There is no impermeable wall in the world, and the news that Fanning was summoned by the Son of Heaven and gave him a gold medal for exemption soon spread secretly, which shocked many powerful people and court officials, everyone knew that Fanning was a rare prodigy, not a scholarly family, but he could win the first place in the boy department in one fell swoop.

But there are thousands of prodigies, and why Fanning is the only one favored by the Son of Heaven has made many people puzzled.

However, some people have guessed some clues, I am afraid it has something to do with Fan Ning's correct answer in the imperial examination interview, for example, the Son of Heaven is very interested in Fan Ning's suggestion to run Liuqiu Island, and has established Penghu County, and the next step is to relocate poor refugees to settle on Liuqiu Island.

Another example is that Fanning mentioned cotton when he answered correctly, which made the Son of Heaven deeply interested, and he actually sent officials to Gaochangguo to learn about cotton planting, and some officials with brains guessed that it must be the officials who were interested in Fanning's whimsical ideas again.

At night, Fan Ning wrote hard at the residence of the old Caomen, and wrote down nine strategies for overseas business for Zhao Zhen, the son of heaven, including the first, middle and second parts.

He is now writing the first part, mainly talking about the establishment of overseas horse breeding bases on Maoren Island and Sakhalin Island, with Tamna Island, which was later known as Jeju Island, as a transit point, so that the war horses were relieved of the toil of long sea journeys.

Maojin Island, later known as Hokkaido, was mainly covered by forests and grasslands, inhabited by a small number of Ainu people, and was not yet part of the territory of Japan, where the climate was mild, the winters were cold, the pastures were abundant, and the pastures were extensive, making it ideal for raising war horses.

Moreover, the shipbuilding industry of the Liao State was extremely low, and it was impossible to cross the sea to fight, and the Japanese imperial family was full of contradictions with the Seki family, and the imperial family fought for power and profit for hundreds of years, and there was no time to take care of the outside land at all, until the Warring States period in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the Daimyo family of Honshu began to cross the sea to the north.

Finally, it was not until the Meiji Restoration that Japan began to immigrate to Hokkaido in large numbers and officially run Hokkaido.

The current Maoren Island is basically still a blank territory, and the Song Dynasty occupied it as a horse breeding base without any problems at all.

Of course, the first step is to find out the situation, send a fleet to Silla and Japan in the name of trade, explore the condition of Tamna Island and Maoren Island, and then familiarize yourself with the marine hydrology and work out a suitable route, which will take at least two to three years.

However, Fanning still hopes that the imperial court can take Tamna Island before next autumn and run Tamna Island first, laying the foundation for the next step in entering Hairy Island.

On Fanning's left side is a sketch of the Shandong Peninsula, the Liaodong Peninsula, the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, Tsushima Island, the Japanese archipelago, Hokkaido, and Sakhalin Island.

Fanning also mapped out a route from the Yangtze River in Taicang to Tamna Island, then to Tsushima Island, and then along the north coast of Japan to Hokkaido, where there were many places for supplies, such as Oki Island, Sado Island, etc., where safe havens and supply places could be established.

In fact, Fanning considered more about using the waterway to attack the Liao State, for example, when the Song army marched north, a naval army captured the Liaoxi Corridor and cut off the connection between Liaodong and Youzhou.

But Fan Ning also knew that Zhao Zhen, the son of heaven in front of him, did not have the courage to launch a war against Liao, and he was more interested in the horse breeding base, and he could only wait for the ambitious Song Shenzong to ascend the throne.

"That's it!"

Fanning sighed and said to himself, "Let's use twenty years to establish an overseas base first!" ”

At this time, there was a sudden knock on the door outside, "Who! Xiao Dong ran out of the room and greeted him.

The door opened, only to hear Xiao Dongcheng say in fear: "Little maid see the master!" ”

Fan Ning was surprised, put down the pen and walked to the door and asked, "Xiaodong, who is it!" ”

"It's me!"

Before Xiao Dong could speak, Zhu Yuanfeng's loud voice came from the door, "I'll come to see you, a wicked boy!" ”

Fan Ning smiled dumbly, walked into the courtyard and said with a smile: "I don't have three heads and six arms, how can I talk about the word 'demon'?" ”

Zhu Yuanfeng walked into the door and said angrily: "The old man of the Cao family celebrates his birthday, and specially asked me to send you an invitation, but it is still the seventeenth invitation, but I am the ninety-eighth invitation, why favor one over the other?" ”

Fang Fanning is a little strange, why did Old Man Cao invite himself for his birthday?

"I don't really understand, I have nothing to do with the Cao family, but I don't have a deep friendship with Cao Shi, why do you value me so much?"

Do you want to know the answer? Treat me to a cup of tea first, and then I'll tell you. ”

Fanning laughed, "Old man, please come in, Xiaodong, hurry up and sencha!" ”

"Hey! It's going to be good right away. Xiao Dong agreed.

