"Lucid waters and lush mountains depend on the source." Priest Polo shook his head and read the headline on the front page of the Great Song Daily on November 6.

The Venetian priest was obsessed with the feeling of the Chinese language, which could be described in elegant words, no matter how prosaic or complex semantics. Neither Italian, Greek, nor Latin can do that. Compared with the emotion of the text, the introduction of 'Jiangning Governor Wenzhang and others held a meeting with the leaders of several prefectures and counties in the upper reaches of the Qinhuai River to discuss the issue of water management' did not arouse the slightest interest of the Polo priests.

As a Semu person, he was greatly restricted in the Great Song Dynasty. On the territory of Mongolia, the Mongols were the first class, the Semu people were the second class, the Hui were the third class, and the Han people were the fourth class. In the land of the Great Song Dynasty, the Han people were the first class of people, and the Han people's vassals were the second class people. The Mongols, Semu, and Hui are all enemy nationals. With the Mongolian embassy certificate, there are many restrictions on walking in Hangzhou, let alone traveling as far away as Jiangning.

On 7 November, the Polo priest returned home with a certain number of newspapers and books. Because the Mongols did not have ships that could cross the sea to reach the Great Song Dynasty, there were many restrictions on carrying newspapers and books, and some of these things had to be hidden. Fortunately, the Baltic priests were included in the ranks of diplomats, and their luggage was less restricted. 100 pounds of newspapers and books finally boarded the ship.

Looking at the Song people on the dock who were bidding farewell to their relatives, Priest Polo thought that he would probably never be able to come to the Great Song Dynasty again in his lifetime, and he couldn't help but feel sad. Agitated by emotion, the Polo priest shouted in Italian: "Goodbye, Great Song! Goodbye, China! Goodbye, wine, food, bathhouse, oil! God bless you all. ”

This howl did not elicit a special reaction, and at this parting dock, the emotions of the parting person were naturally enriched. Ignoring the emotions of the parting people, the steamer left the dock on time and sailed to a fixed course. Now the north wind has risen, from the Zhedong Canal to Ningbo, after changing ships, all the way to the south.

By 27 November, when the ships reached the northern end of the Red Sea, the Baltic priests saw a canal. After a few hours of going north along the canal, the water suddenly opened up and a huge lake appeared. This is completely different from the situation in the memory of the Baltic priests.

After three days, the Great Song Dynasty's steamer ship turned north, sailed across the turbid Nile, and sailed into the blue Mediterranean. The magical journey didn't end there, as the ship replenished its water and fuel in the harbor and set off north again. The steamship passed through Constantinople, the capital of Eastern Rome, and crossed the strait into the Black Sea under the watchful eyes of other ships. After several days of sailing, it finally docked at the port of the Crimean peninsula, its destination.

At this time, it was December 7, 328 of the Great Song Dynasty. The Mongolian mission on the ship did not have time to rest, they went north along the official road, and it took half a month to reach the capital of the Yuan country, Kiev.

Hao Ren was naturally extremely happy when he heard the news of the return of the Yuan State Mission. He first sent to the members of the mission, condoled with them, praised them for their toil, and gave them a good rest for two days. Two days later, Hao Ren will hold a banquet for them.

Just when the members of the mission were cheering for this honor, Hao Ren received the Egyptian envoy who came with the ship, and after seeing Hao Ren saluting, the envoy immediately took out a letter, "Lord, this is our letter from the marshal. ”

The letter was written in Chinese, and it can be seen that Marshal Boyan fully respected Hao Ren's habits. In the letter, Boyan said that he agreed with Hao Ren's suggestion to establish an intelligence liaison station between Egypt and the Yuan Kingdom in Constantinople, and that in the future, the two sides would try to discuss economic cooperation at the liaison station in Constantinople. There is no need to send people around for thousands of miles.

Hao Ren was happy in his heart, and of course he hoped that such an agreement could be reached. Raising his head, Hao Ren asked, "But I don't know who Marshal Boyan is going to send to Constantinople?" ”

"It's a giveaway named Charlotte."

Such an answer surprised Hao Ren, "Why not Mongolians?" ”

"This is the arrangement of Marshal Boyan." The messenger skillfully sealed Hao Ren's question.

Hao Ren was just surprised, and didn't care about Boyan's decision. Looking at it again, it was another piece of good news, Boyan informed Hao Ren that he had returned the Song people in his hands, and the Baghdad side also released the detained Great Song envoy. Therefore, Boyan thought that he could cooperate with the Great Song Dynasty in the Mediterranean.

