Xiao Ming did not approve Wu Song's request, but it was really not easy to think that Wu Song had been alone with hundreds of people overseas for so long, so he allowed Wu Song to come to Busan by ship, he wanted to meet him, and wanted to ask about the changes in the situation in Japan during this time.

Wu Song soon took a boat through the Tsushima Strait to Busan, Xiao Ming was in full swing in Busan to recruit laborers to get a job, saw Wu Song was very happy, beckoned him to go home, Wu Song and a group of Huwei brothers were also very happy, so he followed Xiao Ming back happily.

Xiao Ming received a lot of seafood in Busan Port, ready to entertain Wu Song and the group of tiger guards, but found that everyone's faces were very ugly, and when they saw the seafood, their faces were bitter, Wu Song arched his hand to Xiao Ming and said: "Wu Song and his brothers want to ask the lord for wine and drink, and they don't want to eat this kind of seafood anymore, and the brothers have been having diarrhea for a long time!" ”

Xiao Ming was stunned for a moment, but then understood, and couldn't help laughing, so he ordered to serve the wine and bring a few jars of sorghum roast just sent from the Weihai base.

But they secretly looked at Xiao Ming, and didn't dare to drink immediately, Xiao Ming scolded with a smile: "What are you waiting for, do you want me to toast one by one?" Everyone smirked at this time, and they didn't open their mouths politely to drink it, and some people didn't have time to use the bowl, scooping the jar and pouring it into their mouths, and the juice was dripping on their chests!

Xiao Ming said: "Actually, I should really give you a bowl of wine, everyone is thousands of miles away from home and stationed alone in a foreign land, it is really hard, plus the diet is different, this is too hard, I am very sad, but because of your existence, I can have a large base outside the Yellow Sea, I Xiao Ming thank you!" ”

Wu Song immediately knelt down and said: "Everyone doing this for the lord is nothing, the lord is serious, we are just greedy, and some brothers are a little homesick, these are not problems, we can bear it!" ”

Xiao Ming helped him up and said: "I know your hard work, but I will let you change your guard immediately, now that Goryeo is under my control, and then scoop down the base of Fusang Island Country, I can basically complete the planning of our sphere of influence!" ”

Everyone was naturally very happy to hear that they could change their defenses, and it seemed that Xiao Ming also planned to continue to increase his military presence on Kyushu Island, so it was not impossible to annex the entire Kyushu Island, so they drank and congratulated, and several people were all drunk this night, and they fell in the living room.

Xiao Ming sent people to help them into the horizontal position, and his mind was still planning how to annex Japan, if he wanted to annex the whole of Japan, he must first solve the whole of Goryeo Korea, and the strategy against Japan was not just a simple cultural invasion, he had to have a bigger plan.

In order to establish a sphere of influence around the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea, it is necessary to solve the problem of the Japanese archipelago east of the Yellow Sea, and some things must be done in advance, and the problem of Goryeo basically only needs Xiao Ming's guidance to immediately break out into chaos, and it is easy to control Goryeo at that time.

However, Xiao Ming felt that it was necessary to adopt the strategy of cannibalism, and if it was used violently at once, it was estimated that it would be counterproductive, and before encroaching on Japan, it was necessary to carry out cultural aggression on a larger scale, and in this regard, Japan's Honshu Island had already achieved good results due to the large-scale import of Chinese books.

Due to the introduction of a large number of Confucian classics and Buddhist books, the basic backward papermaking and printing technology in Japan also developed rapidly, and the silver exchanged from Japan continued to flow to China.

In the list of trade with Japan, Nippon Masashi also increased his trade efforts for various other products other than silver in Japan, such as copper, iron, coal, and other local resources.

A large number of Chinese textiles and iron products are also flowing into Japan, in addition to a large number of glass and porcelain, which are relatively low-cost goods, but in Japan they have become a rare luxury, only available to the royal nobility and monks of large temples, which has accelerated the loss of wealth.

Basically, Nisshotaka adopted a commodity dumping strategy against Japan, in addition to the land and fishery resources around the island nation, some of Japan's non-renewable resources are within the target of trade plunder, and they even imported large quantities of timber from Korea and Japan for the burgeoning paper industry in the southeast.

The Great Song Dynasty's control over Kyushu Island is gradually increasing, to put it bluntly, Xiao Ming is controlling, due to the local army, basically the entire Kyushu basically has no formed armed forces, and some lords and nobles on the island also tend to have good relations with the Tiger Guard led by Wu Song, and the two sides have been in friendship.

So in Xiao Ming's persuasion of Wu Song, he tried his best to persuade him to continue to garrison Kyushu Island, Wu Song didn't have too many opinions, he just said that he had nothing to worry about being alone, but he couldn't be by Xiao Ming's side, he always felt sorry for the lord, and many of the tiger guards who followed him had families in Hangzhou, and he was also thinking about them.

Of course, Xiao Ming also considered this matter, he decided to let Ma Haishu send a regiment of wolf division soldiers to the island to pick up the tiger guards there, and this army was completely led by Wu Song, Xiao Ming said in his heart: "It is said that Japan is the descendant of Wu Dalang, now let your uncle inform you, you shouldn't have any opinions, right?" ”

This is of course Xiao Ming's own bad taste, although his life in Goryeo is leisurely, but it is not nothing to do, according to the development of the Hangzhou base, the matter of the capital of the Great Song Dynasty must be solved. And he also needed to go back to Hangzhou, this time he had to take with him not only a large amount of silver, but also thousands of craftsmen looted by the Goryeo Kingdom.

