The spring in the ten years of Hongwu in the Song Dynasty gradually became richer in the Shuntian Prefecture in Beijing. After several spring rains that were as expensive as oil, the dry and cold and long winter was finally replaced by a slightly warm and humid spring. This spring brought not only warm and humid to Shuntian Prefecture in Beijing, but also economic prosperity.

As Zhao Kai returned in late February of the tenth year of Hongwu, he returned to his capital, Shuntian Prefecture, Beijing, the city that lost its former prosperity due to years of war, almost became vibrant overnight.

Because Zhao Kai and his Southern Expedition Army returned with a full load this time!

Those who returned to Beijing with them were countless silks, tea, gold and silver, copper coins, spices, rouge and powder, four treasures of study, books and paintings, overseas treasures, and of course, businessmen from the Southeast.

Some of these people and things were brought back to Shuntian Prefecture by soldiers who returned triumphantly, while others were transported by sea to the newly built Tianjin Shanggang, and then transported to the site of Shuntian Prefecture New City (located near Tongzhou) through Lushui.

Because of the blood transfusion from the prosperous southeast of the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, which was originally poor, finally became an outbreaker.

Before, Zhao Kai's "poor Song Dynasty court" looked very large, but the total value of the goods that could be recorded was only 1,000 million yuan. Since the tenth year of Hongwu, the Eighth Route Transportation Commission and the Dayan Transportation Commission in the southeast, including Liangjiang, Lianghuai, Liangzhe, Fujian, Jingnan, etc., and the Dayan Transportation Commission will transport more than 4,000 million yuan of goods to the Song Dynasty court every year!

The annual income tripled!

With the support of this large amount of money, the entire Beijing Road has become a spirit of working hard since the spring of the tenth year of Hongwu!

Long before Zhao Kai launched this southern expedition, his Shuntian court had already formulated a Beijing Road construction strategy that looked ambitious at the time and now looked a little petty. He planned to invest a few million yuan in five years to build Shuntianfu New City and Tianjin Mall. He also planned to repair the urgently built ridges used to guard the entrances of Yanshan. Although the ridges made of sandbags had strong defense capabilities in actual combat, they were not durable. Because most of the sandbags were made of straw, the straw would rot over time, and the soil inside would collapse easily if it lost the wrapping of the straw bags. To allow these ridges to exist for a long time, they still had to rammed earth to wrap bricks.

A rammed earth-covered brick bricks is expensive!

Moreover, there are many mountain passes in Yanshan, otherwise the Ming Dynasty would not have used the method of building the Great Wall's side wall to block the entrance!

In addition, Zhao Kai also wanted to use the method of building a battalion and occupying a territory to take down the entire Yanshan Mountains. Yanshan is very large, with an area of ​​more than 800 miles from east to west and nearly 400 miles from north to south! Moreover, the climate is relatively humid and the vegetation is very lush. There are many valleys and river valleys with development value scattered among them.

Only when these valleys and river valleys become the territory of the prefectures and soldiers Zhechong Mansions or the noble maids' villages, and are controlled with rammed earth-covered bricks, can the Yanshan Mountains truly become the northern vassal screen that protects the heart of the Central Plains.

In addition to the vast Yanshan Mountains, the Bashang grassland in the northwest of the Yanshan Mountains must also be controlled with the bastions of Zhechong Prefecture and Xunguimuzhuang!

Controlling the grassland on the dam is not only to protect Beijing Road, but also to steadily occupy a large area of ​​horse-raising land for the Song Dynasty. Raising horses in the "Kaifeng Grassland" is not a long-term solution after all!

Raising 100,000 or 200,000 horses in Kaifeng Prefecture is OK, but it really costs one million to raise them. The cost is lower.

In short, if you want to re-introduce the treasure land of Yanyun's Sixteen Prefectures, which has been lost for 200 years, into the arms of China, you must firmly occupy it. Without an investment of tens of millions, you can't even think about it.

Now, I have obtained the Southeast treasure land that is rich and rich. It seems that tens of millions are not a big deal. Isn’t it easy to do it quickly?

Just when the civil and military officials of the Shuntian court were about to work hard to build a few years of infrastructure, a piece of silk that was stabbed with "The Southern Emperor comes out, the Heavenly Li rises" or "The Southern Emperor comes out, the Dali rises", was sent to Zhao Kai's case by Zhang Jun, who was promoted to the Nanzhen Fushi Department!

Today, the court discussion in Yaochi Hall is discussing this matter!

"The Southern Emperor came out, and Duan Yu Xing Dali was so brave. He dared to proclaim himself the Southern Emperor. Is this going to be on an equal footing with me? What Eight-Nation Alliance he had joined before and wanted to divide the accounts of the Song Dynasty. I haven't settled it with him yet. He actually jumped out with his own courage. I can't tolerate him anymore!"

As soon as Zhao Kai said this, the ministers in the Yaochi Hall were stunned.

Why is it "Nan Emperor comes out, Dali rises"? It is obviously "Nan Emperor comes out, Tianli rises"! Although the horizontal line on the character "Tian" is a bit short, it may be disconnected (the character with a black thread), it is still "Tian" no matter how you look at it! Why did you, the top scholar, recognize the wrong word?

Also, who is Duan Yu?

The current Dali king is clearly called Duan Zhengyan! And I haven’t heard of how high the martial arts skills and how strong the courage is? Could it be that the king of Dali kingdom has been replaced?

