"San brother, do you really want to be the king of Nanyue?"

A call is underway in the Jinling Imperial Palace, and it is underway.

The star-gazing building can not only see the stars, but also sleep and work. This is a three-story "high-rise building" built on the top platform of the mountain.

So Zhao Kai was tired of watching Xingxing last night, so he didn't go back to Funing Hall, so he simply went to bed on the Xingxing Tower.

I woke up after a sleep, it was almost noon and I was tired of staying up late to watch the stars!

So he simply used food on the Star Gazing Tower, and then summoned Zhao Qi and Zhang Bangchang to discuss the matter of recruiting Zhao Huan.

Zhao Qi was quite surprised to hear that Zhao Kai really wanted to confer Zhao Huan as the King of Nanyue!

He originally thought that Zhao Kai was just a fool to his sister-in-law Zhu Lian, but he didn't expect that his third brother would be so trustworthy and do what he said!

"Of course," Zhao Kai nodded, "A real man wants to be trusted! Since I promised to be the king of Nanyue, I will definitely be the one who has a letter!"

"The third brother is truly a benevolent and righteous king, I admire you!" Zhao Qi quickly admires you, can you not admire you? Li Shimin is so kind and righteous that Zhao Kai has appointed his sister-in-law as the queen and his elder brother as the king!

"Hahaha, brothers cannot be compatible, how can they accommodate Huanyu?" Zhao Kai said with a smile, "Sixth Brother, when you have finished your third brother, you will be the southeast 7th route to choose from!"

"Then I will thank the Lord for your kindness!"

"Hahaha, what are you grateful for? I should thank you if I can do my job of paying taxes to the people!"

"I must work hard to share my worries!"

In addition to watching the stars with Zhu Lian last night, Zhao Kai also discussed in-depth ways to govern the Southeast.

First of all, the two capitals are the two capitals.

Zhao Kai could not move the capital to Nanjing, but he could not ignore Nanjing, so he could only work harder and run away from both ends of Nanjing and Beijing.

Who made China's economic center move southward and military center move northward at the same time?

Of course, it is easy for an emperor to make money when living in Nanjing, but it is difficult to control the army in the north. If he fails, he will have to take the "Jingnan Battle" and the "Anshi Rebellion".

If you allow the wealthy towns in the southeast to ignore it, it would be equivalent to letting the barren lands in the north bear both military and finance. This was the case in the Ming Dynasty. The three border five towns of the nine border thirteen towns were in Shaanxi, and the people of Shaanxi also had to bear the total amount of tax and grain! Moreover, this was just the tax and grain that the households had to pay. While the military households in the three border thirteen towns had to pay grain at the same time, they had to pay grain at the same time!

Zhao Kai was not so unreasonable, and he also knew that the economy of southern China had great potential in the future. If Zhao Kai could lead the Song Dynasty into the Age of Discovery in the near future, the money in the south would increase greatly.

So he had to let the southerners pay the expenses of the court, and the southerners paid the expenses, and the northerners joined the army, which was Zhao Kai's top-level design!

In order to maintain this system, Zhao Kai had to adopt the two-government system.

Secondly, there are three major southeast departments, including the Southeastern Great Shipping Commission, the Southeast Great Salt Transport Commission, and the Nanjing Left-behind Department.

Among them, the Great Delivery Commission is located in Xiuzhou, responsible for shipping southeast wealth and goods to Tianjin Xiuzhou, which is the part of the demon capital Shanghai, which is just at the intersection of the southeast, north and south, north and south, and the Yangtze River. In addition, the Wusong River is also connected to the South Canal, which is the best transportation hub.

The first big shipping envoy, Zhao Kai, wanted to hand it over to his fifth brother Zhao Shu. He had a great influence in the Southern Song Dynasty navy and maritime business circles, and had a good relationship with Zhao Kai, so he was indeed the best candidate.

