The latest news of the negotiations was quickly sent to Da Song's side, and he listened to Xiong Shangshu's briefing. Zhao Jiaren smiled: "It seems that it is not possible to pretend to be pitiful." ”

"What are we going to pretend to be pitiful?" Sun Qing was a little incomprehensible.

Zhao Jiaren replied in a relaxed tone: "If Mongolia says something condescendingly, we can publicize it in the newspaper." After seeing it, the people of the Great Song Dynasty will probably feel that Mongolia is not dead, and then they can decide to solve Mongolia. ”

"If the officials want to publicize it like this, we can tell the people like this." Xiong Sheng did not hesitate to express his coping philosophy.

Haha, hehe, hehe. The other Shangshu and ministers couldn't help but laugh when they heard this. Zhao Jiaren also smiled, and he said cheerfully: "I don't like to pretend to be pitiful. Since the Mongols said so, we told the Mongols that we did not believe them. ”

"Wouldn't that make this negotiation a sham?" Xiong replied.

"The south side is almost finished. The latest news has arrived, we have taken all the cities of Srivijaya in the strait, and the Sriwijaya have been beaten inland. The rest is the island of Java. As long as you take the city on the island of Java, you can negotiate peace with the local nobles. If the nobles don't agree, we can also directly use the captives to serve us. After that, troops can be transferred to the north to prepare for war. ”

In this way, everyone also understood what Zhao Guanjia meant. Since the south has been determined and the armor is sufficient, it should be rewarded to lead the three armies, set the Central Plains in the north, eliminate the traitors, and restore the Han Dynasty.

"I once said that what I want to do is mix up a Chinese culture. Of course, this big goal cannot be achieved overnight, and the goal of the Northern Expedition is not simply to fight for Hebei. I ask you, if it were not for the Northern Expedition, who would dare to dare to cultivate on the great plains south of the Yellow River with confidence. ”

"Hmm." The Shangshu and ministers nodded their heads. This is a completely conceivable thing, and the Great Song Dynasty is still far from the point where people will starve to death without arable land on the south bank of the Yellow River. Although there are many problems in the South, there is a vast space available in the South. Farming south of the Yellow River, what to do in case the Mongol cavalry rushed in and killed people everywhere. Lives matter.

However, after the recovery of Hebei, the whole situation was completely different. Unless the Mongols could fly over, they would not have made it to the south of the Yellow River. At that time, the Great Song Dynasty could really mobilize manpower to open up the wasteland south of the Yellow River. The vast Huanghuai Plain is not a matter of accommodating 30 million people. And the Great Song Dynasty has a population of 80 million so far.

When this matter was confirmed, Sun Qing put forward the recent statement about the steam engine in the upper layer. The upper echelons of the Great Song Dynasty were very interested in this kind of thing, after all, they were the first group to enjoy it directly. Zhao Guanjia thinks that it is very important for the upper echelons to have access to the latest technology, generally speaking, the upper echelons are guys who have no sense of the latest developments, and they only care about the power in their hands, and more power.

"The steam engine is a good thing. But the problem now is instability. Zhao Jiaren said to a group of scholars and ministers.

Everyone looked at Zhao Guan's house, and then turned their heads to look at the Ministry of Industry. The Ministry of Industry Shangshu had a proud expression on his face, and accepted everyone's eyes without care. Zhao Jiaren himself understands science and technology, of course, he will not let the Ministry of Industry Shangshu be so hit, he continued: "Anything will not be very good when it first comes out, the key is whether this thing can meet everyone's needs." ”

"Official, I think the boiler is good. The boiler can boil the bath water and steam the rice. After using it, it feels really good. Zheng Jie, chief of the general staff of the Ministry of War, immediately praised the new technology.

Of course, everyone knows the relationship between the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry, Xiong Sheng said with a smile: "If that's the case, each of our departments has to install a boiler." ”

The Ministry of Industry Shangshu immediately responded: "Now that the office space of each department has just been completed, the size of the boiler also needs to be decided according to the number of users. Big horse-drawn carts, will be wasted. A small horse-drawn cart will not be able to pull it. This needs to be addressed on a case-by-case basis. ”

"Cut ......" someone questioned the words of the Ministry of Industry Shangshu in a strange voice.

Zhao Jiaren diverted the topic again, "Sun Shangshu, I think we can implement public bathhouses in Hangzhou." ”

"Why do you want to introduce public baths?" Sun Qing asked in surprise, sometimes Zhao Guan's thinking jumped very much.

"You can charge a fee." Zhao Jiaren smiled, "You have your own bathroom in your house, do you think other people's homes are the same?" Do you think it's cool to take a bath, but if it's hard for others, you don't think it's okay to take a bath? ”

"But how much money does this thing make?" Sun Qing was very puzzled.

"It's not how much money this thing can make. But as long as you can make money under the conditions of using boilers and steam engines, this has greatly boosted the economy. Originally, boilers and steam engines were made with taxes. Once there is an external order, it means that these industries can support themselves. Even if the bathhouse only earns a penny in the end, it means that these whole things are making money. ”

Seeing the simple smile of Zhao Guanjia, Shang Shu and the ministers began to bow their heads. This smile shows that Zhao Guanjia thinks that the concept he put forward is correct, and then he will unswervingly implement it. It's not that everyone looks down on Zhao Guanjia, but Zhao Guanjia's idea is to jump out of thin air with some ideas, and then let everyone implement them. Even if you draw a very complete pattern, you will inevitably encounter various problems when executing it.

Sun Qing sighed, "As ordered by the official family, I will definitely find someone to do it." ”

"Get someone over as soon as possible, and I'll tell him what to do." Zhao Jiaren said with a smile.

Although many of us are cadres, we have been in contact with those officials for so long, and we will also communicate privately. So the cadres finally learned a lot of new things from the officials.

Generally speaking, the official family has legitimacy and has read a lot of books, so they belong to people who do not know anything other than personnel struggle and personnel management. Although it is the duty of the officials to be proficient in personnel struggles and management, there are also a minority of officials in the past who are proficient in their own work.

The Zhao official family is a minority of the official family, and only those founding kings have rich practical experience. Or Qin Shi Huang's kind of hard-working person who must read how many catties of books every day. Zhao Guanjia is a person with rich practical experience, and he himself is also a scholar.

Such an official family is very remarkable, but such an official family makes the subordinates very painful. The boss knows everything, and the people below will have a hard time.

Now Sun Qing feels like this. If the Zhao official family directly accomplishes the matter, what should he Sun Qing do? So Sun Qing said decisively: "It's better to ask the official family to teach me." ”