Prior to this, because there were already more than 100,000 Jin captives who were continuously sent to Ryukyu, Hangzhou, and Weihai, and many merchants from Liaodong turned south to go to Hangzhou. The merchants of Liaodong were once controlled by the sea ban of the Jin State, and they had not conducted commercial trade with the Central Plains and the southeast for a long time, but this time they formed a large-scale trade fleet and brought more Liaodong specialties at one time.

Medicinal materials are the most commodities brought by merchants in Liaodong, and the precious medicinal materials in the best northeast alpine forests are now sold in large quantities to the southeast, in addition to various leather resources, such as bear skin, deer skin, mink and other leather goods in the whole of China have been very valuable, which has also brought huge profits to the merchants of Liaodong, and also contributed to the rise of various super-large markets in the Yangtze River Delta region.

There are not only business travelers from all over the country, but also a lot of overseas merchants, who were supposed to go ashore in Guangdong and Quanzhou and other places, all of them ran to Hangzhou at this time, Xiao Ming is very worried that such a thing will happen, if Hangzhou is too prosperous, will Zhao Gou be reluctant to move the capital?

In fact, Gaozong Zhao Gou did have such an idea, Hangzhou City after several years of rapid development of the city has increased infinitely, the original city wall has been unable to enclose the main industrial land and population inhabited, and during this time, a large number of people in the Central Plains have been divided into several times to follow Zhao Gou to move to Hangzhou, which has caused more congestion in Hangzhou.

Hangzhou has gradually become flashy and extravagant, at night the whole city of Hangzhou has almost become a city that never sleeps, Guanqiao and Yongjinmen have been to the north gate of this area is crowded and lively, all kinds of merchants do not close their doors, do business all night long, and the merchants are more to attract people to attract guests.

It would have been nice if the city was lit up, but now the range of these lights extends to the sky, and hundreds of hot air balloons purchased and leased from Richanglong are all floating in the air, and they also hang their lights on them, and in addition to bunting advertisements, they also hire jugglers to perform on hanging ropes! This has almost become a scene in Hangzhou.

Not only ordinary people, but even the officials and nobles and even the noblewomen and concubines in the palace are also very much attracted to this kind of scenery, and even Gaozong himself has secretly come out at night to enjoy the street scenery and taste the food, Xiao Ming couldn't help but be a little worried when he saw Xue Bingchang write this in the secret letter to him.

Xiao Ming returned to Hangzhou to prepare to meet Gaozong Zhao Gou, but now Xiao Ming has no official position and cannot go to the court for political affairs, but he is a nobleman with the status of a marquis, and he can be invited by the emperor to meet in the palace, so Xiao Ming had to wait for Gaozong's summons and invitation, but half a month has passed.

Xiao Ming felt that this was intentional by Gaozong Zhao, he wanted to express his snubbing of Xiao Ming, and also wanted Xiao Ming to understand who the real master of the current Great Song Dynasty was, this was nothing more than his kind of imperial power thinking, but Xiao Ming scooped Gaozong's pigtails He didn't take it into account, so Xiao Ming got angry!

"It's called giving you face, you don't have a face!" Xiao Ming thought that now more than half of the economic lifeline of the entire Great Song Dynasty is in Xiao Ming's hands, if Mr. Gao wants to deal with Richanglong, Taiping Iron Works, Yinzhuang and Hangzhou Shipyard, it is tantamount to pushing the Great Song Dynasty into a situation of no return, and he forgives Gaozong for not having the courage to do so! So he sent someone to send a letter to Gaozong.

I just said briefly in my heart, I found the traces of Qinzong in Liaodong, and wanted to report it to Emperor Gaozong, sure enough, Gaozong immediately summoned Xiao Ming, Xiao Ming met Gaozong Zhao Gou, the two were relatively speechless, and felt so strange, after Gaozong retreated, he asked Xiao Ming.

"Does Xiao Ming really have the whereabouts of the imperial brother?"

Xiao Ming didn't answer him, but looked at Gaozong coldly, Gaozong was forced by Xiao Ming's gaze, and couldn't help but sweat down his head, Xiao Ming said: "I have recovered all Liaodong, you have no worries, when to recover the Central Plains will depend on you, but there is one thing, now the current good situation of my Great Song Dynasty is not the work of Your Majesty alone, you have to be a good emperor, then I guarantee that His Majesty Qinzong will not step into the Central Plains again in this life!" I still say the same thing, with me here, I can keep your throne stable! ”

Gaozong thought about it carefully, and it was true, he nodded slowly, and opened his mouth to say, "Is the county lord good?" He seemed to know that the Lord of Fumao had already run away with Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming asked, "Do you really care about the county lord?" ”

Zhao Gou just scooped the Lord of Fumao as a tool, he was clear to everyone in his heart, and he was dumbfounded by Xiao Ming again, he only now knew that everything about himself was in the hands of others, but Xiao Ming did not let him be a puppet, but still let him be a beautiful Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, according to reason, he should have thanked Xiao Ming.

But the high imperial power distorts this idea, is the emperor really so good? Gojong

Zhao Gou was very helpless, and he said to Xiao Ming: "Aiqing come back, you can't do it without you!" ”

Xiao Ming said: "No one in the court can do it, what I do is completely for the sake of His Majesty, such as the major event of moving the capital this time!" ”