The Southeast Da Salt Transportation Commissioner is stationed in Yangzhou, while Yangzhou, Tongzhou, Taizhou and Chuzhou are all important salt industry centers!

Salt tax needs to be collected!

Moreover, the salt industry in the Song Dynasty had a strong financial function. The salt industry in the Song Dynasty could be used as money, which was equivalent to a banknote linked to salt.

So you have to hold it firmly in your hand!

The first Dasalt Transportation Commissioner was Zhao Kai's brother Zhao Zhi, and Zhao Zhi also served as Huaidong Road Transportation Commissioner.

The Nanjing Left-behind Office is an institution that controls Southeast finance and appeases Southeast civil officials, and is temporarily controlled by Empress Jingkang Zhu Lian.

The third measure to control the finances in the southeast is to use the royal family and civil servants to manage the financial resources in the southeast. This is also a helpless choice, because the consequence of letting civil officials completely control the finances will inevitably be the overall expansion of civil officials. And it is not enough to let the Northern Prefecture Group take over the transportation routes in the south. Is it worth it to have both soldiers and money?

Therefore, the most feasible way is to enable the royal family and let them work with civil officials to make money.

Under this idea, except for Huaidong Road and Southeast Salt Industry handed over to Zhao Zhi, the seven Cao ministers including Liangzhe, Liangjiang, Huaixi, Fujian, and Jingnan will be held by the royal family.

The three routes of Cao ministers including Jingbei, Shandong, Sichuan will continue to be served by civil officials.

The fourth measure is to enfeoff the Kingdom of Nanyue and let Zhao Huan, who ran away, and Zhao Chen and his son have a territory and status to settle down, and at the same time they can drive them to expand south.

This is Zhao Kai’s plan to drive away tigers and swallow wolves!

However, Zhao Qi and Zhang Bangchang did not think that Zhao Huan was a tiger

After showing loyalty and determination, Zhao Qi touched Zhao Kai's bottom in a roundabout way.

"San Ge'er, is the territory of this Nanyue Kingdom the same as the Nanyue Kingdom founded by Zhao Tuo?"

Zhang Bangchang frowned and reminded: "The official family, Jiaozhi of the South Vietnamese Kingdom, and Jiuzhen County are the current Vietnamese Kingdom."

"What kind of Vietnam? It is the Protector of Annan!" Zhao Kai said, "The Lord of Annan is the Protector of Annan of the Song Dynasty, the Jinghai Army Jiedushi, and the Prince of Jiaozhi!"

The name of Vietnam came from the Ding Dynasty. The founding monarch of Ding Dynasty, the leader of the Ding Dynasty, praised Zhao Kuangyin and was named the Chief of the Procuratorate and the Prince of Vietnam. Later, the Li Dynasty came to power and became the Protector of Annan, the Jiedushi of Jinghai Army, and the Prince of Jiaozhi.

Zhao Kai said to Zhang Bangchang: "Zhang Qing, after you have granted the title of King of Nanyue, go to the Annan Protectorate's Mansion and tell Annan Protectorate that their Annan Protectorate's Mansion is now under the control of the King of Nanyue!"

Zhao Qi, Zhang Bangchang finally understood that Zhao Kai wanted to use a knife to kill his brother!

If you want to use the sword of Annan people to deal with Zhao Huan, even if the father and son of Zhao Chen cannot kill them, they can still make trouble for Zhao Huan. Zhao Chen's vitality is severely damaged, so it will not be difficult to deal with it again!

It's really too high!

In August of the tenth year of Jingkang in the Song Dynasty, the outer sea of ​​Guangnan East Road.

The bow of the Shenzhou Ding warship plowed a snow-white wave on the blue Zero Ding Ocean, and its tracks were straight to the west. The sailors on the deck were conducting artillery exercises. With the commands from a naval officer, the gunners skillfully filled the training medicine bags and training bullets into the barrel of the twelve five-pound long cannons placed on the upper deck, and then conducted simulated launches.