Zhu Yuanfeng followed Fan Ning into the study, and Fan Ning invited him to sit down and tidy up the desk a little.

Zhu Yuanfeng looked at Xiao Dong who was cooking tea in the yard, and was secretly funny in his heart, Zhu Pei told herself that she wanted this maid, but she didn't expect it to be arranged here in Fanning, her granddaughter's mind! It's just lice on the monk's head, obvious.

Zhu Yuanfeng looked at the room again and said with a smile: "I heard that you bought a house by yourself?" ”

"Yes! On the side of Feiyun Bridge in the outer city, there is an eight-acre house, and it will move in a few days! Fanning told the truth.

Zhu Yuanfeng sighed, "I knew that you were going to buy a house, so I wouldn't have much to do." ”

Fanning was puzzled, "What do you mean by this, old man?" ”

"The yard you live in now was actually bought by me, and I was going to give it to you in the future, but I didn't expect you to buy a house yourself, which makes me frustrated!"

Fanning was suddenly surprised and delighted, "Then give it to me, I don't want to have another house." ”

Zhu Yuanfeng shook his head, "I decided to give it to Zhu Pei, you go and discuss it with her yourself to see if she will give it to you." ”

At this time, Xiao Dong came in with two teas, and Zhu Yuanfeng picked up the teacup and said with a smile: "You were summoned by the Son of Heaven yesterday afternoon!" ”

"How does the old man know?"

"How could I not know that this matter has spread in the upper echelons of the capital and caused a great sensation, which is why Old Man Cao sent you an invitation!"

Fan Ning scratched the back of his neck, and said in confusion: "It's not a big deal for the Son of Heaven to summon his subordinates!" I think it's just a small thing, why is it causing a sensation? ”

"The key is the gold medal, don't you really understand its importance?"

Fanning took out the gold medal and placed it on the table, "What's the importance of it?" ”

Zhu Yuanfeng sighed and said: "This kind of exempt gold medal has only been sent four times since he ascended the throne, one side was given to Zhao Zongshi, and then it was taken back, the other side was given to your cousin, and it was also taken back in the sixth year of Qingli, the third side was given to Di Qing last year, and the fourth side is your piece."

In fact, now only you and Di Qing have this kind of gold medal for exemption from calling, and you can enter the palace directly without being summoned, do you say it will not cause a sensation? ”

Fanning thought of another angle, since the Son of Heaven is willing to give himself such an important gold medal, doesn't it mean that he agrees with his horse breeding base plan from the bottom of his heart?

Thinking of this, the fire in his heart also ignited, and he smiled at Zhu Yuanfeng: "Does the old man have business dealings with Western Xia or Liao?" ”

Zhu Yuanfeng didn't understand what he meant, he nodded, "I had a deal with the merchants of the Western Xia, I transported the grain to Yan'an Mansion and handed it over to the army, so I bought cattle and sheepskins from some Western Xia merchants, and transported them back to the Central Plains, which made a lot of profits. ”

"It's smuggling!"

"Of course, it is smuggling, the Western Xia strictly prohibits the export of cattle and horses to the Great Song Dynasty, but the Western Xia is short of materials, and the Great Song Dynasty is very dependent on materials, the Song-Xia border is thousands of miles long, and it is impossible to prevent it at all, and even the border armies of the two countries are also involved in smuggling, the Song Dynasty mainly imports horses, camels, cattle, sheepskins, medicinal materials, green salt, etc., and the Western Xia imports silk, incense, porcelain, lacquerware, tea and other items, and the scale of smuggling between the two countries is very large."

Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanfeng asked strangely, "What are you asking for?" ”

Fan Ning said lightly: "Do you know why the Son of Heaven gave me this gold medal? ”

"That's why I'm coming to you today, I'm interested."

"Is the old man wondering, or is someone else wondering."

Zhu Yuanfeng was silent for a moment and said, "It's Zhao Zongshi who wants to know." ”

Fan Ning thought for a while and smiled: "I found a pasture for Da Song, which can raise millions of war horses." ”

Zhu Yuanfeng was stunned, shook his head for a while, and said: "The place where horses are raised must be in the north, I can't figure out where there is a place for horses in the Great Song Dynasty?" ”

Fanning said lightly: "This land for raising horses is overseas. ”

Zhu Yuanfeng was speechless, he sighed and said, "I also wanted to ask you if you have any business opportunities, but it turned out that it was too far away." ”

"Of course there are business opportunities, and they are not ordinarily big, if the Zhu family can receive a part, it will also be hundreds of thousands of benefits."

Zhu Yuanfeng perked up, "Tell me quickly, what business opportunities?" ”

"One is to prepare stallions, if you can get high-quality Turkic stallions from the Mobei grassland, and then present them to the imperial court in time, the Zhu family will be able to receive a big business that will benefit generations of descendants, shipping."

Fan Ning originally wanted to add that maybe the Zhu family still had the opportunity to establish an independent country overseas, but he held back, and he absolutely couldn't say this earth-shattering sentence now.

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