The great monks boarded the fleet and headed south, and news also came from Haizhou. This was sent by Song Jie, who went to the north, and the content had nothing to do with the north, and Song Jie told Zhao Jiaren in the letter, "Zhizhou, you can rent 200,000 mu of land in Haizhou and other places."

Zhao Jiaren originally just wanted to archive the letter, put the letter in the archived file basket for a while, and Zhao Jiaren took out the letter again. In the land of the four wars in Haizhou, the Great Song Dynasty and Mongolia fought a considerable degree of tug-of-war in that area. After a long period of elimination, the local people are strong, and the villages are built like fortresses. If it weren't for a specialized siege army, ordinary rogues wouldn't have been able to defeat those sparsely branched villages. Based on this situation, it is not uncommon for the local land to be unused, let alone 200,000 acres of land, and 1 million acres.

After thinking about it, Zhao Jiaren felt that he couldn't turn a blind eye to this no matter what, so he simply invited Sima Kao here.

After listening to Zhao Jiaren's opinion, the retired jinshi was at a loss for a while. After it took more than ten seconds to return to normal, Sima Kao asked in disbelief, "Brother Zhao wants me to go to see the Mongolian lord?" ”

"Scared?" Zhao Jiaren asked with a smile.

If the mind is not mature enough, the first reaction when you hear this is to firmly deny it. Sima Kao was like this, his look of fear was diluted by instinctive excitement at this moment, "I'm not afraid!" This sentence blurted out.

Since Sima Kao was a little baitted, Zhao Jiaren smiled and said: "The Mongols attach great importance to the envoy. Generally speaking, even if the envoy said something unpleasant, Mongolia would not embarrass the envoy. In this regard, I think our Great Song Dynasty is inferior to the Mongols. ”

Jinshi is not a fool, after hearing this, Sima Kao found that he seemed to be a little tricked by Zhao Jiaren. After all, he has been here with Zhao Jiaren for a while, and he knows the rules of Zhao Jiaren's side, and everything he promises must be carried out to the end. After thinking for a moment, Sima Kao said with a dark face: "I...... It's a little scary. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Jiaren was moved in his heart. It is probably more difficult to get the Jinshi of the Great Song Dynasty to tell the truth, especially to frankly admit that he feels fear, than to kill them. For such honesty, Zhao Jiaren felt that he must be respected and encouraged.

"If I were to go, I would be afraid."

Hearing Zhao Jiaren say this, Sima Kao raised his head. Zhao Jiaren on the opposite side did not have the slightest ridiculous expression, and Sima Kao could feel Zhao Jiaren's serious attitude. Then Sima Kao suddenly had an impulse in his heart, and he wanted to accuse Zhao Jiaren, 'Since you all know the danger, why did you let me go?!' ’

This accusation of the literati Fan was not spoken. Because Sima Kao remembered Zhao Jiaren's men, they dared to sail thousands of miles, and they dared to fight face-to-face with the enemy. That's why Zhao Jiaren didn't need to hire any jinshi to have such a powerful power.

"When I see the words of the Great Khan of the Mongols, what do I say to him?" Sima Kao asked.

"I wanted to farm in Haizhou, so I agreed that the Mongol army would not invade Haizhou for three years." Zhao Jiaren said it very bluntly. If you want to reclaim land in the Haizhou area, in order to prevent the Mongol army from possibly fighting the grass valley, the biggest cost at the moment is military investment. If the Mongol army can be stopped for two years, Zhao Jiaren can save a lot of money.

Hearing such a peaceful mission, Sima Kao asked again: "Do you really not have to worry about being arrested or killed?" ”

"There is no perfect way in the world. What I'm going to say later doesn't mean anything else, Brother Sima, it is possible to be shipwrecked by boat, and we southerners may fall ill when we go to the north because of the lack of adaptation to the water and soil. The Mongols are only one of the possibilities that they will poison you, if Brother Sima is not willing to go, the matter will be stopped. ”

Sima Kao was a jinshi after all, he quickly straightened out his mood and said bluntly: "I came back this time to enjoy the treatment of cadres." ”

"Yes." Zhao Jiaren replied happily.

According to the system, Sima must receive corresponding training before being sent to the embassy. On the second day of the training, Sima Kao came to Zhao Jiaren, and he asked nervously: "Brother Zhao, is it difficult for us to sell artillery to Mongolia?" ”

"Yes." Zhao Jiaren replied. This time I want to convince Mongolia, Zhao Jiaren is ready to sell more artillery to Mongolia, and the Mongolians cannot choose peace because Zhao Jiaren said that they want peace, and they will definitely make demands.

