Zhao Fujin wrote a letter to Zhao Gou and asked Xiao Ming to send it to Gaozong! Xiao Ming felt a headache at this time, but he couldn't refuse, so he considered going back to Hangzhou to see Zhao Gou's reaction, so he set off to go back to Hangzhou, and he asked Zhao Fujin if he wanted to go back together? But Zhao Fujin seemed to be addicted, and she didn't even go back with him.

If you don't go back, you won't go back, just in time for two large ships of thousands of Goryeo immigrants to arrive, Zhao Fujin was busy again, Xiao Ming had to go on the road alone, in addition to coordinating the supply of migrant ships along the way in Quanzhou and Fuzhou, he also had to mobilize some merchant ships to carry a large number of agricultural tools to Taiwan.

Five days later, Xiao Ming returned to Hangzhou, and at this time Gaozong Zhao Gou was not in Hangzhou, he actually went to Jinling Kangjing to inspect the progress of the palace capital, Xiao Ming was helpless, Zhao Fujin's letter asked for something, it seems that he can only wait until Zhao Gou returns, but Xiao Ming still entered the palace.

In addition to meeting the two queen mothers, Xiao Ming also brought a large number of southern specialties to the palace, the Empress Dowager Longyu and the Empress Dowager Wei expressed their gratitude to Xiao Ming, Xiao Ming knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and asked the two queen mothers for marriage, can the lord of Fumao marry Xiao Ming? I hope that the Queen Mother's decree will allow it!

The two empresses looked at each other, and the lord of Fumao had already been designated as Xiao Ming's wife, because on the one hand, there were already three ladies in Xiao Ming's family, and the princess was married as a concubine, and the other question was that Zhao Fujin had run away from home and had not returned, and Zhao Fujin wrote a letter to the two queen mothers claiming that he was living happily overseas and had no intention of returning.

Clear-eyed people know that the princess must be with Xiao Ming, but this matter is not easy to say everywhere, after all, where is the dignity of the royal family, but the lord of Fumao is getting older and older, and it is not a matter of mixing with Xiao Ming all the year round, and the two queen mothers have long regarded Xiao Ming as a concubine.

If this continues, not only will there be no way to say it internally, but it will also be difficult to say it externally, so let the young people deal with the affairs of the young people themselves, Empress Dowager Wei said: "Is this matter discussed when the emperor returns?" ”

Xiao Ming said: "The county lord has a saying, the lifelong events of children have their own elders and parents to make decisions and approvals, and now the two queen mothers are her elders and parents, as long as you two agree!" ”

Empress Dowager Longyu and Empress Dowager Wei still didn't have a good idea after looking at each other, Xiao Ming then said: "Xiao Ming guarantees that the county lord has the same status as other wives at home, I originally had only one lady besides the original match who is the queen of the Great Xia Kingdom, the county lord and her are both side wives, there is no superiority, Xiao Ming loves the county lord, and will not let her suffer the slightest grievance!" ”

It's all said and done, and the two queen mothers can't say anything more, since it's a princess, this wedding has to be held, right? But Xiao Ming had no choice but to scratch his head about this matter, he said that Zhao Fujin was now arranging immigration affairs on Daliuqiu Island as the eldest princess of the Great Song Dynasty, and he was very busy, and this wedding may have to drag on for some time!

This news surprised the two queen mothers, the lord of Fumao has had a habit of dressing up as a man since he was a child, and now he is doing this big thing, although there is a royal system, but she must be obstinate on this matter, what others are saying is useless, Xiao Ming then handed Zhao Fujin's letter to the two queen mothers, asking them to help hand it over to Emperor Gaozong, and he himself said that he would go north to Liaodong immediately, and there was no way to wait for Gaozong to come back!

Xiao Ming was busy with official business, and the two queen mothers had no choice, but since they agreed to marry the princess, the royal dowry and gifts should always be given, so a large number of flowers were blooming, and the palace gave Lin Luo silk and satin official kiln porcelain, treasure jewelry, jade and gold hairpins and other things that the princess needed and fifty palace maids were given to Xiao Ming by the queen mother.

