"Move the capital!" Zhao Gou was stunned!

He shook his head and said: "Even if I can't return to Bianjing, I don't plan to move the capital, it will be too much of a waste of people's power and money, and the ministers of the court and the central government will not approve of it!" ”

Xiao Ming laughed and said, "In this way, it seems that you are still a wise king!" However, I have already solved the problem of people's power and wealth that you are worried about, and hundreds of thousands of Jin soldiers and Goryeo laborers are enough to complete this work, and as for the money problem, there is no need to worry, the silver we obtained from Jinguo Goryeo and Fusang is enough to build two capitals for you! ”

Zhao Gou was shocked: "Is there really so much money?" ”

Xiao Ming said: "Of course, so if we want to increase our national strength, we must plunder outward, and we are ready to take action against the Nanyang region ...... next!" ”

Zhao Gou interrupted him and said, "The way of plundering is too contrary to the teachings of the saints, how can I do such a thing in the state of etiquette and education in the Great Song Dynasty!" Never! ”

Xiao Ming sneered: "The Great Song Dynasty is a state of etiquette and education, but it was attacked by someone in the capital and slaughtered the people and kidnapped the emperor!" Why don't your Majesty's teachings of the saints change everything? ”

Zhao Gou could only shut up! When the foreigners plundered the people of the Central Plains, how could they follow the teachings of the saints! He understood this truth, but he always felt that something was wrong, so he only heard Xiao Ming say: "Why do all the people in my country of China only rely on the etiquette of saints to live?" And those small countries are able to plunder and constantly encroach on my homeland in the Central Plains? Is it really that comfortable to be hunted down? Instead of making others strong, we should be strong ourselves! ”

Zhao Gou felt that he couldn't say anything about Xiao Ming, but he was really interested in what Xiao Ming said that he could build two capitals just by plundering, so he asked, "Where does Aiqing think it's better to build the capital?" ”

"Jinling Health! This is the land of the tiger standing on the dragon plate, the king is full of energy, and the construction of the capital here can ensure the foundation of my Great Song Dynasty for thousands of years! ”

Zhao Gou asked: "Why can't you wait to return to Bianjing after recovering the Central Plains?" ”

"It's easy!" Xiao Ming replied, "Because it's the age of the ocean!" It's not the Continental era anymore! ”

"What is the Ocean Age?"

"It is the time to ask for rich food from the sea, Your Majesty! I can tell you that now the Great Song Dynasty is very different from the original, thousands of ships have belonged to small ships, and tens of thousands of large ships abound, and we have no less than ten steam iron warships, hundreds of fast merchant ships with three masts and hundreds of sails, and we have sailed as far west as we have sailed to the Owl Clothes and Food, and the wealth we earn through commerce and trade can even build several Hangzhou cities! ”

Zhao Gou watched in surprise as Xiao Ming was foaming at the mouth, Xiao Ming told him where ivory rhino horn and other things were specialty, where to get coral orbs and diamonds, and told him how promising the overseas spice market was, and how popular the iron and silk porcelain of the Great Song Dynasty were, and even told him that gold and precious stones were abundant there, silver and rare stones were abundant there.

"Is there any deficiency in my Chinese products?" Zhao Gou almost didn't believe his ears, he didn't believe what Xiao Ming said, because Xiao Ming's experience has always been something he admired, he just didn't know that except for China, the world was so colorful!

Xiao Ming told him that not the whole world must be the king's land, and the shore of the land must be the king's minister, there are still many kingdoms in this world, and those who used to think that they were the center of the world were to provoke Zhao Gou's competitiveness, but they successfully provoked Zhao Gou's conquest as the emperor**!