"Brother Zhao, are you sure that the Mongols have imitated artillery since the Battle of Ezhou?" Sima Kao asked solemnly.

Thinking of the artillery imitated by the Mongols, Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but smile on his face. At that time, he seized the copper cannons of the Mongols and got tens of thousands of catties of copper, which was considered a small fortune. "We captured the bronze cannons of the Mongols, of course. In addition, Liu Cheng defected to the Mongols with military ships and artillery, and the Mongols attached great importance to it. ”

"We sell artillery to the Mongols, and the Mongols will become stronger!" Sima Kao's question is very ordinary.

To this kind of question, Zhao Jiaren replied unhappily: "I can build more artillery, much more than the Mongols." If the Mongols had more artillery purchased from us at a high price, our Great Song would not be able to hold it. That can only say that the Great Song Dynasty just can't hold on. We don't sell artillery to the Mongols, the Great Song still can't hold it! ”

Just two days after Sima Kao's training, cotton from Huating County began to arrive in Fuzhou. The Zhang family said that his family's land had been acquired by the imperial court in the public land reform. According to the system of public land reform, the Zhang family had 200 acres of land left, and they said in the letter that the 200 acres of land would not be planted with cotton, but with grain. As for cotton, Zhao Jiaren asked for more blessings.

Because of this, Zhao Jiaren became even more unhappy with the Lin'an court. If Jia Yidao really wants to solve the problem through the reform of public land, then he should lease the land of the entire Huating County and even Jiaxing Mansion to Zhao Jiaren, so that Zhao Jiaren can grow cotton in this area. In turn, the imperial court obtained a large amount of money through the cotton monopoly. The central government is so incompetent that it should quickly fall down and let Zhao Jiaren be the master.

Sima Kao didn't know the hatred in Zhao Jiaren's heart, and after hearing Zhao Jiaren's words that he had more artillery than the Mongols, Sima Kao found this very convincing. He replied: "Since Brother Zhao said so, I think it is reasonable. "It was not the regular army of the Great Song Dynasty that defeated the Mongolian naval army on the Yangtze River, but the militia led by Zhao Jiaren. If Mongolia continues to move south, it will probably have to be Zhao Jiaren's contribution.

During the training, he was vaccinated, and after the training, Sima Kao took a boat to the north. Like most people who went to the south, Sima Kao's first feeling after disembarking from the boat in Zhigu Village was that the weather in the north was much different from that in the south. The dry autumn made Sima Kao feel very good.

Things went very smoothly, and it went beyond imagination. When Sima Kao went to Dadu, the receptionist heard that Sima Kao was a jinshi, and his attitude was immediately very respectful. On the way, the two chatted, and Sima Kao learned that this Hanchen was actually a scholar. With Sima's current level, he felt that the level of this northern scholar was just like that, and he didn't want to gain fame in the Southern Song Dynasty in his life. Of course, Sima Kao will not express his opinion publicly.

Talking about the matter of studying, the Hanchen sighed: "I don't know when we Mongolia will be able to resume the imperial examination." ”

Hearing this exclamation, Sima Kao's first thought was that Mongolia was not China. Zhao Jiaren had a newspaper in Fuzhou and Quanzhou, and he often wrote articles about the surrounding countries of the Great Song Dynasty in the newspaper. For the common people, these newspapers were their only source of information about foreign countries. Even for a well-read jinshi like Sima Kao, the importance of newspapers is indispensable. At least Sima Kao's overall impression of Mongolia comes from the newspapers.

In the newspapers, the articles about Mongolia repeatedly emphasize one thing: Mongolia is not China. For the sake of China, it was necessary to resist the Mongol invasion. One of the essays that impressed Sima Kao was his analysis of the Jin Kingdom and the Mongols. The article tells the history of the Jin State adopting the imperial examination system, and today, decades after the destruction of the Jin Dynasty, Mongolia has not carried out the imperial examination, and Mongolia has no plans to conduct the imperial examination in the future.

If the Great Song Dynasty was wiped out by the Mongols, the imperial examinations that had shaped Sima Kao's current status would have been cancelled. Just thinking about this result, Sima Kao felt uncomfortable and felt a sense of identity in resisting the Mongol invasion. And this northern Hanchen's envious speech on the Great Song Imperial Examination strengthened Sima Kao's view.

Sima Kao said to Han Chen: "Don't worry, there will be the imperial examination, and the officials will be Confucian ministers." Everything will be there. ”

Being so encouraged by the Zhengpai Jinshi of the Southern Dynasty, Hanchen showed a longing expression of 'I hope that day will come as soon as possible'.

