qingshangshu withdrew his thoughts to the main route of the Great Song Dynasty, and only then did he feel that the sense of shock had subsided a lot. That's the case, Sun Shangshu still thinks that this scale is really big enough. The northernmost point of the current Great Song Route is Ezo Island. The southern end of the Great Song Route was the strait that the Great Song Dynasty was attacking, and the westernmost end of the route was Egypt in the Red Sea. The distances of the main routes are tens of thousands of miles.

"Official, if there is a fleet on these tens of thousands of miles of routes that have not been approved by us, what should we do?" Sun Shangshu asked.

Zhao Jiaren pointed to the chief of the general staff of the military department sitting next to him, "Then we have to rely on our warships to maintain the order of the route." ”

Sun Shangshu did not continue to speak. By this time, he felt that he had fully understood the phrase 'war is a political continuation'. The Mongols attacked the Great Song Dynasty for profit, and the Srivijaya blocked the strait for the sake of profit, and the Great Song Dynasty resisted the Mongol invasion, and even counterattacked Mongolia and attacked Sriwijaya. It's all for the sake of profit. Politics is something that exists entirely based on interests, and without interests, who will tell you about politics.

When the official speaks, it is not okay to say nothing. Sun Shangshu replied: "The official family has a grand plan, which is beyond the reach of the ministers. ”

Zhao Jiaren said: "These are not overnight efforts, so now you should make a plan based on this." Especially for those who are willing to devote themselves to sailing, it is necessary to make it clear to everyone. ”

"Yes."

"Yes!"

Let the two of them go down and get busy. Zhao Jiaren thought of his father, the current Emperor Zhao Zhizhuo. In the end, Emperor Taishang still adhered to the concept of 'wealth does not return to his hometown, such as brocade clothes walking at night' to return to his hometown in Quanzhou. Also going with him was the Empress Dowager Chen. Empress Dowager Chen is not all going back to her husband's hometown, and the old lady also has to go back to the Chen family to save her relatives.

According to the seniority, the Empress Dowager Chen is probably the highest seniority in the family. In terms of identity, the daughter of the Chen family married Jinshi, and the son she gave birth to is also Jinshi, which is already very noble. Now that she is the queen mother, she is naturally unmatched.

Therefore, the Zhao official family is very much looking forward to their father being able to make the Zhao clan relatives who are not competitive a little shocked, and the uncompetitive guys don't have to count on it at all, and Zhao Jiaren is too lazy to spend precious time on these people. But after seeing Zhao Zhizhou, the emperor, there are some guys who still want to fight on their own. If these guys who want to struggle are willing to go to the South China Sea to open up plantations, Zhao Jiaren will feel very satisfied.

Just as Zhao Jiaren was thinking about these things, the guards reported, "Official, Taishi Xu asks to see you." ”

In Zhao Jiaren's court, there were three people who won the title of Taishi after Zhishi. One is Wu Qian, the other is Xu Yuanzhi, and the other is Li Tingzhi, who greatly offended Zhao Jiaren. So needless to say, Zhao Jiaren knew that it was Xu Yuanzhi who came.

In the past, many people wrote about the Great Song Dynasty and knelt at every turn. In fact, the difference between the Great Song Dynasty and the Great Tang Dynasty is that the high-ranking officials of the Great Tang Dynasty are sitting. And the high-ranking officials of the Great Song Dynasty stood. As for kneeling at every turn, that is the rule of the Northern Great Yuan Chao, and Xu Yuanzhi, as a high-ranking official of Zhishi, is a little too lazy to even bow and salute.

Zhao Jiaren is not interested in this, and those cumbersome daily rituals are replaced by handshakes. The two shook hands, and Zhao Jiaren said with a smile: "Master Xu, I haven't seen you for a few days, but you are rich." ”

"I eat and sleep every day, sleep and eat, it's strange if I don't get fat." Xu Yuanzhi said with a smile.

In the past, for meritorious ministers, the official family had to give a mansion to the master in Beijing. However, this reward is an uncomfortable choice for both parties. Because the mansion should be big and good-looking, the official family will be unhappy. And the location of the official residence is generally not good, and the minister feels very unhappy. Now the Zhao Guanjia does not give a mansion, but sells it to everyone at a very cheap price.

Zhao Jiaren judged from Xu Yuanzhi's words that this old gentleman, like most of the officials in this round of Zhishi, did not leave Hangzhou, but stayed here. A long-term settlement posture. This is easy to understand, regardless of the various theories of fleeing Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, but people who have the opportunity to settle in first-tier cities will still choose to settle there.

The two sat down, and Xu Yuanzhi opened his mouth and asked, "Official, I heard that some people say that they want to feud the South China Sea." ”