Everyone was silent, and everyone could tell that Fanning was clearly tailoring, and those powerful people were desperately pushing the imperial court to purchase land through private individuals, not just to have an autonomous land that was not under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and could establish themselves as kings.

"What is the attitude of the Son of Heaven?" Han Qi asked.

"The Son of Heaven agrees in principle that he can be self-governing, but he cannot establish a state, he is not allowed to trespass, and he has a small number of self-defense soldiers, but there is a strict limit on the number of people, and in addition, those who buy autonomous land must be protons in the court."

Fu Bi pondered for a moment and said: "Regarding the matter of the autonomous land, I suggest that the Zhizheng Hall discuss it in detail with the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven and make a decision, the matter is very important, and it should not be hasty. ”

Everyone unanimously agreed with Fu Bi's suggestion.

At this time, Wen Yanbo smiled and said: "Today, please come over with the envoy, I mainly want to talk about the affairs of Baozhou, we all agree on the name of this state, but how to operate it, I also want to hear the opinions of the envoy." ”

Although the development of overseas prefectures and counties is in charge of the overseas economic strategy, once the state capital is fully completed, it will be handed over to the imperial court, such as Kunzhou and Tanzhou, which are handed over to the Zhizheng Hall, and the development of overseas also requires the cooperation of the imperial court, mainly immigrants need to be collected by the imperial court.

Of course, Fan Ning knew what these guys were talking about with him, and he couldn't afford to be early, so he probably wanted to ask Baozhou if there was any gold and silver placers.

Fanning walked into the lobby and sat down, and said to the ministers: "The natural conditions of Baozhou are similar to those of Luzon, Luzon Island is mainly dipterocarp trees and cotton trees, while Baozhou is dominated by rubber trees, everyone has seen the carriage I dedicated to the Son of Heaven, the wheels are made of rubber, the agricultural products are mainly rice, and it is also a land rich in rice, in addition, Baozhou's minerals are mainly tin ore and iron ore, and gold and silver do not seem to be available, but Baozhou is the best transit place for trade with the West, and the location of Xingang is ten times superior. I decided to build the port of New Springs there. ”

"Build a trade port in Baozhou, what about the new port?" Fu Bi asked.

"Let Xingang be turned into a local government, the big island where the Bo Ni country is located is thousands of miles away, but the territory occupied by the Bo Ni country is a very small piece, at most only one percent of the big island, we can gradually open up this big island to a state capital of the Great Song Dynasty."

"Let's take it one step at a time! How many immigrants do you need in Baoju? Han Qi asked again.

"As in Luzon, the first phase requires 5,000 households, and another 30,000 Japanese laborers."

Han Qi didn't talk about immigrants at this time like the day before yesterday, in the past few years, the people of the Great Song Dynasty have suddenly opened their minds, and they no longer reject immigrants overseas, and now it is not difficult to find immigrants, as long as the government posts a notice, it is easy to raise 5,000 households.

Fanning's conditions were fully acceptable to the Zhizheng Hall.

In fact, Han Qi and other ministers are concerned that overseas expansion is getting bigger and bigger, and it is obviously a bit unrealistic to rely on an overseas economic strategy to manage it, they took over Kunzhou and did it just as well, which gave the imperial court great confidence.

Now their eyes are aimed at the Ryukyu Province and the Luzon Province, these two provinces are becoming more and more important, especially the Luzon Province, gold, pig iron, frosting, cotton, spices, rice, and timber are simply a cornucopia, and the prefect wants to expand its business and relocate more people, but the premise is to take the Luzon Province from the hands of the Overseas Economic Strategy Office.

Han Qi gave several other envoys a look, and then slowly smiled at Fan Ning: "In addition to arranging the development of Baozhou, I also want to talk to the envoy today about the situation in Luzon. ”

..........

Fanning and the Zhizhengtang finally reached a compromise, Fanning agreed to the Zhizhengtang to take over the Ryukyu and Luzon provinces, and his first condition was that all officials who served as prefectural officials overseas could be transferred to Beijing officials after the expiration of their term of office, which was actually a benefit of Kunzhou, which was later abolished, and Fanning asked the Zhizhengtang to restore the system again.

The second condition was to ask the prefect to cancel the evaluation of him, and his term of office was still two years, and he really had no time to take care of the Ryukyu and Luzon prefectures, and if it weren't for the fact that he was not very confident in the prefect's pioneering ability, he would even want to hand over Hoshu to the prefect.

In the next two years, he did not intend to aim at making money, but to consolidate and strengthen the control of the Great Song Dynasty over the South Seas, and initially establish a civilian way to colonize the sea.

