When Xiao Ming and Xiao Gan discussed the need to find a third-party force to deal with the Jin Kingdom together, they invariably thought of Yelu Dashi and others who were far away in Western Xia, for Xiao Ming, because of the relationship between this Ami, so he decided to go to Western Xia in person.

But this is not a matter of urgency, after the things in Weihai have been busy, Xiao Ming also wants to go back to Hangzhou to see, he went out this time first in Bianliang, Tokyo, then Weihai in Xuzhou, and finally Liaodong, it can be said that he is exhausted, especially this trip to Liaodong, which can be described as very thrilling, so he wants to go back to report safety to the ladies at home.

The work of settling a large group of people is meticulous and cumbersome, and there are many original Liaodong people, Khitan people, these people are new to the Great Song Dynasty, they are not familiar with the place and are a little nervous, and there are many doubts, these need to be appeased by Xiao Mingquan, there are many ready-made houses in Weihai City, which were originally built and not inhabited, Xiao Ming placed all these people there.

The interest in the independence of Weihai City was built in the name of Xuzhou Taiping Iron Works, when Zhang Shuye was there, he had been letting his son manage, and after Zhang Shuye was transferred to the capital, his son also followed, and although the land of Weihai City belonged to Tianping Iron Works, the administrative jurisdiction was still in Dengzhou Mansion, so it was indispensable to deal with the government.

The current Zhizhou surname of Dengzhou Mansion is Yu, an honest bureaucrat who has no achievements, everything is done according to the rules, and he has no courage to destroy all the original conventions, as long as he is in office, everything remains the same, so the common people call him Yuyuan!

Fish balls are a kind of food made by people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and this fish ball brother is a person from Taizhou on South Zhejiang Road, this man is not slippery, everything must be maintained in the original state, and he is never willing to have new ideas and achievements, so it is a good thing for Weihai City.

Xiao Gan also settled down temporarily, his family and himself were very safe, all of them were given by Xiao Ming, he was grateful, so he took on the administrative authority of the entire Weihai City, coupled with the cooperation of Huwei, which did save Xiao Ming a lot of heart, after all, in political affairs, Xiao Ming is really not very good.

Now there are more and more ships from Hangzhou to Weihai. These are all merchant ships that set off from Weihai to do business in Goryeo and Fuso, and Weihai Port can be used as a transit, and the port has become extremely busy, and the temporary management office of the port terminal has a large amount of income every day just for the docking fees of ships.

Xiao Ming waited until the matter was over and went back to Hangzhou, the two ladies in the family were very worried about him, Xiao Ming went back to reassure them, and let them look at the children, Yun'er is now crawling all over the bed, her mouth is snuggling, and she doesn't know what she is talking about, the warmth of the family makes Xiao Ming very pleased, and it also dilutes the depression in the recent period.

But he can't always stay in Hangzhou, there are still a lot of things to deal with in the Weihai base, and he can only run at both ends, everything is very normal in the Hangzhou Richanglong headquarters, but Ding Jianpeng can no longer be found in the laboratory, Xiao Ming stood in the Cihui Zhishan Sutra Hall and did not leave for a long time.

Ding Jianpeng may not be able to come back, but there must be something in the world that he keeps parting with, so that he has insisted on going back for five years, maybe the two will never see each other again after this time and space, Xiao Ming doesn't know if he chose to stay right or wrong!

The computer was also taken away by Ding Jianpeng, he thinks that things that don't belong to the current era, it's better not to stay, but there are too many things that don't belong to this era, if Xiao Ming didn't change history but changed the course of history, there were a lot of people and things that shouldn't have appeared, and these Ding Jianpeng are also participants, if they don't belong, then Xiao Ming doesn't belong to this person, but he not only belongs now, but also dominates.

Gu Shouzhen has also been very busy recently, he told Xiao Ming that Ding Jianpeng gave him a drawing, called a Krupp cannon, saying that it is something that determines the victory or defeat of the war, and he has been casting this thing now, as for what it is called, he doesn't know, but the size of this cannon is very huge, and there are six huge wheels under it for dragging, which is a typical giant cannon!