"One day, I will make those monestic lords submit to my feet!" Zhao Gou clenched his fists and said, "Xiao Qing! The widow will now make you a messenger of consolation from all over the world! If you hunt the sea in all directions, you must let all the four seas be Song Chen! ”

Xiao Ming shook his head and said: "I am not an official, being an official is not free, and I am also subject to suspicion, I do things for the official family and do not seek wealth and glory, nor do I seek high-ranking officials!" As long as Your Majesty believes in me Xiao Ming and gives me convenience, then I am willing to be a dog and horse for the rest of my life, and Your Majesty will conquer the four seas! ”

This said Gaozong Zhao Gou is ashamed and moved, the historical Song Gaozong Zhao Gou since crossing the river, not only suspicious temperament but also quite weak, is a crying master at every turn, this is a bit similar to his brother, he only now understands that Xiao Ming really doesn't care about the official position, which also makes him have an obvious contrast between those scholars who regard the official position as everything and people like Xiao Ming, that is, who is the one who does things!

Gaozong Zhao Gou's inner emotional transformation, the experience of the way of the royal man is naturally not something Xiao Ming can understand, Zhao Gou understands that it is necessary to use people's weaknesses to make people do things for him, but Xiao Ming's weaknesses he can't grasp, and people acted earlier, and even their families withdrew, Xiang also thought of this layer.

So it seems that Xiao Ming's weakness is more emotional, and Zhao Gou himself has also shared hardships with Xiao Ming, the foundation of this relationship is still there, he believes that as long as it is not too much, Xiao Ming will still be sincere to himself, then he must have moved the capital out of good intentions, there is no doubt about it.

Xiao Ming asked him: "Your Majesty, since the founding of the first emperor, it is difficult to establish many dynasties in the Great Song Dynasty at present, but which dynasty can make people nostalgic, and besides, which dynasty has left their palace?" ”

Zhao Gou was a little dazed again, Xiao Ming's thinking turned too fast, he couldn't keep up, so he replied: "All of them were destroyed in the war, I heard that Emperor Qin's Afang Palace covers an area of thousands of tons, and it is magnificent, but it was burned by the overlord Xiang Yu!" ”

"Chinese build houses with a lot of wood, where is there thousands of years of immortal wood? What kind of building do you say will be immortal? Is it made of brick or wood, or is it made of fine stone? ”

"Of course, the stone is immortal, standing for thousands of years and remaining!"

Xiao Ming smiled: "Do the officials know that Jinling City is also called Stone City?" ”

…… The matter of moving the capital was decided by Gaozong, and Keri arranged for a large number of clan personnel and craftsmen to go to Jinling City, and Jinling Health was named Kangzhou and Kangjing at the same time, because this Kang character is the same as the character of Zhao Gou when he was King Kang, which also seems to indicate some kind of connection.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu State has set up the capital of Jinling City, after more than a thousand years of wind and rain, after nearly nine dynasties built the capital here, now because of the arrival of Xiao Ming once again rejuvenated, a large number of laborers who landed from the port of Hangzhou landed on the train and continued to pour into Connecticut! Most of these laborers were prisoners of war from the Jin Kingdom.

Logically speaking, it took a lot of craftsmen to build a palace, and the prisoners of war could only sell coolies, but they didn't know that because of the decision to use stone as the main building material, the construction of the palace required a lot of coolies, and the skilled craftsmen of the Goryeo Kingdom also had to show their strength on this construction site.

Xiao Ming continued to send laborers to Hangzhou and other places, so the practice of using a large number of prisoners of war was indeed a very cost-saving practice, in addition to the construction of the capital in Kangjing, Xiao Ming's railway laying, the excavation of mountains, and the transportation of coal and iron tools required a lot of manpower, and prisoners of war were the best cheap labor.

The management of prisoners of war has never been an easy task, and there is no very good way, but some special methods used by Xiao Ming will naturally be different among the prisoners of war captured over the years, such as the Taiping City in Xuzhou Iron Demand, where there are some people from the Western Regions, Khitans and a large number of Jurchens! This inevitably brings about a relative difference.

Xiao Ming's method is not to make the personnel crowded, each team of prisoners of war has two groups of prisoners of war of different nationalities, the two groups of people find out the leader respectively, but change them at any time, let them supervise each other, which group of people will be reported by the other group of any changes, then that group of people will all be punished, and the group that reports will be rewarded! The punishment is starvation, and the reward is wine and meat!