"Your handsome family just said that he wanted to cooperate, but he didn't know how to cooperate?" Seeing that there was only so much written in the letter, Hao Ren asked the messenger.

The marshal said that he would never allow the Song State to control the canal, let alone allow the Song State to send troops into the Mediterranean. In addition, Dashuai wanted to fully cooperate with Song Guo. ”

"Tell you about the handsome, I completely agree with him." Hao Ren replied briskly.

Looking further down, it's more concrete cooperation. Boyan told Hao Ren that if he had a male slave who could not be used after being caught, he might as well sell it to Boyan. Boyan could use male slaves to exchange slaves for slaves in countries further south. Slave men of different colors were very popular on the black side of the south.

After hearing this, Hao Ren joked: "Why don't you big marshal want a female slave here?" ”

The envoy Zhengse said: "The marshal said that the female slave prince still has to keep it and distribute it to the meritorious subordinates, so I won't say these words that annoy the prince here." ”

Hao Ren was speechless for a while. From these words, I can indeed hear a super serious flavor of Boyan Dashuai, but he still remains serious in these things, which makes Hao Ren feel inexplicably funny.

This concludes the letter. Hao Ren asked Boyan's envoy to go down to rest, but he heard the envoy say: "In addition, the marshal of my family asked me to bring a message, and he heard that someone was complaining that a certain important minister had suggested to the Great Khan that the crown prince should be in charge of the country. The Great Khan was furious. It's just that I haven't caught that person now, and I haven't seen the so-called twists and turns. At this point, it is temporarily suspended. ”

Hao Ren was stunned. After a while, he barely recovered, and continued to ask, "Is there anything else?" ”

"No more. That's all. ”

"Then you go and rest first. In two days, I will give you the letter that I brought back to your family. ”

After arranging the envoy, Hao Ren only felt a little tired, and now what he wanted to forget most was the Great Khan's Golden Horde in Baghdad. The current Mongol Great Khan and the Khans of the Four Great Khanates have one thing in common, that is, their mothers are concubines. Hao Ren's grandmother and mother were not concubines, so he had to rely entirely on his own efforts.

Fortunately, Kublai Khan remembered Hao Ren's merits, so he gave Hao Ren Kievan Rus, a land that had long been thrown aside, as a starting point, and Hao Ren conquered the rest by himself. The ownership of this territory was only obtained because Hao Ren was a descendant of the Erjin family.

As for the rest of the places, they are all XX managers. For example, Kublai Khan's most important and trusted minister, Boyan, was the governor of Egypt and Jerusalem. Since he is the governor, this power will have to be withdrawn in the future. If this generation of Boyan Dashuai does not take it back, the next generation will also take it back.

Having managed to escape from the grip of this terrible system, Hao Ren did not want to re-enter the whirlpool of Baghdad. Feeling upset, Hao Ren thought about it, and suddenly felt that he understood a little again. Boyan's information can also be used as a warning to warn Hao Ren not to touch this mold. If he accidentally dropped by to see the prince when he sent someone, even if it was a completely polite greeting, he was likely to be misunderstood by others.

Thinking of this, Hao Ren felt that he understood. He decided that when he sent a New Year's envoy this year, he must repeatedly explain that he was only allowed to greet the Great Khan Kublai Khan, and not to provoke anyone else.

Two days later, the meeting of the Reward Mission began. These people all had merit on their resumes, after which Hao Ren personally awarded the medal. As long as you go on a mission once, you will be given a medal. After that, according to the number of missions, other fragments are added to the medal. The members of the mission were very excited. Wearing a medal, not even speaking, proves personal merit. That's a glorious thing.

Seeing that their merits were recognized, the members of the mission were very happy, and some even shed tears of excitement. Hao Ren was also very happy in his heart, and he once again sighed that the Great Song Dynasty was simply a treasure trove, and there were countless places to learn from. Hao Ren and his subordinates had people who had been in the Red Turban Army before, and when they talked about the beheading medal of the Red Turban Army, Hao Ren was deeply impressed. Just use it.

The reward was followed by a banquet. After a few glasses of wine at the banquet, the members of the mission began to talk openly. The vast majority of people are praising the great convenience of the steam cars and ships of the Song Kingdom, and the canals of Egypt are very convenient. Hao Ren was not particularly moved by this, he just asked the members of the delegation to introduce more about the situation of the Great Song Dynasty.

