"That's Li Yu's ship." Pan Lian'er said.

Li Yu and his party were watching the magnificent scenery of Hezhou. Song Jiu and Pan Lian'er stood at the door of the workshop and were watching them. Yuping did not come back, and the couple cherished this hard-earned fate even more. Wherever Song Jiu went, Pan Lian'er would go.

The copper smelting supervision was established with a very small scale. It was only expanded in the original experimental site and became the so-called production. However, no one thought that Song Jiu was falsely reporting that not only the sugar scrubber, but also the steel scrubber are still undergoing renovation.

Although Song Jiu handed it over to the court and did not interfere much, sometimes there were some minor problems, either Song Jiu went to take a look, or students continued to observe and put forward their own ideas for Song Jiu's reference, so they made some minor improvements from time to time, but they all improved first, then observed, and then promoted. The improvement was not large, and the wind power always became a serious constraint. The craftsmen said that improvement was only called improvement, which was a hundred and eight thousand miles away from improvement.

How long has the steel supervision been?

Now the research is not high. Once it is promoted to the national copper surveillance and overturned, the losses will be heavy. Therefore, everyone understands Song Jiu's cautious attitude. Some conscientious officials are very eagerly looking forward to it. The Northern Army did not have large copper pits before, but only Zi Yi was found after obtaining Bashu. Most of the copper pits in the country were in the Southern Tang and Wuyue, such as Rao, Chu, Jian, Ying, Xin, Ting, Zhang and other places. However, when Song Jiu asked the officials to send ore, he luckily discovered a medium-sized copper pit in Guozhou.

This led to the very pitiful copper production of the Song Dynasty. Now that the Southern Tang Dynasty has been taken down, most of the copper pits belong to the Song Dynasty, and gunpowder can be mined in large quantities, and the output will inevitably surge like iron ore. Will copper smelting technology solve the money shortage problem of the Song Dynasty?

They were expecting, but Song Jiu was preparing for the future and experimenting with copper alloy technology in the workshop, that is, using copper, lead and tin to smelter alloys, and using it to make copper coins. Other research is also accelerating, which is to prepare for being an official. It would be too easy for him to be an official, even if Zhao Da didn't have any trouble, he could still be the best minister sooner or later, and at least he could get a deputy minister.

When they heard that Li Yu's ship arrived, the couple also walked out to see it curiously.

There are many people watching the fun on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Li Yu would not notice them, but they saw Li Yu and his two concubines. Pan Lian'er said: "This emperor is not doing a good job, but the two concubines are so beautiful."

Actually, it was still a little far away, and I couldn't see clearly, so I could only see two slim shadows. My clothes were fluttering, and I looked like a fairy, probably very beautiful. Song Jiu shook his head: "I'm afraid it's not a good thing."

“Why?”

Song Jiu won't say much. It may not be true, like Qian Chu, Liu Qing, and Zhou Baoquan. They all have bad luck and "died young and young". That was the future. Before, Meng Chang died, Chai Zongxun died. Gao Jichong died the second year after Chai Zongxun died. He was only thirty years old. He heard that guarding Xuzhou was quite virtuous. However, he died young and was asked to stay and buried in the local area because of gratitude. Zhao Kuangyin refused, and then he was buried in a mysterious way. There was also Chen Hongjin, but it was a great Fujian country, so that all the fictional novels had not been mentioned, so Song Jiu didn't know what his fate was.

To this day, Song Jiu still doubts whether Zhao Kuangyin attacked Meng Chang for Mrs. Huarui.

If so, Mrs. Huarui will have another ending.

He also doubted whether Zhao Kuangyi took action because of the little Zhou Hou.

The fleet crossed the Baiyu Bridge in a mighty manner and couldn't see it. Song Jiu said, "Let's go back."

Pan Lian'er still looked on tiptoe, and Song Jiu said, "Don't look at it, the legendary Xu family's national beauty is so beautiful. In fact, it's not as good as you."

"Just say good things." Pan Lian'er said angrily, but there was a smile on the corner of her mouth. This was really good things. Even with Song Jiu's eyes, Mrs. Huarui was just thirty when she first came to the Song Dynasty. Her charm at that time was no less than Pan Lian'er. She was only slightly weaker after she was almost in full swing.

On the same day, Li Yu entered Beijing and moved into the luxurious mansion that Zhao Kuangyin had built early, but Song Jiu invited three guests. At the end of last year, the three envoys who came to Beijing to celebrate the Song Dynasty's Zhengdan Festival, Yelu Wuzheng, Xiao Huli Kingdom, and Chen Yanzheng.

When the three messengers were ordered, they were also high-ranking officials of the Khitan, but they were somewhat stunned when they looked at the magnificence of Shundian.

Song Jiu said: "These are three boxes of ambergris shipped from the food. They are my little gift. I don't respect you. I hope the three of you will accept it."

The first person to discover this thing was the Han Dynasty fishermen. They caught some gray-white wax-shaped drifts in the sea, which were extremely fishy and smelly, so they discarded them. Later, who discovered a mystery and found that although the damp objects were smelly, they were very fragrant when they were dry, and when they were lit, they were even more fragrant. So it was said that this was the saliva spit out by dragons in the sea, so they were named Ambergris.

Later, the sea surface in China became less and less, and somehow it spread to Dashi. However, there were very few things on Dashi. In fact, there should be many. After all, people had not yet hunted whales on a large scale at this time, and there were still many sperm whales living in the sea.