When he arrived in Dadu, Sima Kao began to move around. According to the intelligence, he went to visit the current ruling Lion Hee-hee-heon. According to the intelligence, in the middle of the Mongolian Lianxi Xian Guanzhong, the Song Dynasty gave his family members food in the north; Those who are in the Song Dynasty, their children have to cross the border to save their relatives, and everyone feels it.

This ruling Lian Xixian is certainly not a pro-Song faction, but this person must be a rational faction, and the advantage of rationalists is that they can negotiate conditions. This ruling man has a high nose and deep eyes, and he doesn't look like a Han Chinese at first glance, but he speaks it fluently. After listening to Zhao Jiaren's purpose, Lian Xixian said at the time that this request was inexplicable, "Since the fight against my southern Mongolian expedition, it has been the Great Song Dynasty that has been provoking wars. Didn't Zhao Zhizhou also conquer our Zhigu Village? Now Zhao Zhizhou wants us not to use troops against Haizhou, which is really inexplicable. ”

These words did not exceed Sima Kao's previous preparation and replied: "There was Li Pu before, and my Great Song Dynasty will only send troops out of Huaidong." Now that Li Pu has been destroyed, the war between the Great Song Dynasty and Mongolia is Xiangyang and Fancheng. Mongolia is building a walled city over there, and everyone is afraid that they will not fight on the Huaidong side. In that case, what's the point of making an agreement? ”

Listening to Sima Kao's words, Lian Xixian's face changed slightly. It can be seen that Zhao Jiaren's judgment of the situation has touched the Mongolian ruler very much. After a moment of silence, Lian Xixian asked, "Is this what Zhao Zhizhou meant?" ”

"Yes." Sima Kao replied bluntly. This is also the routine determined in the deduction done before the departure.

Having received a clear answer, Lian Xixian hastily ended the talks. After settling Sima Kao, Lian Xixian immediately went to see Kublai Khan. At this time, Kublai Khan was seeing Prime Minister Shi Tianze, and when he heard that Lian Xixian was coming, he directly called Lian Xixian in and said to the two: "I may take advantage of my anger to kill him, and I should stay for a day or two late and repeat it." ”

Hearing this, Lian Xixian was overjoyed. This Mongolian Khan has a very excited personality and often listens to the meaning of wind and rain. So he became angry, and shouted that he would cut off XX's tongue and dismantle XX into eight pieces. And many times the ministers took advantage of this impulse of the Great Khan to kill some people who should not have been killed so much for Kublai Khan. If Kublai Khan's speech was not a whim, it seems that the Great Khan of Mongolia had realized something.

However, neither of them talked nonsense, but bowed their heads and responded: "Obey!" ”

After some kind of restraint on his own radical actions, Kublai Khan asked, "What is the matter with Xixian?" ”

Lian Xixian immediately replied: "Zhao Jiaren is only afraid that he already knows our plan to attack Xiangyang and Fancheng. ”

Kublai Khan and Shi Tianze were both stunned. Lian Xixian told Kublai Khan what Sima Kao had talked about when he came this time.

After listening to the whole content, Kublai Khan and Shi Tianze both nodded slightly. Lian Xixian was right, Zhao Jiaren's judgment on the east to ask for peace was naturally based on the fact that Mongolia would not fight in the east, and the fierce battle between the two sides would be Xiangyang and Fancheng. And this undoubtedly sees through Mongolia's strategic layout.

Being seen through this, Kublai Khan was not particularly excited, he smiled: "I don't know if it was Zhao Jiaren or Jia Nidao who came up with this." While Jia Rudao violently attacked the head of the Great Song army, he also put the capable and loyal Lu Wende in Xiangyang. The Mongol court believed that as long as it could defeat Lü Wende, it would be able to solve the Southern Song Dynasty.

The Great Khan can make such a rough speech with arrogance, and his subordinates don't have such time. Shi Tianze couldn't help but ask: "Could it be some trick by Zhao Jiaren?" ”

Lian Xixian had the same opinion at first, but after thinking about it all the way, he felt that it was probably not the case. "If Zhao Jiaren is the governor of Yangzhou, the two Huai appeasement envoys. Doing so can be said to be a military tun. But Zhao Jiaren just wants to be in the Haizhou area, and since we are fighting Lu Wende in Xiangyang, we will at most put a partial division in Haizhou to contain it. What's more, Zhao Jiaren only needs three years, and it will take us about two years to get started. Therefore......, even if there is fraud, it may not be a big deal. ”

Shi Tianze felt that Lian Xixian didn't say anything, and all the statements were just speculation. Zhao Jiaren has always done things unexpectedly, this Great Song Zhizhou is the one who has dealt with Mongolia the most so far, and he is also the one who has done great harm to Mongolia so far. Who would have thought that he would be able to conquer Zhigu Village and faintly threaten Dadu.

