In the 30th year of Hongwu, in mid-February, the south of the Yangtze River was already in spring, but the area around Shuntianfu in Beijing was still shrouded in a chilly spring cold, and there was also a drizzling spring rain. In the door opening of Yong'anmen Gate in the south of Shuntianfu Daling Castle, there were two carriages with a slightly "trendy" shape parked. They were all four-wheeled and double-horse, and the carriage was wide. The windows on both sides of the carriage were also equipped with turbid but translucent flat glass windows!

The two carriages were parked one by one, one by one, and the grooms were sitting in the front row, hunching their necks and sleeves, waiting for the owners of the two carriages to speak. In front and behind the carriages, more than a dozen horse-riding warriors wearing straw raincoats were waiting carefully.

Obviously, the identities of the owners of these two carriages are unusual!

Now these two unusual car owners are sitting in the four-wheeled carriage in front, and are in arousing talk.

"I really didn't expect that after ten years of separation, I returned to Middle Earth, even the carriage had two more wheels. The thing that was so expensive in the past was now installed on the window to shelter from the wind and rain!"

The speaker was Wei Sheng, who was standing in the observation basket of the Ping'an expedition ship that day, found Wei Sheng, who was now a Zhaozhou military envoy under the Dongzhou Jiedulu. He had served as an official in the Dongzhou Continent, that is, the New World, for ten consecutive years. He had only got the opportunity to return to Zhongtu and report his duties. He took a boat for several months and had just returned to Nanjing in October of the 29th year of Hongwu. Then he spent more than a month rushing to travel, and finally arrived at Shuntian Prefecture before the 30th Spring Festival.

"There are not many novel things like this in Shuntian Prefecture in Beijing. Nanjing is full of strange things, and all kinds of strange tricks and tricks are endless. Yanwei (Wei Sheng's font size) you must have passed by Nanjing in a hurry and didn't notice those things."

His old boss who spoke to Wei Sheng, the current Tongzhi Privy Council and Tongzhi Navy commander Sheng Xin. He was also a beneficiary of the adventure of exploring Europe eastward. Although Europe was not discovered in that operation, he also lost an expedition ship. The Fu'an, which left the Japanese queen, was missing, disappeared in the vast ocean forever!

However, after the New Year, Sheng Xin led two ships of Ping'an and Yong'an, carrying dozens of "Frank savages" back to Nanjing. After reporting the amazing discovery, he received an unexpected reward and was named "Frank Marquis" by Zhao Kai. Yang Qin, who returned with him, was named "Engliber".

The more than 100 crew members who followed them back, as well as crew members who stayed in the New World to guard the "Frank Fort" all were also promoted.

Because of this great reward, the Song Dynasty's Navy's enthusiasm for exploring the "New World of Dongzhou" suddenly increased. In the next ten years, almost every year, several expedition ships set off from the ports of Nanjing or Tianjin, crossing the ocean to explore the unknown wild continent opposite the East Ocean.

The Navy's promotion quickly attracted the attention of the Army.

How can such a good thing be exclusive to the navy?

So in the 19th year of Hongwu, that is, two years after the news of the discovery of the New World was revealed to the Song Dynasty, Yue Fei, the left Privy Council envoy of the Privy Council, and Li Fuchen, envoy of the Right Privy Council, suggested to Zhao Kai to send an expeditionary force composed of the army's long-term conquest, criminals and prisoners of war to conduct a thorough exploration of the Dongzhou continent in order to find out the area of ​​this continent and find a route to Europe to steal Rome. The golden thieves who had to be eliminated!

The Roman king is still waiting in Guangzhou to be the "Arthur Dora" who is in Song Dynasty!

Of course, Zhao Kai would support the Army's exploration because he also wanted to figure out how big this continent is?

Well, he can no longer remember what happened on the American continent, nor do he remember anything about the United States that is old and has no memory!

After this exploration, I discovered that the new continent is vast and boundless! This continent is unexpectedly large, and it is probably even bigger than the Song Dynasty of the Middle Earth (original Song Dynasty, but now the New World of Dongzhou) is discovered. How big is it? The army expedition team with more than 1,000 people cannot understand it!

Moreover, the New World in Dongzhou is not completely wild. In the southern part of the New World (not South America), there are still some "Frank savages" who have mastered farming techniques and started to establish cities, some of which are quite warlike!

The Army's exploration team soon clashed with these belligerent "Franks". After invading a "Frank" city, the Song Army's expedition team also made an even more amazing discovery that the "Franks" in the south had a lot of gold!

The story after discovering gold is of course exciting!

The Dongzhou Continent changed from a topic of the Song people in Middle Earth after dinner to a place of wealth that everyone is jealous of.

Although there is thousands of miles away from the Song Dynasty, it takes more than half a year to travel once, and you have to risk being swallowed up by the waves on the sea.

However, the temptation of gold was too difficult for Zhao Kai's sons and brothers to resist. So Zhao Kai granted the east coast of the East China Continent where gold might exist to his own sons Zhao Lun, Zhao Ping and others, as well as his own brothers and brothers.