Xiao Ming sent a lot of these things to Zhao Fujin to send to Taiwan Island, Her Royal Highness the dignified princess of the Song Kingdom, although she has a lot of rouge and gouache, but it is indeed impossible to say that there is no palace maid around to serve her, you can't always let a group of Zihuwei men surround it, and some daily application things, always follow Xiao Ming, the big old man.

Xiao Ming didn't actually leave immediately, he secretly met a person in a restaurant opened by Richang in Hangzhou, this person was Xue Bingchang! Speaking of Xue Bingchang, he is like a double agent, on the one hand, he will provide Xiao Ming with all the information in Gaozong and the imperial court, and on the other hand, he will also report some of Xiao Ming's actions to Gaozong Zhao Gou without reservation, which is more in line with his true character of a philistine!

So many things, Xiao Ming is willing to let Xue Bingchang know, and is willing to reveal them to him, so that he can convey them to Zhao Gou, sometimes, some secret things will be hidden from Xue Bingchang, but now Xiao Ming is also a little frightened by Xue Bingchang's pedestrian division, because these "spies" from the Yaxing Gang are really powerful, and Xiao Ming has to guard against it!

Xue Bingchang revealed to Xiao Ming some of the recent movements of the imperial court, first of all, Li Gang was seriously ill and coughed up blood, and he was very disappointed in Gaozong, that was because the current Gaozong Zhao Gou was openly supporting some officials who were working against Li Gang, and he seemed to be more enthusiastic about this kind of struggle above the court, and he was not very concerned about the strong desire of Yue Fei and Wu Yu and other generals for the Northern Expedition.

And now Gaozong Zhao Gou is fully favored by a privy councillor editor named Wan Qiao, this Wan Qiao's character Yuanzhong, a native of Kaifeng Yangwu, has always been an official in the land of Xiangfan in Hubei, and has served as a Hubei transfer judge and Hubei Prison and other positions, thinking that he has a grudge against Yue Fei, and was once demoted by Li Gang, but this person is now Gaozong's favorite minister!

Wan Qian is a famous traitor in history, this Xiao Ming knows, but he is really the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty after Qin Hui, and he is also Qin Hui's party member.

In fact, traitors have their own traitors, they are afraid that loyal ministers will not live long, Li Gang Li Taishi is seriously ill, which really makes Xiao Ming very worried, he feels the need to visit this famous politician of the Great Song Dynasty, the current Great Song Dynasty is basically supported by him alone, if there is something to do, then Li Gang is undoubtedly the person who is very willing to do things.

Li Gang's mansion turned out to be in Xicheng, as we all know, Hangzhou's Xicheng is the poorest and oldest place, but ten years ago Xiao Ming made his fortune here, and now Xicheng has restored the feeling of slums due to the move out of Xicheng Iron Works, but now the slums are a huge number of outsiders, and the locals have become solid and wealthy people!

Hangzhou City has been a myth over the years, here has created a large number of factories, created a large amount of wealth, solved the problem of eating for most people, this is to attract a large number of outsiders to come to pan for gold, many people believe that Hangzhou this place will make themselves run from time to time, rich and rich.

But in fact, such a large number of people are living at the bottom of the society, doing some menial jobs, such as coachmen, port coolies, or street vendors, for this kind of people's livelihood, maybe people like Li Gang will pay more attention to this kind of livelihood, he has done a lot of work in this area since he took office, the imperial court scoops up a lot of money every year to relieve the poor, or place many people to work in government-run workshops and factories to improve their living conditions, so Li Gang still has a high prestige in the hearts of ordinary people.

But the current Li Mansion is located in an old neighborhood in Xicheng, and when Xiao Ming came to the door, the little maid in the Li Mansion was making a fire and boiling medicine! Hearing that Xiao Ming came to visit him, Li Gang dragged the sick body out to greet him in person, Xiao Ming took two steps to support Li Gang, only to find that it had only been a few years, and Li Gang was already old with gray hair!

