Chapter 32: Returning to the Old Capital (3)

The fleet went all the way north, and Qin Yuzhen felt a noticeable difference. In Jiangnan, there is always a feeling of water vapor shrouded in the surroundings. Qin Yuzhen didn't realize these things before, until the fleet crossed the Huai River and entered the northern section of the Tongji Canal, Qin Yuzhen finally felt that she had lived in that environment for more than 50 years.

When the warm, moist feeling fades, the air is the same. Not long ago, it was the rainy season in Jiangnan, and the dark clouds were hanging low as if they were within reach. The blue sky in the Central Plains seems to be higher and farther than in the south of the Yangtze River, and there is an ethereal spirit that cannot be touched.

The fleet finally stopped at the canal wharf outside Kaifeng City, Qin Yuzhen stood on the deck, and saw many people and horses who came to greet her at a glance, and it was her eldest son Zhao Qian who stood at the front. Then Qin Yuzhen heard Zhao Jiaren beside him smile and said, "Get off the boat, we're home!" ”

Zhao Guan's family went north so suddenly, which caught many people off guard, and Zhao Qian was one of them. However, Zhao Qian had been a soldier and understood that the plan could not catch up with the inevitability of change. The battlefield is changing rapidly, and the seemingly hearty victory must be the result of the gathering of various orders sooner or later and improperly executed. If every order is carried out perfectly, the battle will be very bad.

So Zhao Qian stood calmly in the front row and waited, and when he saw his mother holding his father's arm and walking down from the wide springboard, Zhao Qian immediately stepped forward and said, "Mother, you are here!" ”

Zhao Jiaren didn't fight for this jackpot, and then he heard his son Zhao Qian say: "Dad, you have worked hard all the way." ”

As soon as Zhao Guanjia nodded, the officials who followed Zhao Qian immediately followed up to greet him. The etiquette is not complicated, but there are too many people. By the time this etiquette had passed, it had already taken up half an hour. Everyone got on the carriage and horses, and the guard regiment led the way, and the people and horses entered the old capital of the Great Song Dynasty.

Waiting for Zhao Guan's family to enter the main hall of the old palace, he symbolically sat down on the dragon chair, knelt down on the left and right civil and military and saluted, and shouted long live three times. The political center of the Great Song Dynasty was officially moved back to Kaifeng from Hangzhou.

In the next ten days, Zhao Jiaren was always busy with various etiquettes. The first thing he did when he returned to the old capital was to take the empress and the eldest prince Zhao Qian to the Zhao Emperor's Mausoleum in Gongxian County to pay respects and inform the ancestors that the Great Song Dynasty had washed the shame of Jingkang with the blood of the barbarians.

As a great gift for this worship, the coffins of the puppet kings of the Jin Kingdom have been dug up, and a yin prison has been established in the tomb area of the Great Song Dynasty, and those coffins are buried in it.

After the ceremony, Qin Yuzhen asked a little reproachfully, "Does this count as digging a grave?" ”

"Hah! You think too highly of the Mongols. Zhao Jiaren said with a smile.

"What does this have to do with the Mongols?" Qin Yuzhen asked puzzled.

"The Jin people dug up the tombs of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Mongols also dug up the imperial tombs of the Jin Kingdom after destroying the Jin Kingdom, and when we went, most of those tombs were empty. Many of the coffins of the puppet kings of the Jin Kingdom buried here are empty. God knows where the bones of those puppet kings have gone. ”

"Huh?" Qin Yuzhen was shocked by this description. But thinking that the Mongols also dug up the tombs of the emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty, Qin Yuzhen also felt that she was a little stupid to make such a fuss. She regained her composure, but she was still curious, "Is it so clean to be dug up?" Nothing left? ”

"There's very little left. I have ordered the Jinguo Mausoleum to be turned into a park and museum, and everything I found is on display in the museum. After a while, maybe we can hold an exhibition in Kaifeng. ”

“…… If you do this, aren't you afraid that the spirit of your ancestors in heaven will accuse you of cheating? ”

“…… I don't believe in the spirits of heaven. Even if there is, they should be happy to know that I have restored the Han family. I really stuffed some bones in the coffin, God knows whose bones pretended to be the puppet king of the Jin Kingdom, and it was a fraud. I specially brought the bones of the Jin Aizong in the prison of Dali Temple in Hangzhou, and this must be genuine. ”

Qin Yuzhen didn't want to argue with Zhao Jiaren about this anymore. When it comes to bones, Zhao Jiaren has an indescribable indifference, as if they are just a few bones. This is what Qin Yuzhen doesn't like very much.

After reporting to the ancestral tomb of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Jiaren returned to Kaifeng. At this time, the ceremonial work of moving the capital came to an end. Because of the lack of adaptation, Zhao Jiaren and his wife, who began to have diarrhea, were finally able to rest for a few days. Other ministries also began to arrive in Kaifeng at this time, and the first to arrive was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Administration, and the Ministry of War. The Minister gave an update on the international situation, and the surrender of the Kingdom of Tianzhu near Mumbai was fought by the Sinhalese native soldiers. Since then, the Great Song Dynasty has officially owned the management of half of the land on the Tianzhu Peninsula.

This also meant that the Great Song could set up a telegraph network from Mumbai to Sinhala, and once completed, the transmission time from Europa was reduced by three days. As for the telegraph network from Mumbai to Kaifeng, it is estimated that it will be completed in 15 to 20 years.

"When will those vassal kings arrive in Kaifeng?" Zhao Jiaren asked. As soon as he thought of the third brother of Tianzhu, Zhao Jiaren thought of the water of the Ganges River, and even his stomach, which felt better, became a little uncomfortable again.

"It's hard to say. Will come in about a year. Luo Yiren replied honestly.

After the Minister finished speaking, the Foreign Minister gave an update on Europa. There has been no movement on the Yuan side, but the Holy Roman Empire has already sent troops south to attack the Western Roman Empire. Because the relationship between the Western Roman Empire and the Athens County of the Great Song Europa Province is a bitter relationship, the Great Song Europa Province has mobilized a transport fleet and is ready to help the Western Roman Empire resist this wave of barbarian invasions.

Hearing the words 'barbarian invasion', Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but laugh. Lu Baifeng also laughed a few times, he chose words and sentences like this to make Bo Guan's family laugh.

"Barbarian invasion. Well used. Zhao Jiaren sighed. He didn't expect that the world line at this time would show signs of jumping back to more than a thousand years ago.

More than 1,000 years ago, the power of the Italian Republic finally expanded into the northern part of the Italian peninsula, and then it was invaded by the three Germanic Teutonic kings. That 'Teutonic Tragedy' was completely different from the 'Teutonic Tragedy' that followed in the Teutonic Forest. The Roman Republic revolutionized the Roman Republic by building a professional army to defend itself against Germanic invasions.

After eliminating the armies of the Teutonic kings, the Roman Republic continued to expand, and as the Republic turned to the Empire, Roman legions were stationed thousands of miles away near the Teutonic Forest, the old nest of the Germanic people. As a result, the elite legions of the Roman professional army were wiped out in the Teutonic Forest. Rome could no longer expand to the north.

This time the Germanic people went south, whether it promoted the rise of the Western Roman Empire or the destruction of the Western Roman Empire, this scene is very interesting.