The Ministry of Rites Shangshu Xiongshang has been in a good mood recently. The first thing is naturally that he is about to send a minister, although there is still a love affair, and the officials here have begun to implement welfare measures for all officials. Compared to the house where Xiong Sheng lives now, he can choose a similar house. Buy it at a very low price.

Just this one thing, Xiong Sheng felt that he was worth his official value. What others think is someone else's business, Xiong Sheng is not ready to return to his hometown, he wants to retire in Hangzhou and live here for the rest of his life. This house can be determined now, and the payment for the house will wait for Xiong Shangshu to be glorious.

took the latest news of the Wa Kingdom to see Zhao Guan's house, and when he was waiting at the door, Xiong Shangshu happily sorted out the content to be reported.

Overseas is also good news. First of all, after the crusade against Egypt, Marshal Boyan was ordered to manage Egypt, and Boyan unexpectedly agreed to dig a canal from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. Egypt used to have such a canal, which ran eastward from the Nile to a depression on the north side of the Great Bitter Lake. The Great Song sent technicians to help with the survey. According to the map given by Zhao Jiaren, if the construction is to be carried out, it will be necessary to dig the river channel from the Great Bitter Lake to the Red Sea. These are all used as a guide for the technician to bring with them.

From the map, this canal is a bit like a right angle. From the Red Sea to the north, to the depression north of the Great Bitter Lake. If the east-west canals dug by the Egyptians were wide and deep enough, the steam ships of the Great Song went west into the Nile and then north into the Mediterranean. If the canal dug by Boyan was not deep enough, at least the fleet could unload cargo less than 200 miles from the Mediterranean. For land transport, the gap between 200 miles and 400 miles is just big enough.

In the latest news, the technicians of the Great Song Dynasty said that the commander of Boyan was a resolute man, and had begun to recruit a large number of Egyptians to start digging the freshwater canal from the Nile to the Great Bitter Lake.

What else is there besides this and the matter of the Wa Kingdom? Xiong Shangshu felt that he had an impression in his heart, but he couldn't remember it. When he opened the profile, he remembered. Although Kublai Khan, the Great Khan of Mongolia, was strongly hostile to the Great Song Dynasty, he could not prevent the flow of daily necessities such as small hardware and silk threads into Mongolia during the Great Song Dynasty. Kublai Khan again demanded the establishment of a special supply port in Basra, and later the goods of the Great Song Dynasty were transported to Basra and sold to the exclusive officials of the Mongol court.

However, there were various factions in each place, for example, on the northern shore of the Black Sea, north of the territory of the Great Marshal of Boyan, the Yuan state under the command of Hao Ren expressed its willingness to import goods from the Great Song Dynasty by smuggling. If the Suez Canal can be built directly from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, Hao Ren Wanhu is even willing to become the general agent of the sales of Da Song goods in Europa countries.

In addition, the guys in Sinhala once again asked the bigwigs in the court to help them explain the law, and asked the Great Song to expand their territory westward. From the current Yungui all the way to the west, conquer the states on the east coast of the Tianzhu Peninsula, and finally occupy the entire southern region of Tianzhu. The main fighters swore to the important ministers of the imperial court, 'If this is achieved, we can triple the production of spices, double the production of spices, and increase the production of black tea fourfold'

At this point, even Xiong Sheng couldn't help but test them for them. If the war goal can be achieved, the Xiong Shang family can also get a piece of the pie from the results of this battle. Black tea is already a very common drink in the Great Song Dynasty, and if Xiong Sheng himself doesn't drink it for a few days, he will feel a little unaccustomed to it.

In addition to these, there is one more thing in the introduction. After reading it, Xiong Shang finally remembered what he had forgotten. The Great Song Dynasty had occupied a large island to the east of what Zhao Jiaren called Madagascar, and some countries to the west of the island. Although it is very backward, it can also be regarded as a barbarian state. Those people were dark, but they were kind. The people on the Song side asked if they would build an embassy over there.

When the secretary led Xiong Shang to see Zhao Jiaren, he saw Zhao Jiaren pacing in the conference room, reading a manuscript. At this time, he no longer uses crutches, but his movements look more careful. Seeing Xiong Sheng come in, Zhao Jiaren motioned for Xiong Shang to sit down first, and then paced back to the desk and sat down. After thinking for a while with his eyes closed, Zhao Jiaren opened his eyes and said to Xiong Xiang: "Say, what is the progress." ”

Xiong Sheng will report on the recent content, Zhao Jiaren is mainly to support foreign cooperation. Regarding the matter of sending envoys to countries on the west coast of Tianzhu Ocean, Zhao Jiaren asked Xiong Sheng with a smile: Are you willing to go? “”

"Don't die!" Xiong Sheng replied decisively. According to the news transmitted from all over the world, the Great Song Dynasty is the richest, most civilized, and most suitable city on the earth to live in. If you set off to the north of Tianzhu Ocean, it will be not bad. Going to the wilderness is beyond the scope of the patience of the people of the Great Song Dynasty. Unless he made a big mistake and tried to redeem his position. Otherwise, who would be willing to go to the barbarian state on the west bank of the Tianzhu Ocean as a diplomat. If he changes to a bear dress, he can do nothing, and he won't go there.

Zhao Jiaren smiled, but didn't say anything more. Listening to the suggestion of conquering the central and southern states of Tianzhu, Zhao Jiaren shook his head slightly. I can see that I have taken this matter to heart.

"Aren't the officials willing to go on an expedition to Tianzhu?" Xiong Shang asked tentatively.

"Nope. Personally, I don't think the expedition to Tianzhu is anything remarkable. ”

"Then why are you so upset?"

"We don't have that many troops now, and the Northern Expedition alone has exhausted our strength. Now there are a lot of bad things in the country. If there is nothing else to do now, I don't need them to talk about it, I have already ordered the requisition of Tianzhu myself. After Zhao Jiaren finished speaking, he leaned back on the chair carefully.

Xiong Shang knows what the so-called 'many bad things in the country' means. The new tax and agricultural regulations sparked an all-out opposition from the Song Jinshi family. In the past month or so, the current living conditions of the peasants in the Great Song Dynasty have been serialized in newspapers such as the "Great Song Daily," "The Great Song Military Daily," "The Great Song Dynasty Journal," the "Great Song Agricultural Daily," and the "Great Song Business Daily," which have been comprehensively dissatisfied with the landlord class of the Great Song Dynasty.

All kinds of opposition are rising, and although Xiong Sheng himself does not dare to confront Zhao Jiaren, he cannot stand on the position of fully supporting Zhao Jiaren. After thinking about it, Xiong Sheng persuaded: "Official, if that's the case, why don't you start a war against Tianzhu." Everyone has more things on the outside, and there will be less fire on the inside. ”

"Domestic contradictions are transferred abroad? Hehe. Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but sneer.

Xiong Sheng actually said it casually, he didn't want to be involved in such a thing at all. So Xiong Sheng immediately responded: "That's what I said." Don't mind, the officials. Most of our Xiong family is now renting the imperial court in the north to operate, and the little land at home doesn't matter at all. ”

Seeing that Zhao Jiaren had no intention of pursuing it, Xiong Sheng hurriedly left the end of the work report and left Zhao Jiaren. He was a little scared, and felt that he needed to be more cautious. It's about to happen, and it wouldn't be too bad if you didn't get into the house you should have because you were involved in meaningless disputes.