Human beings will spontaneously engage in infighting among different groups of people, and Xiao Ming's purpose is to let them fight infighting, and during the day with strong physical labor, these people will go to bed early at night! Although they all regard the other party's group of people as mortal enemies, no one wants to be starved, but watch each other drink wine and eat meat.

In this case, even if some people have any premeditated plans and want to riot and escape, they will be immediately reported by the other party, and over time, these people have gradually been institutionalized, and the tiger guards and sergeants who are responsible for taking care of them are becoming more and more relaxed! Even the prisoner camp did not lock the door at night.

There are also some laborers who have been working in the prisoner of war camp for several years, who have been pardoned because of their good behavior, who are willing to leave without hindrance, who are willing to stay and continue to work and pay their wages, and these people will take the initiative to cooperate with the management of the entire prisoner of war camp, thus freeing up a large number of guards.

This set of settings has been like this since the earliest Xiao Ming excavated iron and stone in Western Xia, and the prisoner of war camps and craftsman camps on the construction sites in Kangjing and Jingdong in Jiangnan have also taken such measures, and there are also a group of Japanese prisoners on Liangzhejiang Road and the Jurchen and Goryeo prisoners of war who were first captured by Xiao Ming, and they have always been managed in this way, and there has never been any mistakes.

Throughout the southeast of China and the gradual expansion to Jiangnan and other places, as well as along the Yangtze River to Jingxiang and other places, all of them are a piece of construction sites, Shandong, Anhui and other places, Jiangxi and Fujian and other places of stone, Liaodong wood were transported to Kangjing by a large number of prisoners of war laborers through their own sweat, plus a large number of steam ships, the demand for cattle and horses and other large livestock gradually decreased, in addition to the army still needs military horses, horses gradually flowed into the city in large quantities, becoming the main means of transportation.

In the twelfth century, there were things in China that were out of step with this era, steamers and steamers rumbling on the fields, roads were leveled everywhere, four-wheeled carriages were running on them, and among the various river systems, all kinds of steam-powered boats were smoking, in the form of paddle wheels and snail pulp!

Chinese at this time, there are more and more means of travel to choose from, and this trend is gradually spreading to Guangnan East Road and Hexi Road, and at the same time driving the economic and trade development and life changes in South China, but this is also a kind of regional development imbalance, in the vast western and northern areas of the Chinese people are still living in order, and even facing the threat of invasion of the Jurchen people.

Today's railway laying has blossomed in various places, the southeast five roads are covered by the railway line, because the water network here is numerous across the lakes and rivers, in order to pave the road, the bridge has to be built, which also drives the development of the bridge-building industry in various places, the span of the bridge is getting longer and longer, and even once used steel materials, and the various professional craftsmen born from this are countless.

In many places with poor terrain, not only railways had to be built, but even roads had to be laid at the same time, and at that time this was called an official road, and the pipelines and railways ran in parallel, because they had to go through caves and cross rivers, so they generally went hand in hand, and when digging caves on various rocks, it was much less labor-saving than before, and that was because explosives could be bought.

The control of explosives is still very strict, and when Xiao Ming and Ding Jianpeng discussed whether to sell explosives into the market, there was also some debate, but considering that the age limit of technical control has basically expired, as long as the manufacturing secrets are strictly controlled, the supply of explosives in the upper limit of the market is also a source of profit.

Not only is it an open cave, but Xiao Ming has actually applied explosives to it a long time ago, so although there are explosives to sell among the people, they are in short supply! At the same time, the latest explosives were being developed in Ding Jianpeng's chemical laboratory, and Xiao Ming needed to set up a chemical factory in Shandong.

Xiao Ming was still appointed by Gaozong as the ambassador of the four seas! Mainly responsible for the maritime affairs of the Great Song Dynasty, Xiao Ming thinks it's okay, now he can take advantage of the situation to march south, his target is Guangzhou City, but at this time, there is news that Li Minbo of Goryeo has been killed, and Goryeo is in chaos!