"The Republic of Venice wants to take refuge under the Great Song Dynasty?" Yang calmly asked the Venetian envoy in a mocking tone.

"Yes, sir. We look forward to being sheltered by the Great Song. The Venetian envoy said in Italian. If he could, he would also like to use Chinese. However, Venice does not have the talent to do so.

"Why do you think we're going to be ...... for the little benefit you provide? And Western Rome turned on the other? ”

"If you take refuge in the Great Song Dynasty, you will not be slaughtered by the Mongols."

Yang Congrong never expected that the Venetian profiteers would be so frank and sincere at such a time, and he was almost amused to laugh. As a diplomat, Yang Congrong does not hate such straightforwardness at all. The Mongols' desire to slaughter Venice should have been very real.

After thinking for a moment, Yang calmly asked, "If we help you to negotiate with the Mongols, Venice will become a province of Western Rome, and Western Rome will not slaughter Venice." What do you think of this? ”

"Mongolia will pay us a lot of money now, and Mongolia will continue to tax Venice in the future. This should not be the fate of Venice. ”

Venice's reason made Yang Congrong a little moved, and he stabilized his emotions before continuing: "...... Why don't you talk to Mongolia about this? ”

"We fought against the Mongols, and when we were defeated, we were slaughtered. As far as we know, the Duchy of Milan fought with Florence and the Mongols in order to show the Mongols their will to resist and to negotiate a situation that would be more favorable to them. After their defeat, the Mongols slaughtered both places. The Great Song Dynasty would not be so barbaric. ”

Yang Congrong did not answer immediately, he asked the Venetian envoy to go down first. After the Venetian profiteer left, Yang calmly asked his colleagues who were attending the meeting, "Do you understand what's going on?" ”

A few of them were also a little confused, and they never got to the point after a few conversations, and they couldn't figure out what the Venetians wanted. In confusion, the young clerk next to him couldn't help but say, "I want to say, okay?" ”

"Tell me about it." Yang smiled calmly.

"Those Venetians think money is more important than life."

"What nonsense." The deputy director, who felt that the limelight was robbed, couldn't help but say. Other cadres also think this point of view is very strange, compared with life, money is really nothing.

Yang calmly lit a cigarette, and after a pause, he slapped the table and said, "That's right, that's it." ”

"Director Yang, what do you mean by this?" The deputy director asked in surprise.

Yang calmly replied: "The Mongols may let Venice go, but they won't let go of Venice money." Venice had to pay taxes to Mongolia. Those upper echelons of the Republic of Venice wanted to keep their money. They feel that if they don't have money, they can die. ”

The participants listened to Yang calmly's description of the Venetian mentality, but no one spoke. The people on the side of the Great Song may be able to understand what Yang Congrong said, but they can't understand the mentality of the Venetians. Mongolia seems to be massacring everyone, and the Great Song Dynasty is also used to seeing Mongolia's ways. Therefore, after the Great Song Dynasty gained the advantage, he did not hesitate to slash and kill the Mongols, and beheaded 100,000 people at every turn in the north for several years. Unlike before, after the rise of the Zhao official family, no one in the Great Song Dynasty dared to mention the word 'surrender'.

Da Song did not surrender because he knew that it was useless to surrender and he would fight to the end. The Venetians refused to surrender because they felt that it didn't matter if they surrendered, but they couldn't lose their money.

In the silence, the clerk couldn't help but speak again, "We might as well ask the Venetians, we charge them fifty percent of the tax, and see if they agree." ”

"Hah!" Yang Congrong finally laughed out loud.

Two hours later, looking at the figures of the Venetian envoys leaving angrily, Yang calmly leaned back in his chair with satisfaction. Since the Venetians feel that money is supreme, let them die with their money. Not to mention that Yang Congrong had no intention of breaking the four-party agreement and eating Venice from the beginning. Even if there were, understanding the temperament of the Venetians, Yang Congrong did not have such an impulse.

"Record, we send a telegram to Hangzhou." Yang said calmly.

On the 6th day of May 333 in the Song calendar, Zhao Jiaren saw the telegram and asked the foreign minister, "What does the Ministry of Foreign Affairs think?" ”

"Official, how should the territory of the Mediterranean be counted?" Foreign Minister Lu Baifeng asked.

"I'm not a big fan of those islands." Zhao Jiaren said with a smile. After saying that, Zhao Jiaren was worried that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would order the men of the East European Department to slaughter the locals, so he said: "Such land can probably be regarded as a province." ”

"Every big island can be counted as a county." Lu Baifeng replied decisively. He consulted with the people in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a long time, and some people in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were deluded and thought that a large island could be counted as a county. This argument, which was clearly capable of triggering controversy, was decisively suppressed by Lu Baifeng.

"Tell Yang Congrong that he won't consider the establishment of a province until he completes the plan." Zhao Jiaren gave Lu Baifeng an answer. Seeing Lu Baifeng leave with wind at his feet, Zhao Jiaren felt that Lu Baifeng should also be happy. Back then, Chen Tang 'Those who commit strong men will be punished even if they are far away', but after killing Shan Yu. Lu Baifeng: They do have a lot of credit. Thinking of Chen Tang, Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but sigh.