This Shenzhou Ding is the No. 4 ship of the "Shenzhou-type" gunship of the Southern Song Dynasty. Compared with the previous No. 1 and 2 ships, it has undergone a major change and is almost a brand new warship.

First of all, the hull of the Shenzhou Ding was greatly strengthened!

Because the hulls of the two Shenzhou gunboats were not strong enough, the hulls were fired and damaged by the guns, and the Shenzhou B had suffered major damage, so they had to be scrapped in advance. The hulls of Shenzhou C had been strengthened to a certain extent, and the twelve kilograms of heavy cannons were abandoned and the light five-jin cannon was changed to a light five-jin cannon, so they are still in service.

Secondly, the artillery equipped by the Shenzhou Ding has also been improved, changing from the "big and useless" twelve-jin cannon to the "small and powerful" five-jin cannon.

This five-jin cannon was not developed by the Southern Song Dynasty, but was "stolen" from the Northern Song Dynasty. During Zhao Kai's northern expedition to Yanyun, in order to prevent Zhao Huan from learning from Sun Quan's sneak attack on Jingzhou, several forts were set up in the Hanyang Army and Jiangling Prefecture, and equipped five-jin long-drunk cannons. However, these forts did not encounter sneak attacks by the mainland army of the Southern Song Dynasty, but encountered Zhao Huan's sugar-coated cannonballs!

Several greedy and lustful utility gunners defected to the Southern Song Dynasty, and also brought drawings and artillery manuals for five-jin long cannons!

With the drawings and artillery manuals, the craftsmen of the Southern Song Dynasty could of course cast five-jin cannons according to their own rules. After all, there was no gap in bronze casting technology between the two sides. Moreover, the craftsmen of the Southern Song Dynasty had also been exploring to cast many cannons and had accumulated some experience.

However, this kind of five-jin cannon cannot change the weakness of the Southern Song Dynasty's Main Division. After all, the gap between the Southern Song Dynasty's Main Division and the Northern Song Dynasty's Army is all-round, and it will not be reversed just by having one or two hundred bronze five-jin cannons. Besides, the Southern Song Dynasty's Main Division did not have enough horses to drag these cannons, and the inoperable cannons are of little use in field battles. Therefore, the Southern Song Dynasty's Main Division did not have a large number of five-jin bronze cannons, and their preferred field cannons are the lighter eight-two camel cannons.

However, the Southern Song Navy immediately regarded this five-jin bronze cannon copied from the Northern Song Dynasty as a treasure and quickly used them to eliminate all other types of cannons.

On the Shenzhou Ding battleship that Zhao Huan was riding, a total of 36 five-jin long cannons were installed!

Among them, twelve doors were installed on the upper deck, twenty doors were installed on the lower gun deck, and four doors were located at the stern of the ship to fire backwards.

It is no exaggeration to say that with this Shenzhou Ding alone, the Southern Song Dynasty's navy was enough to dominate the Beiyang, the East, the South and the West to fight the world invincible.

But such a powerful navy has no use in the battle between the two Song dynasties.

Zhao Huan, who had been at sea for some days and was blackened by the sun, was standing on the high bulging back deck. Looking at the soldiers below, he couldn't help but sigh!

OK, why did it reach this point?

While he was sighing, footsteps suddenly came from behind. Zhao Huan turned around and found that it was the new Right Privy Councilor Li Ruoxu.

Li Ruoxu saluted Zhao Huan, and then said to him: "Official family, we can go to Yashan tonight!"

"Yashan?" Zhao Huan asked, "Isn't it Guangzhou?"

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Li Ruoxu said: "The situation in Guangzhou is unknown, so the fleet should go to Yashan Harbor first. It is not too late to go to Guangzhou after you find out the news."

What he meant is that I don’t know if Guangzhou was taken down by Zhao Kai yet

After hearing this, Zhao Huan couldn't help but sigh again: "Well, let's go to Yashan for a while!"
Chapter completed!