Fanning's two conditions, the Zhizheng Tang also agreed, they officially changed the name of Xingang to Sizhou, and then built two state capitals, Baozhou and Sizhou.

In the afternoon, Han Jiang invited Fan Ning to Zhu Lou for tea.

Han Jiang poured a cup of tea for Fan Ning and said: "I have something to tell you in advance, the Zhizheng Tang and the Empress Dowager Cao have reached a consensus, and after your term of office expires, the Overseas Economic Strategy Mansion will carry out power adjustments, and the Overseas Economic Strategy Mansion will only be in charge of the army, no longer participate in politics, and will be subordinate to the Privy Council, and then set up the Overseas Propaganda and Fu Department to be in charge of overseas state capitals." ”

Fan Ning picked up the teacup and said with a faint smile: "Does the Zhizheng Hall feel that I now integrate the military and the government, and I am not under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, so I have too much power?" ”

Han Jiang shook his head, "It's not against you, but for the position of overseas economic envoy, you are a special case, in fact, you have restored your previous state, didn't Di Qing only manage the army in the past?" ”

Fan Ning also knew that the Zhizheng Tang's request was also reasonable, how could the state capital of the Great Song Dynasty break away from the jurisdiction of the Zhizheng Tang, and he was indeed just a special case of the special era, and it was not surprising that the Zhizheng Tang had the idea of restoring the original state.

"I don't have a problem, I just want to have my men in place."

Han Jiang said with a smile: "Last time you recommended the staff, the officials have already approved it, Gongsun Xuance and Zhang Bo awarded the eighth grade, and Chen Yu awarded the eighth grade, all of them are the magistrates, and the magistrate's hall is still interesting enough for you!" ”

Fan Ning was overjoyed, and the three of them were directly appointed as Beijing officials, starting from the magistrate, so that they would not have to take a big detour.

Han Jiang smiled again: "This is all because of your achievements in catching money over the years, everyone understands it in their hearts!" ”

"What about myself, what's in it for me?" Fanning asked, raising an eyebrow.

Han Jiang smiled and said, "Xiao Fan Xianggong has called out, do you still need to ask?" ”

Fan Ning's qualifications are actually gradually enough, his biggest weakness before is the lack of qualifications, but he has been an official for nearly fifteen years, and various local official positions have also been done, like Feng Jing, who joined the ranks with him, has been promoted to the fourth grade, Fan Ning is young because he is a boy jinshi, and he has made great contributions to the society, so he is not many people have doubts about the governor's affairs.

At this time, Fan Ning remembered something again and asked, "How about the Liao Kingdom and Western Xia in the past two years?" ”

"Toss!"

Han Jiang sneered and said: "At the beginning of the year, the Western Xia asked to raise the annual coin to a level of Liao, the Great Song Dynasty refused, and the Western Xia provoked in the frontier, the two sides fought a few battles, each other won and lost, three months of money, and the Western Xia sent someone to send a letter of state, which actually said, 'The Emperor of the Western Xia sent to the Emperor of the Song Dynasty', which is equivalent to tearing up the previous book of submission and no longer submitting to the Great Song Dynasty, and the imperial court once again appointed Di Qing as the Shaanxi Road Envoy and the prefect of Yan'an, preparing for war along the border in Yan'an. ”

"What about Liao?" Fanning asked again.

"Liao has no provocation on the frontier, but has been strongly urging us to give up Kunzhou, Liao believes that we pass through Kunzhou, threatening the security of their rear, the two sides have been negotiating for a year, we only promise to give up Whale State, but Kunzhou will never give up, at most agree to reduce the Kunzhou garrison."

Speaking of this, Han Jiang smiled slyly, "Thanks to you taking the Japanese Dewa Country, although we have reduced the garrison in Kunzhou, the army can be transferred to Akita Castle to station. ”

"The Liao State should use negotiations as a cover to secretly prepare for war, and the Great Song Dynasty should be vigilant."

Han Jiang nodded, "Actually, we are also preparing for war, the gold transported from Nanyang, we specially kept five million taels as military expenses for preparing for war, increasing armaments, building city walls and passes, developing new types of firearms, improving the treatment of the army, strengthening army training, in addition, a total of 200,000 war horses have been sent from Kunzhou, and 100,000 cavalry have been trained, if a war breaks out, with the national strength of the Song Dynasty, it is not afraid." ”

Fan Ning nodded, "That's right, whether it is to deal with Western Xia or Liao, the best way is to fight a battle of national strength, and use national strength to consume and deal with it, as long as you hold on for two or three years, the other party will not be able to hold on." ”

"When are you going to go back?" Han Jiang asked again.

"A few more days! After some trivial matters, I will go back to Quanzhou. ”