Li Gang's illness is also a disease caused by hard work, Xiao Ming is very unhappy, if it weren't for his own picking, it may not be enough for Li Gang to be tired like this, he gave Li Gang a pulse, thinking that there was a problem with his lung meridians, this is not too difficult disease, but it needs to be recuperated, Xiao Ming has not touched the golden needle for a long time, this time it is specially for Li Gang to recuperate.

Xiao Ming used Hua Tuo's hand to sweep the acupoints of Li Gang's hand Taiyin Lung Meridian with a golden needle, and implemented a conditioning with great dedication, after the golden needle, Li Gang felt much more relaxed, but Xiao Ming told Li Gang that his lung meridian veins were still very stagnant, which required a long time of recuperation, and suggested that he resign from his official position to recuperate with peace of mind.

But Li Gang shook his head with a wry smile, how could he let go of state affairs, Yue Fei fled with Liu Yu's army on Jingdong Road, and had recovered Yingchang Mansion, Li Gang was already exhausted in the allocation of military supplies, Li Gang was not as good as Xiao Ming, he was worth a lot of money and had the support of Yinzhuang, and the silver of the household and the military department was really not so easy to want.

Xiao Ming has not been the envoy of the Southeast Five-Way System for a long time, but there are still some taxes for the imperial court, why is Li Gang worried about a little military supply? Li Gang told Xiao Ming that the construction of Kangjing had seriously exceeded the budget by a lot, and Gaozong listened to Wan Qiao's slander and invested a large amount of money in the construction of Xinjing.

Xiao Ming touched on the construction of the entire Jinling City Kangjing, due to the large use of stones as building materials, and a large number of explosives quarrying provided by Xiao Ming, plus nearly 100,000 captive labor troops, although the cost may be a little more, but it will not exceed the budget too much, right?

Unless it is that Gaozong wants to rebuild the entire capital in an extremely luxurious way, because Xiao Ming's cement factory and glass factory have received a large amount of orders from the royal family, then such a palace and some special buildings in the capital may seriously exceed the budget, Li Gang told Xiao Ming that because his railway construction on the southeast fifth road has been connected to Jiangnan Road, a large number of precious timber has been transported.

This shows that for the construction of Xinjing, Gaozong has been mobilizing the resources of the whole country! This is undoubtedly criticized by Li Gang and a large number of other ministers, and some people continue to write letters hoping that Gaozong will save people's wealth and resources, but Zhao Gou obviously did not listen, and he is now extremely concerned about his new capital construction and imperial palace.

Xiao Ming persuaded Li Gang that since the emperor focused his attention on the construction of the new capital, Li Gang was still in charge of the government and hoped that he would be able to select a group of officials who could really do things, and as for the financial resources, since the sale of railway bonds in the first stage was completed, and the third stage was still to be sold on a large scale, Xiao Ming could support Li Gang so as not to let him worry about finances.

Xiao Ming said goodbye and left, although Li Gang strongly persuaded Xiao Ming to return to the court, and the two of them were in charge of the government, but Xiao Ming still refused! He is really tired of being an official now, and besides, he still has more things to do, and the construction of the circle of influence around the sea is in a critical place, and if the problem of the Japanese archipelago is not solved, it is obviously always a major matter that weighs on Xiao Ming's heart.

At this stage, in the entire Song Dynasty, the construction of the railway network, which belongs to the East Jingdong Road, is the most complete in Shandong, and the steam locomotive of the Longmo family of Richang is also preferentially used here, not only the use of goods transportation or passenger transport has basically achieved initial results, but also the wealth brought by the opening of the railway is gradually accumulating.

Xiao Ming felt that it was time to carry out the second phase of currency issuance, so he deliberately went north to Shandong to inspect it, and if the first batch of short-term bonds matured, then the latest currency would be completely used for rebates.