Without waiting for Shi Tianze to speak, Kublai Khan smiled and said, "Since you don't know, then call Zhao Jiaren's envoy to ask." I'd love to see what the people around Zhao Jiaren think of him. ”

Sima Kao didn't expect that he would really be able to meet Kublai Khan, but he still met Kublai Khan so soon. Not only Kublai Khan, but also important Mongolian ministers accompanied Kublai Khan. Looking at those Mongolians with thin eyes and round faces, people from the Western Regions with high noses and deep eyes, people with high noses and deep eyes, blue eyes, green eyes and yellow eyes, and some Hanchen. Sima Kao felt that Mongolia was different from what he imagined, but it was very similar to what was written in the newspapers. In the Mongol court, there were all kinds of people, and they were all in the service of the Mongol Great Khan.

Shi Tianze took the lead in raising the question, "But I don't know what Zhao Zhizhou wants to plant in Haizhou?" ”

Sima Kao actually wanted to answer, what are we doing in Da Song to do your. But with the current strength of the Great Song Dynasty, this is really unspeakable. The Mongols just have the ability to make it difficult for Zhao Jiaren to farm. So Sima Kao replied, "Plant soybeans." ”

"What about after planting soybeans?" Shi Tianze continued to ask.

Faced with cross-examination, Sima Kao replied frankly: "Soybean oil is valuable, and after planting soybeans, it is natural to extract oil and sell it for money." ”

After a few more words of inquiry, Shi Tianze felt that he couldn't continue to ask. What Sima Kao said was very straightforward, and he couldn't find anything wrong. Taking advantage of the abundance of wasteland in Haizhou, there is no problem in making a hard vote. Shi Tianze looked at Kublai Khan and wanted to hear what the Great Khan meant.

Kublai Khan spoke, "Mr. Sima must have seen Zhao Zhizhou often." ”

"Yes." Sima Kao replied.

After receiving a clear answer, Kublai Khan asked with interest: "What kind of person is this Zhao Zhizhou?" ”

"Ahh The distant Zhao Jiaren sneezed. He rubbed his nose and sighed in his heart that Lin'an was actually quite cold in winter. At this time, Zhao Jiaren was in Lin'an, because Jia Xianggong ordered Zhao Jiaren to enter Beijing with an official document.

"Does Zhao Zhizhou catch a cold?" Jia Rudao on the other side asked gently.

Zhao Jiaren smiled, but did not answer. He knew that Jia Rudao didn't care about Zhao Jiaren's body at all, and his words were just polite.

Jia Nidao was indeed not polite, Zhao Jiaren did not mention the quality of his body, and Jia Nidao continued to speak: "Jiaren." I invite you to come here this time to talk about cotton affairs. The official family has decided to implement cotton affairs, but I don't know what Jiaren thinks? ”

Zhao Jiaren immediately replied: "I said before that if I was asked to rectify the cotton business, I would let me rent the entire land in Jiaxing Mansion to grow cotton. Jia Gong, if there is no land for growing cotton, everything we say will be in vain. ”

More than half a year ago, Zhao Jiaren also said the same thing to Jia Nidao, and at that time, Jia Nidao was cold and noncommittal. This time Zhao Jiaren said again, Jia Rudao showed a confident smile on his face, "I'm afraid that the land of the entire Jiaxing Mansion is not good, but there is only a little place under the Jiaxing Mansion, and the imperial court has received a lot of land in Huating County, and the land in Huating County can be rented to Jiaren." As for Jiaxing Mansion, you yourself discuss this matter with the locals. ”

The prime minister is the height of the prime minister, Jia Rudao said this, in fact, he told Zhao Jiaren that this matter can be done. What is called discussing with the local government, that is just an excuse for Jia Yidao not to make things too big. Zhao Jiaren really wants to rent land, Jia seems to be embarrassed and won't say hello to Jiaxing Mansion.

When the land problem was solved, Zhao Jiaren asked Jia Yidao: "How is Jia Gong going to divide the money?" ”

"50,000 pieces of cloth a year, and another million copper coins." When Jia Nidao's land problem was solved, Zhao Jiaren asked Jia Rudao: "Then how is Jia Gong going to divide the money?" ”

"50,000 pieces of cloth a year, and another million copper coins." Jia Rudao