Putting down Chen Tang's association, Zhao Jiaren picked up the report from the north. The progress of the Song army in the north was far beyond imagination, and on a long front of tens of thousands of miles from the northeast to the northwest, the 200,000 Song army harvested hundreds of thousands of Hulu's heads every year. Looking at the average alone, this percentage is a bit low. In this era when there is no possibility of killing good and taking risks, maybe it is time to urge a little.

But thinking about it, Zhao Jiaren still didn't force the army to turn in his head in the end. Whatever the specific reason, he just couldn't give such an order.

After reading the military issue, Zhao Jiaren picked up the newly submitted report on the Qinhuai River water conservancy project. The project took nine years to complete, which made Zhao Jiaren lose his sense of excitement. But it should have been used for so long, and there is no need to make any comments on it. The report was placed on the table, and Zhao Jiaren did not go to look through it, but lightly tapped the cover with his fingers.

In the past two years, the Great Song Dynasty has finally seen the wave of immigration that Zhao Jiaren dreamed of. Thirty years ago, Zhao Jiaren once led the people of Fujian, who were very poor and had many people and little land, to his newly opened land. At that time, Zhao Jiaren thought that immigration was a very easy thing. In addition to the wave of Fujian immigrants, Zhao Jiaren has been looking forward to the wave of immigrants from the Great Song Dynasty to the north for the past 30 years, until the Great Song Dynasty began to declare war on the old system and achieved a phased victory.

The year before and last year, a total of 3 million people returned to their 'Central Plains hometown' or 'Hebei hometown'. After the arrival of three million new people, the production of agriculture and animal husbandry in the Huanghuai Plain and the Hebei Plain increased significantly. Even the saline-alkali land on the Huanghuai and Hebei plains, where no grass grows, is also planted with poplar trees because of manpower. Poplar trees planted earlier also had the manpower to collect chrysin. After saving the distance of thousands of miles from the northwest to the Central Plains, the price of chrysine is also much lower.

Sighing, Zhao Jiaren didn't look at the report, and put the report back in place. He decided to wait for his son Zhao Qian to come back from Jiangning.

Zhao Qian had already arrived in Jiangning at this time. After leaving Jiangning for more than two years, Zhao Qian has also changed a little. First of all, he is no longer a single dog with no worries, and his wife is pregnant with her third child. Zhao Qian now feels that he can finally understand what is good about his wife, running a family is a very serious matter, and it is not easy to take care of those little things and let them grow up healthy and normal. In this matter, Zhao Qian gave his wife a full score.

The last time he went to Jiangning, Zhao Qian disembarked at the pier by the Yangtze River. This time, the passenger boat he was on went upriver and soon reached the bottom of a 200-meter-long barrage. The 200-meter-long barrage looks extremely imposing, and at this time it is the rainy season, and the river overflows the barrage, pouring down two or three meters like a waterfall, and even makes a certain roaring sound, which is very imposing.

The cruise ship went straight to the lock next to the barrage. The locks are large rectangular pools with steel locks at both ends at the front and rear. The boat approached from the downstream direction and came to a standstill. The huge steel locks that had been lifted in the rear slowly descended to seal the exit. The inlet at the front opens, and a large amount of water pours into the closed locks, raising the water level to the same height as the water level upstream. After removing the water pressure caused by the different heights of the river, the upstream steel gate is slowly raised under the traction of the steel cable.

Everyone on board was looking at this seemingly huge, yet very delicate operation. Even Zhao Qian, one of the builders of the year, watched intently. Although the principle used is very simple, the locks that can allow more than 1,000 tons of ships to pass through are really impressive.

After passing through this lock, the surface height of the water on which the ship travels has risen sharply by three meters. Then the boat continued to swim against the current and docked at the pier in Jiangning City. When you get off the dock and walk out of the platform, you will find a wide road. Immediately, someone came to solicit customers, and Zhao Qian and the others immediately saw the sign that came to greet them. Everyone got into the carriage and drove in Jiangning City.

The city is much more prosperous than it was three years ago. In addition to the convenience of shipping, there is also a railway in the city. Zhao Qian: They saw the rail cars coming along the railway at an intersection, and then Zhao Qian was also dumbfounded. He couldn't help but ask the people who came to receive him in astonishment, "Is that the horse?" ”

"Yes. Big, right? The receptionist replied with a smile.

In general, huge animals are very noticeable. The horse is undoubtedly the most eye-catching. In terms of classification, horses are divided into hot-blooded horses and cold-blooded horses, as well as so-called warm-blooded horses. Cold-blooded horses are quiet and composed, relatively large in size, and less athletic. It is generally used for labor, and is rarely used for riding. A horse is one of the so-called cold-blooded horses.

Zhao Qian and the others simply got down from the carriage and looked at the horses up close, and the people who saw this animal for the first time had to sigh.

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