Xiao Ming, who got the news, was immediately overjoyed, "Great! Goryeo is already in my hands! ”

It turned out that the original civil servants and samurai groups in the Li Minbo Dynasty were already on the same page, and a large number of southern nobles and large landowners were deprived of their land by Xiao Ming, and Li Minbo was greedy for the purpose of coveting this large piece of land with Park Yongqing, and it was called recovering it for national use!

Although these lands were all donated to him by Xiao Ming, and they were also reclaimed by him, but after all, this touched the core interests of the people, although in a short period of time, the land taxes and income in Goryeo increased to a certain extent, but this was completely at the expense of the interests of the southern nobles and large landowners.

In addition, the Goryeo Kingdom began to use troops against the Jurchens in the northern Pingan Province, and a large number of government troops and local armed forces were sent to the front line, but the troops in and around the national capital Kaesong were empty, and those southern nobles and large landlords who had a grudge against Yizong colluded with the Wenchen group in the court finally made trouble!

At this time, it was first caused by the collusion of Park Yongqing and Jung Byung-ho of the Wuchen clique to persecute the moon-ministers, and no less than dozens of moon-ministers were killed by them within three years, plus the land conflict. The southern Wenchen group and the northern Wuchen group became increasingly intense, and Lee Ji-sung, the lord of Taifu Temple, seized the contradiction between Jung Byung-ho and Park Yong-kyeong and successfully divided the two.

Yizong Lee Min Bo didn't know that danger had come at this time, and Jung Byung-ho successfully poisoned Park Yong-kyung at another family banquet, and then led his troops to attack the palace, and Lee Min-bak was killed by his servants when he fled in a panic! The situation became more and more serious, and in order to quell the rebellion, Li Jicheng led Wenchen to openly crusade against Zheng Binghao.

Zheng Binghao, who was furious, began to massacre Wenchen on a large scale, and the whole Kaesong was in a gloomy fog, Li Jicheng raised seventeen dead soldiers, and took advantage of Zheng Binghao's drunkenness to cut off his head, so far Wenchen's struggle seems to have won! However, Jin Zhongxin, the general who was using troops against the Jurchens in the north, got the news and led his army back to Kaesong to kill Li Jicheng, so another round of purge against Wenchen began.

At this time, the Jurchens in Pyongan Province in the north also got the news and seized the opportunity to take advantage of the situation to go south, the Goryeo army did not dare to fight at all, fled in despair, and let the Jurchens capture Pyongyang in less than three days, and at this time, the general Jin Zhongxin had just supported Li Minbo's six-year-old son Li Tao to inherit the throne and be called Myeongjong, and he himself was the general of the prison state.

The leader of the Jurchens was the nephew of Wanyan Zongfu, and it was he who led a large number of Jurchen nobles to flee from the eastern side of Changbai Mountain to Goryeo, because if they fled north, the climate there was too cold, and the Jurchen cattle and horses would be frozen to death.

He knew that it was difficult to survive in other people's land, so he always asked all the Jurchens to keep a low profile, not to clash with the locals of Goryeo, and wait to gain a foothold, but the unique survival and working methods of the Jurchen people were very different from those of the Goryeo people, who were mainly agricultural, and this kind of friction between the two ethnic groups was inevitable from time to time.

The Jurchens poured into Goryeo in large numbers, and their demands for land also became greedy, in addition to constantly grabbing the land of the Goryeo people and even expelling local officials, so the conflict became irreconcilable, and the two sides finally fought hard, and the servants also felt the need to take a strong stance, so the war immediately spread.

Xiao Ming was naturally very happy after getting the news, now his labor gap is still very large, if he uses the recruitment of craftsmen from the Great Song Dynasty, it will inevitably cost a lot of money, and this kind of expenditure is not in the budget, so he still needs a large number of prisoners and laborers, but he is not in a hurry about the situation in Goryeo, let them make trouble first, and make some preparations himself.

In addition to building a base in Hangzhou, Xiao Ming also developed the Zhoushan Islands outside Hangzhou Bay, which has many large and small islands, and has been an important fishing ground since ancient times, and the reason why Xiao Ming likes this place is that there are many good deep-water ports here, so the warships produced from the Hangzhou shipyard are basically anchored in the military port built in Zhoushan.

Because Xiao Ming attaches great importance to the manufacture of military ships, the most advanced shipbuilding technology is often applied to warships and then applied to civilian merchant ships, so Zhoushan Port is moored with the latest warships built from Liaodong Shipyard, Weihai Mizhou Shipbuilding and Hangzhou Shipyard.

Such a large fleet is a strong guarantee for Xiao Ming to prepare to open up the ocean, and the next step is to accommodate the southernmost part of the entire circle of influence around the sea, which includes the largest island, Taiwan Island, which was unified as Liuqiu at that time, and Liuqiu Island is an important supply base for a large number of immigrants and development.

In addition to this is the Philippine Islands south of the island of Taiwan, which in the Song Dynasty was known as Mayi, but these places are currently completely uncivilized areas, and many of them are still very primitive, but this has been included in Xiao Ming's circle of influence around the sea.

There was basically no need for any major military preparations to occupy such an island, but in case Xiao Ming had to plan in advance, and at the same time, on the route from Quanzhou to the South Sea, there could be no trouble that would pose a threat to this circle of influence, so Xiao Ming felt that it was imperative to unify Quanzhou and Guangzhou City.

Quanzhou City Bosi is currently developing very rapidly under the management of Pu Shoutao, and Quanzhou has become an important outflow of porcelain in the foreign trade of the Great Song Dynasty, not only that his youngest son Pu Shougeng has also been gradually brought out, this son is indeed a talent, not only does a good job in Sinology, but also has almost all the skills of his father's set of merchants.