In fact, Duan Zhengyan is Duan Yu. Before he ascended the throne and became the Emperor of Dali, he was named "Duan Heyu". Without the word "he", he was Duan Yu. Moreover, his father's name was Duan Zhengchun, the previous emperor of Dali Kingdom, his uncle's name was Duan Zhengming, and his uncle's emperor, and his name was also the emperor of Dali Kingdom. These people have all the names, so Duan Zhengyan is undoubtedly Duan Yu, the "No. 1 in the world of martial arts"!

Now Nan Murong and Bei Xiaofeng are gone, and Wang Chongyang doesn’t know where they are? So Duan Yu should be the best martial arts master in the world.

However, times have changed. Now there are cannons and pots. Even if Duan Yu really has the Six-Meridian Divine Sword, he can't beat cannons!

So Zhao Kai felt it was time to clean up Dali!

At the same time, Zhao Kai planned to tolerate Zhao Chen as the son of Zhu Lian, the "good sister-in-law"!

Zhao Kai has gained many benefits from Zhu Lian, so why do you have to give some face?

Besides, Zhao Chen's approach to "the Southern Emperor comes out and the Heavenly Law is prosperous" is clearly necessary to implement the policy of advancing south. This matter is not harmful to Zhao Kai, so why should we send troops to conquer? Moreover, once we fight with Zhao Chen, overseas trade in the southeast will definitely be greatly affected, which will affect the wealth of the Eighth Routes in the Southeast.

Therefore, after seeing the Yubao Book of "The Southern Emperor comes out and the laws of heaven are prosperous", he casually put the "Nan Emperor" hat on Duan Yu's head.

In fact, this did not wrongly accuse him. Although Duan Yu had been vain to the Song Dynasty after ascending the throne, he was also named Jin Zi Guanglu Dafu, Procurator Sikong, Yunnan Jieduan, Shangzhu Kingdom, and Dali King. However, in Dali, he did claim to be an emperor. His father Duan Zhengchun was also posthumously named Emperor Wen'an and the temple name of Zhongzong of Dali.

Duan Yu, a military governor in Yunnan, had been the emperor for so many years, how could he not deal with it?

Even if Zhao Chen is now called the Southern Emperor, Duan Yu is the first to be the emperor! He has to come first and then come to fight against the rebellious son! He has to queue up for this matter, right?

Duan Yu took over the throne of Dali from Duan Zhengchun, who was avoiding his position in the second year of Daguan in Zhuangzong, and became the 16th emperor of Dali!

Look, if you have been the sixteen emperors, will you still be the one who has been the emperor?

Seeing that the ministers below were all stunned and no one caught his words, Zhao Kai knew that the people below must have never heard of the name of Duan Yu of Dali, so he said again: "When the Southern Emperor comes out, Dali Xing must have been tortured by Duan Zhengyan, who was the emperor. I want to send troops to attack him!"

Oh, it turns out that Duan Yu is Duan Zhengyan!

Now everyone understands.

"Your Majesty, I think the court does not have to make a big fight for the mere Dali Kingdom."

Chen Ji, the left prime minister who had been a Sichuan Road Transport Author for several years and was very familiar with the situation of Dali Kingdom, came out to work and said at this time: "Dali's national strength is weak, Dali is controlled by the powerful minister Gao, and the barbarians are rebelling and unable to invade our borders at all. Those who participate in the Eight-Nation Alliance are mostly false news and are not trustworthy."

In fact, this is not a rumor. It is just that Zhao Huan is talking nonsense that the Li family in Annan did find several alliances, but there was absolutely no Eight-Nation Alliance, and he dared not think about dividing the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty was full of strong ships and cannons, so who would dare to provoke them?

Zhao Kai snorted, "What if this is false?"

Seeing that Zhao Kai was about to get angry, Chen Ji said calmly: "Even if there is nothing wrong, you can't launch a large number of troops! In fact, the court can send envoys to Dali to question him for being usurped and called himself emperor, and find out the affairs of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and then ask him to correct his mistakes and merge him into the court to apologize."

When entering the court to apologize? Zhao Kaixin said: That is to make Duan Yu surrender!

"Is he willing to enter the court?" Zhao Kai asked, "Is he willing to enter the court as a minister in the 16th generation of the Southern Heavenly Dominance?"

Chen Ji smiled and said, "Your Majesty can send heavenly soldiers to put the country in a downfall. If you refuse, it will be a disaster for the country to be destroyed! However, I do not recommend that Your Majesty keep him in the court as an official."

"Don't leave him in court?" Zhao Kai asked, "Can you put it back and continue to cause trouble?"

Chen Ji said: "Your Majesty doesn't know that although the Dali Kingdom regards Duan as its monarch, the one who really holds power is the Gao clan of the latter clan. Now the one who holds power is the prime minister Gao Shunzhen. If Your Majesty wants Gao Shunzhen to enter the court, it will definitely be more difficult than forcing Duan Zhengyan to enter the court."

"Is that true?" Zhao Kai smiled, his eyes swam on several Privy Councilors in the court, and the deputy Privy Councilors. Now the left and right Privy Councilors are Han Shizhong and Yue Fei respectively, and Li Shifu and Dong Jingang are all deputy envoys. Which of them will be sent to capture Duan Yu?

"Your Majesty," Chen Ji didn't want to fight against Dali, so he hurriedly said to Zhao Kai, "We can first deceive Duan Zhengyan into the court, and then grant him the title of Yunnan Jiedushi, the prince of Dali. If we send troops in his name, we will definitely win without bloodshed."

This idea is pretty good

Zhao Kai asked: "Remembering this, who can go to Dali and bring Duan Zhengyan for me?"

"Your Majesty," Chen said, "I recommend the powerful magistrate of Luzhou, Wang Zhongfu and the Zunyi Army envoy Yang Xuan to Dali Country."
Chapter completed!