The Krupp cannon is a product of the Great War, why did Ding Jianpeng let Gu Shouzhen cast such a cannon? This made Xiao Ming puzzled, Gu Shouzhen is currently the person in charge of the arsenal, the current development of the arsenal is decent, all work is orderly, although there is no innovation, but Gu Shouzhen is a person who keeps his business, Xiao Ming is also very relieved of him.

An Daoquan's medical school is now gradually gaining popularity, and the group of surgical military doctors who have returned from the Liaodong and Goryeo fronts are currently teaching and practicing in the medical school, and these people with actual battlefield surgery experience are very popular, and An Daoquan intends to establish such a medical category as surgery.

The development of other artisan schools is general, which is related to the conservative teaching method of the Mohists, but it is also constantly providing skilled craftsmen to various factories in Hangzhou.

Xiao Ming has a more important thing to do in Hangzhou, that is, to preside over the establishment of the Hangzhou City Ship Division, which is one of the conditions he negotiated with Emperor Huizong, the Hangzhou City Ship Division was all funded by Richanglong, but the imperial court has jurisdiction, and the tax revenue of overseas trade is shared with the Great Song Dynasty.

The "City Ship Lift" of Hangzhou City Ship Division was concurrently served by Cao Zhi, the transfer envoy of Hangzhou's Liangzhejiang Road, and this Lord Cao did not even come on the day of the opening of the City Ship Division! In fact, the Hangzhou City Ship Division was established earlier, and was later abolished, because in overseas trade, the Great Song Dynasty originally had three City Ship Divisions, namely Guangzhou, Mingzhou, and Hangzhou!

In terms of foreign trade, Mingzhou and Hangzhou were mainly aimed at the tax revenue of the city trade of Korea Goryeo and Fuso, while Guangzhou was aimed at the city trade of the southern countries, but some people suggested that it was too wasteful, and the overseas trade of the Great Song Dynasty did not bring much actual income to the country, so it was better to cancel the Hangzhou City Shipping Division and only keep Mingzhou and Guangzhou.

Originally, like in Quanzhou, Fujian, the ocean can take advantage of the monsoon, spring to summer, a year old and a round trip, but to go to Guangzhou for the registration of the city, the goods can go ashore, it is a pure waste of time, some people have repeatedly asked for the establishment of the city in Quanzhou, but have not been approved, the reason is actually the problem of interest distribution, the more local income, the less the central income.

In order to centralize and control this overseas trade in the hands of the central government, as early as the first year of the Taiping Rejuvenation of the Kingdom, Song Taizong set up the Yiyi Academy, and all foreign trade products were collected by the government for monopoly. All foreign incense and medicinal treasures are not allowed to be traded privately without going through the official treasury to Guangzhou, Jiaozhi, Quanzhou, and Zhejiang.

Later, at the end of the seventh year of the Taiping Rejuvenation of the Kingdom, it was changed to a limited ban, and the foreign trade commodities were divided into two categories: forbidden goods and passable goods, except for 8 kinds of pearl shells, tooth rhinos, **, etc., the rest of the commodities were passables. However, the goods must be traded in the "official market", and the trade of most commodities is still controlled by the government. In the second year of Chunhua, it was further relaxed to the point that only half of the goods except the forbidden goods had to be traded in the official market.

After the Tiansheng period, Renzong further reduced the official market. However, the control of Chinese merchants going to sea was still tight. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the government did not have many regulations on the outlet and docking place of merchant ships, and in the second year of Duangong, it was stipulated that overseas trade must be reported to the two Zhejiang city shipping divisions, and the consequence of foreign trade control was that the scale of the market shipping trade where the city shipping department was located continued to expand, but the benefits have not been good.