In the autumn of the third year of Jianyan, Gaozong held an autumn examination in Hangzhou to select officials, due to the loss of Bianjing, the imperial examination has not been carried out normally, and this time the so-called "autumn examination" was not carried out in accordance with the normal imperial examination process, but now some selections and recommendations are held in various places, and finally the general examination is held in Hangzhou.

Many people who have been raising their minds for many years and are full of learning are eager to do this, and the recommendation and selection is jointly held by the government and the folk squires, so it gives those students who are unable to be officials all the year round a rare opportunity, and after arriving in Hangzhou, they can participate in a general examination after approval, and the general examination is to write a policy theory, expound their own ideas for governing the country and the world, and finally select the best articles and rankings, which is a special case of an official selection carried out by the Great Song Dynasty.

Among this group of students, there is a young man named Zhu Xi, but his grades are not good, and there is another person who is out of everyone's surprise, this person is not a person from Middle Earth, but a foreigner from his ancestral home of Dashi, named Pu Shougeng! This person is not only accomplished in Sinology**, the article is quite good, and this person is very young, he has just turned nineteen years old at the time!

For this person's article and knowledge, the invigilators of the Taixue University argued a lot, and finally gave him a ranking of three Tanhua, the news came out that the whole country was envious, and Pu Shougeng was young and ambitious, and he was also complacent, but he made a mistake in the court as an alternate official, what kind of official position should he be given?

Because he was a foreigner, he used to say, "Those who are not of my race will have different hearts!" "What kind of consequences will happen if the official position of the Great Song Dynasty is awarded to such a person, everyone is unanimous! In the end, it was Xiao Ming, who was the Taishi at the time, who spoke and regarded this person as an alternate for the Mingzhou City Ship Division, waiting to preside over the city ship trade for the Great Song Dynasty in the future.

Pu's father and son all ascended to the position of the competent officials of the Great Song Dynasty Customs because of Xiao Ming, and naturally they were grateful to Xiao Ming, but in fact they have become Xiao Ming's hardcore descendants, in May of the fourth year of Jianyan, Guangzhou City Bo Si promoted Pang Yongliang, and was reported by local officials for bribery and was impeached and lost by the supervision of the imperial history, and the officials who were sent by the supervision to verify returned to Feng Lu, and Feng Lu ordered a strict investigation on this.

The results of the strict investigation were quite shocking, and there were no less than 27 officials from Zhizhou involved in the two roads in Guangnan, which undoubtedly caused a lot of earthquakes to the officialdom of the two roads in Guangnan, and more than 100 officials were dismissed and resigned! Gaozong was furious and ordered strict punishment, so a large number of officials were exiled.

This kind of officialdom earthquake will not last long, although there are many officials who have fallen from power, but there are countless alternate officials, this time it is to solve a lot of those candidates who can not be officials all the year round, and the biggest reason for the corruption of so many officials on the two roads of Guangnan is nothing more than the huge profits brought by the large-scale overseas trade of the Guangzhou City Shipping Division.

In order to obtain the greatest profit in the official market, many merchants engaged in overseas trade continued to offer bribes to the people in charge of the city, so as to give preferential treatment in the imperial court in terms of procurement, so that they could obtain huge profits with shoddy goods.

After the officialdom earthquake, facing the reshuffle of some official and business interests, and the candidate promoted by the city department is the key to this, who will do the game involving the interests of all parties, but in the end it was a little-known foreigner who took office, and this person was Pu Shougeng!

People who don't know the inside story will guess where this Pu Shougeng is sacred, and why was he nominated by the imperial court to sit in such a well-oiled position? But those who know the inside story know that this is the result of the expansion of Xiao Ming's power, and Xiao Ming's sphere of influence has also smoothly expanded from Fujian to Guangzhou.

For the entire South and Central Plains, the Pearl River Delta was not only the economic and trade center of South China at that time, but also his position in the future will not be shaken by other regions, and if he controls the economic and trade development of Guangnan and Nan, he can smoothly control Hainan and obtain an economic and trade channel for the Li Yue Dynasty and Zhenla.

Within Xiao Ming's circum-sea sphere of influence, the location of Hainan Island is very important, just like the location of Taiwan Island, which means that Xiao Ming wants to control the first and second island chains outside the entire 13,000-kilometer coastline of China within his sphere of influence.

Therefore, sending Pu Shougeng to be the Guangzhou City Shipping Division is a necessary flag, through the huge overseas trade fleet of Richanglong, Xiao Ming is easy to help Pu Shougeng in obtaining political achievements, and Xiao Ming's Richanglong branch and Taiping Yinzhuang in Guangzhou and other places will also play a greater role.

At the same time, a huge army of road builders also began to move south, striving to build a railway from Quzhou to Quanzhou and then to Guangzhou within two years, and the railway bonds were sold in large areas in these places! And unexpectedly good results! This allowed Xiao Ming to have more wealth accumulation in the development of power throughout South China.

Xiao Ming originally wanted to deal with the chaos in Goryeo after all the commerce and trade in Guangdong and other places, but there was no longer time for him to wait, in the autumn of the fourth year of the Great Song Dynasty, the Jurchens attacked Kaesong on a large scale, and the Goryeo army was defeated and fled to the south, and gradually poured into Gyeongsang-do and Jeolla Province controlled by Xiao Ming!

The situation is a bit urgent, Xiao Ming must go north, but at this time, the Great Song Dynasty court announced that Xiao Ming was summoned to Beijing, and Gaozong Zhao Gou seemed to have something to find him......