Under the organization of these people, a gold rush and a craze for pioneering a new world began twenty-five years after Hongwu.

From the 25th year of Hongwu to the present, more than 5,000 Song people traveled across the ocean to the New World to make money every year, and thousands of criminals were exiled to the New World.

After the total number of Song people who moved to the New World exceeded 10,000, Zhao Kai established the thirteen states of the New World, including "Zhao", "Qin", "Wei", "Chu", "Yan", "Han", "Zheng", "Qi", "Lu", "Wu", "Yue", "Jin", and "Liang" on the west coast of the Dongzhou Continent.

Wei Sheng is the military envoy of Zhaozhou, among the thirteen states. Although there are not many soldiers and horses under it, he cannot withstand the gold mountains in his jurisdiction!

Although his official position is not too great, his wealth has attracted everyone's attention.

And he was able to make money like this, of course, he had a backstage, Zhaozhou, who was the fief of Zhao Lun, the king of Zhao Lun, and Wei Sheng could serve as the envoy of Zhaozhou, which was promoted by Zhao Lun.

This time he traveled thousands of miles and came back from the New World to report his work. Of course, there was no real important matter to tell Emperor Zhao Kai, but to give gold to his benefactor Zhao Lun.

Now is the critical moment when the two brothers Zhao Lun and Zhao Ping compete for the throne for the throne, these two princes are princes, while Zhao Kai has never enthroned the crown prince.

And these two princes knew that it was not simple to enthrone King Zhao, Zhao was a national surname! What does it mean to enthrone King Zhao?

Zhao Ping's King of Qin seems to be not bad either. Qin defeated the six kingdoms and unified China. The King of Qin is naturally the leader of all the kings!

Moreover, Zhao Kai highly praised Li Shimin, who was the second son and the King of Qin. Zhao Ping was also the second son and the King of Qin.

Therefore, the ministers in the Song Dynasty couldn't figure out what Zhao Kai meant now. Should he want to establish Zhao Lun or Zhao Ping?

Both Zhao Lun and Zhao Ping felt that they had a chance, so they worked hard to form cliques and form the Zhao King Party and the Qin King Party.

The prince's partying matter should be a taboo for the king!

However, Zhao Kai ignored it and not only did he not ask, but seemed to encourage his two sons to form a party and compete. He also sent his two sons to serve as the governor of Longyou and the governor of Liaodong, asking them to lead troops to attack Tubo and Jurchens (savage Jurchens) and open up territory for the country.

After the two sons were victorious and returned to court, Zhao Kai asked them to hold important positions in the east and west governments, and they also made friends with the kings.

"Chengde," Wei Sheng and Sheng Xin have a good relationship. They are both from the Zhao King Party, so they are naturally intimate, so they are called each other by the font. "Do you see when will our king get the position of the prince?"

"Haha, that's not a matter of time? The King of Qin is the legitimate son, and the official family and the queen are in love with each other, and the great concubine has passed away for several years. The King of Qin cannot be the crown prince like this, so what hope does it have? I think the reason why the official family doesn't finalize this matter is because of the queen's face."

Wei Sheng laughed, "Hehe, this is great. The king is so wise and has made great contributions. The prince deserves to come!"

Sheng Xin also laughed, "Of course!"

Zhao Lun did have two tricks, and he found that the contribution of the New World was also attributed to him, so everyone in the Zhao King's party was in harmony with Sheng and Wei. Both of them thought that the prince was Zhao Lun.

In a mansion somewhere in Shuntian Mansion City, at this time, there were also two people watching the hazy rain outside through a glass window that had just been installed.

"I really didn't expect that this Wu family's glass factory is really a bit tricky! If you can make such a flat and translucent glass and continue like this, it won't take long to polish the Qianli Miles mirror with glass, right?"

In the room, an old man in a civilian dress with white face and beardless eyes pointed to the vague glass window and spoke to a middle-aged man beside him who was somewhat similar to him.

This old man is nothing else, but Yue Fei, the prince of Zhongshan County of the Song Dynasty!

And the middle-aged man was his son Yue Yun.

Yue Yun frowned, "Dad, these pieces of glass are not so good glass in the windows in the top-grade palace that the King of Qin asked for Zheng (the son of Wu Meiniang)." He paused, "Do you should give the King of Qin a letter?"

Needless to say, Yue Yun is a figure of the Qin King's party! He is now trying to win over Yue Fei for Zhao Ping! Yue Fei is a big boss. If he wants to support Zhao Ping, it is very likely that Zhao Ping will win.

It is not that he wants Yue Fei to help launch a coup, but that he wants Yue Fei to help speak, everyone knows that Zhao Kai trusts Yue Fei. If he clearly supports Zhao Ping, Zhao Ping's case will be halfway.

But Yue Fei waved his hand and said, "Yun'er, go back and tell the Qin Wangming that the prince must be him! But I am not convenient for me to express my opinion now, and there is no need to express my opinion."
Chapter completed!