Two months ago, the steam cars and ships of the Great Song Dynasty had passed through the canal and arrived in Odessa. After that, the Great Song fleet arrived here several times, bringing with them large quantities of metal products, cane sugar, spices, salt, and sugar. Hao Ren also had no gold or silver in his hands, so he could only use the coal mines of the Yuan Kingdom to trade with grain.

Now that he has seen it, Hao Ren has no sense of strangeness about steam cars and ships and canals. What he is most concerned about is what kind of changes have happened in the Great Song Dynasty, judging from the newspapers and books shipped this year, the Great Song Dynasty has changed to the point that it is completely beyond Hao Ren's imagination in these years. Zhao Jiaren had been praising the 'First Empire of the Qin and Han Dynasties' for a long time, and Hao Ren was curious to know what the First Empire of the Qin and Han Dynasties had been executed in the Great Song Dynasty.

After the banquet to entertain the mission, Hao Ren began a new reception, and this time it was the government soldiers who had entered the west. The government soldiers have all been cavalry, and their job is to go west, constantly attacking the local area. Kill men, snatch women and children. As Marshal Boyan said before, those women and children will be rewarded to meritorious families.

For these warriors, it is natural that serious rewards are more needed. Medals, wine, and banquets are indispensable.

After that, Hao Ren had to hold a meeting to discuss what to ask the commander of Egypt, Boyan, to do. After some discussion, he found that he did not have the slightest requirement except for asking Marshal Boyan to ensure that the trade route was unblocked. Just when everyone really didn't have anything to ask, someone finally asked: "Can you ask Marshal Boyan, he said before that the Song Kingdom was going to build a canal from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea." Is he ready to do what he had agreed to do? ”

Hao Ren looked up in surprise and saw that it was Chen Chulei, a new class jinshi. Now Chen Chulei is a civil official in the Ministry of Rites, mainly responsible for external affairs. For the present of the Yuan Kingdom, the reason why the Ministry of Rites existed was completely to imitate the Great Song Dynasty. didn't expect Chen Chulei to still think of this key point.

"Anything else?" Hao Ren asked.

"There were all kinds of people in the mission, and those who were literate could write their own reports. Can someone be sent to find someone who can't write a report and who can't read, and let them narrate it, and let the person who sent it record it? This increases the source of information. Chen Chulei continued to put forward his own suggestions.

Hao Ren nodded repeatedly. This suggestion is more reasonable, and those who are illiterate may not know much. So Hao Ren ordered: "It's up to you to choose someone and do this." ”

Listening to Hao Ren's arrangement, some people couldn't help but smile gloatingly. Isn't it uncomfortable for these people who have read books to look down on the illiterate, and to listen to the words of the illiterate guys, and to record them? Since it is what Chen Chulei said, let him experience the taste of it.

Hao Ren did not have the heart to make things difficult for his subordinates, he wrote a message, and also selected the envoy he sent to Constantinople. The news was transported through the steamships of the Great Song Dynasty, and only the steamships could travel between the ports very freely. If other ships were to be dispatched, it would have to wait a long time just to see the direction of the wind. If it is by paddling, the cost is sky-high.

After reading Hao Ren's letter, Boyan admired Hao Ren's keenness, whether it took a huge amount of effort to dig the entire canal, and Boyan was also hesitant. What he was most worried about was not that the Great Song Dynasty would forcibly take away this canal, the canal was hundreds of miles long, and how many troops the Great Song would have to send to defend the entire canal. Sinking a single ship in a canal can block the entire canal. Boyan is not without countermeasures.

What makes Boyan Marshal very concerned is the current situation, if Kublai Khan sees this canal that is extremely navigable, will he use any brains. Even if Kublai Khan didn't use his brains, would the others watch Boyan control such an important waterway?

This question made Boyan Dashuai very concerned. He asked Hao Ren's envoy, "What does your prince think about this?" ”

"Our prince said that if you look at it from his side, of course I hope that the big man can make a great project that will benefit the present generation and the future."

Hearing this, Boyan smiled rarely. But the smile was fleeting, as if it had never appeared at all. He sighed in his heart that Hao Ren had finally grown up. In the past, when Hao Ren was asked to tell this kind of big truth, he couldn't tell it anyway.

"The prince of our family said again, but this matter cannot be counted like this. So my prince said that if the marshal wants to build this complete canal, if something happens, our prince will definitely help. ”

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