In those places where there are no municipal offices, the local governments are dissatisfied, and "smuggling" is rampant. The imperial court attributed the crux of the problem to lax management. In the ninth year of Xining, Cheng Shimeng, who had been the governor of Guangzhou for six years, asked Hangzhou and Mingzhou City to abolish the Bo Division, and only set up the Guangzhou Bo Division. This plan was not adopted by the Divine Sect. However, the "Yuanfeng City Shipping Regulations" later promulgated stipulated that the Hangzhou and Mingzhou shipping divisions were in charge of trade with Japan and Goryeo, and the Guangzhou shipping divisions were in charge of trade with more than a dozen other countries and regions, with Guangzhou as the focus on monopolizing trade.

Due to the corruption of the local government's Yin Fengyang peacekeeping officials, the "Yuanfeng City Shipping Strip" actually existed in name only, and the income from overseas trade became less and less, so the imperial court no longer paid attention to this, because the Municipal Shipping Division was a dispensable institution, and the central imperial court control was limited to the level of transshipment envoys, and there was no direct jurisdiction over the upper and lower levels.

Centralization of power is a way for the Song Dynasty to strengthen its control, but its negative effect is becoming more and more obvious, the feudal dynasty is built on the agricultural society with low productivity, with the current situation of the Song Dynasty's increasingly developed industry and commerce, many landlords and big businessmen and the court The contradictions are becoming more and more acute and prominent.

Xiao Ming doesn't care about those, the establishment of the city ship division in Hangzhou is the first step for him to carry out large-scale overseas trade in the next step, and the next step is likely to be the establishment of the city ship department in Quanzhou, in fact, not only Quanzhou, but also in Shandong's Gaomi and other areas where shipbuilding and shipping trade are more developed, there have long been private private institutions, which the court does not know.

The establishment of the City Shipping Division, that is, the temporary Municipal Shipping Management Office of Hangzhou Port was changed to: the Municipal Shipping Lifting Mansion, whether the goods enter the official market set up by the government or enter the private black market, the Municipal Shipping Division does not care, which is a little different from the jurisdiction of the original Municipal Shipping Division, but the businessman likes it.

The current Hangzhou shipyard is no longer what it used to be, and the large docks built of cement can build ships of the displacement that they want, and after obtaining a large number of professional shipbuilding talents such as Hongshanren, Meng Kang decided to build steam-powered and sail-powered large merchant ships.

Xiao Ming placed a special order here to build a medium-sized warship, the shape and drawings of the ship were provided by Xiao Ming, he had to ensure that the shipyard could make money independently, which needed to be stimulated by continuous orders, in addition to the four large merchant ships ordered by Richanglong have been launched and are running the route of Fuso Japan.

Xiao Ming usually doesn't have to return to Weihai for a long time in Hangzhou, he is running at two ends, developing on two lines, but now everything is basically on track, the heads of various factories and military bases are very responsible, and the business of Taiping Iron Works and Richanglong is also very stable, basically he has nothing to do.

But what he didn't know was that the symbolic meaning behind Xiao Ming's name was proud of many people, and Xiao Ming was actually inspired to go around wherever he went, especially in Weihai base, which was a manifestation of personal prestige, although Xiao Ming himself did not know.

With this prestige, the recruitment work of the Weihai base went the most smoothly, and soon recruited more than 10,000 troops, but the selection of the Tiger Guard and the Guards was very strict, and the people who stayed were the best in all aspects, and there were a lot of people who were brushed down, but because the treatment of the Tiger Guards and the Guards was very generous, there was still an endless stream of people who came to sign up.

This time, the army was divided into two parts, both of which were formulated by Xiao Ming himself and implemented by Han Shizhong, one was the regular strength of the army, the other was the artillery strength of the army, and even the training of the navy was far away in the Hangzhou base.

Xiao Ming is not good at military training, he is just a rule-maker, but not a participant, if it is said that he is still participating in a few speeches, Xiao Ming can't take care of it now.

The situation that I thought would be calm for the time being has changed again, and the scene of the troubled times has appeared, because there is friction between the Song army in the northwest of the Western Army and the Liao army in the Western Xia, and this friction has reached an irreconcilable stage, for which the Great Song Dynasty court continues to increase troops to the northwest.

At this time, the bad news came again, and Xiao Ming was stunned on the spot.