It is just because of the constraints of productivity and ship capacity that it is hard to get. I can't get a lot from Dashi in a year, and I can often only export a few hundred taels a year to China. Therefore, this thing is extremely expensive. If you spend 20 yuan in Guangzhou, you can buy twenty acres of fertile land at this time! The Khitan side is even more expensive.

There were not many in the three small boxes, only about ten or two, but the three of them were all people who knew the goods and kept saying thank you.

Before the food and food came up, Song Jiu began to talk about the serious matter: "I have a concubine who went to Youzhou to visit my biological father. I never thought that she was proficient in the learning of objects and objects. Later, I found out that it was a misunderstanding, so I brought me a letter to me through her father, and wanted to exchange it with gunpowder technology. It seemed that the queen of your country misunderstood the role of gunpowder. It was not very useful in military terms. My dynasty had never used it at all in the battle against the Southern Tang Dynasty. The main purpose was to mine. However, the mining technology was complex, and your country was even more backward than our dynasty. Once you use gunpowder to mine, the accident rate was higher. Even if it was not high, the country strictly prohibited it, I dare not hand it over to your country. It was just a concubine. If I wanted to learn arithmetic and learning of objects, I had books here, which were mostly written by students from academy and me, which were easy to understand."

Song Jiu took out the academy textbook and said, but this was a publicly circulated textbook. Without Song Jiu, the Khitan could get it if he had the will. Song Jiu continued: "Although she is my concubine, she is also a wife in my heart. We are deeply in love with each other. She also raised a son and a daughter for me. Now that the two countries are in harmony, the queen should be a beauty of humanity. If the queen of your country is willing to send her back to our court, I hereby promise to provide your country with a hundred thousand scoops of money."

The offer is 100,000 yuan. As long as Xiao Yanyan agrees, she will definitely increase the price, and she can also add it. Song Jiu has prepared to be slaughtered. Moreover, Song Jiu has already given 100,000 yuan to the Yu family before. This is another way for Song Jiu to spend money. Even if it is placed in the Song Dynasty, it is not a small number, let alone a Khitan.

Yelu Wuzheng said, "Song Jiulang. No need to say, the emperor of your country has mentioned this to us at the banquet. Don't worry, we will definitely bring the words to my Majesty and the Queen."

Song Jiu was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that Zhao Kuangyin would fulfill his promise so quickly. This was probably the thing that Zhao Kuangyin did the most to thank him. That was the best, but in two-pronged approach, Yuping should be able to be sent back. He clapped his hands again. A supervisor walked in, took out three small bottles and said, "That's the best of all three distinguished guests."

The three bottles contained golden melon seeds, but they were not as big as Qian Chu's bottle. Each bottle contained five hundred taels of gold, which was a more expensive gift than just now.

The three messengers were overjoyed and beat their chests and stamped their feet to make a promise.

Then Song Jiu happily talked with them. At least once the Northern Song Dynasty, the one with the best reputation was not the Song people, nor the capricious Xixia people, but the Khitan people.

After drinking, Song Jiu came out.

Qingyi asked, "Jiulang, how?"

"They agreed, and His Majesty also told me."

"Your Majesty has made a kind heart this time?" Qingyi sneered.

"Are you from Song or from Tang?"

"Jiulang..." Qingyi didn't know how to answer.

"But whether it is the Song people or the Southern Tang people, let them live a good life if they have the ability."

This is the problem of cognitive sense.

There was loyalty in ancient times, but this loyalty not only refers to loyalty to the country, but also loyalty to the master family. Most of the time, the country is not a country, but a country. Just like the Song Dynasty, it can be said that it is China, but it can also be said that it is a country of the Zhao family, not a country of all Chinese people. It is precisely because of this special place that despite the long history of Chinese civilization, it has not formed the loyalty like the Jews.

The luck is like the Southern Han Dynasty, and generations of national lords are tyrannical to the people, so the Song army is invincible when they come. However, if the Song army does not do well, then the mentality of the local people will have serious problems. For example, if a poll is conducted in Bashu, at least 60% of the people still think they are Shu people, not Song people.

Qingyi also held this mentality and was wronged. Later, Song Jiu was treated a little unfairly, so he did not recognize the Song Dynasty. Now Song Jiu's Hezhou stock market was handed over to the court, and the court sent officials to come over. Song Jiu asked Qingyi to assist him. Qingyi was not very enthusiastic and wanted to refuse many times. Song Jiu then persuaded him obscurely.

...

Zhao Kuangyin met with the emperor and ministers of the Southern Tang Dynasty in Qianyuan Hall.

Seeing Xu Xuan, he suddenly became furious and shouted: "Why didn't you persuade Li Yu to return to the court early!"

The Southern Tang Dynasty took it, but it took a long time to delay it and spent a lot of money. It was precisely because of Li Yu's stubborn resistance that even if Jinling took it, there were still some rebellious troops everywhere. After Li Yu captured it alive, he asked him to write letters to surrender these rebels. However, some areas were still very troublesome.

If Li Yu had voluntarily opened the city gate and surrendered, instead of the Song army attacking in, the situation would have been better.

Xu Xuan said: "I am a minister of Jiangnan. If the country is destroyed, the crime should be killed, and I should not ask about anything else."

Inscribe your will with death.

Zhao Kuangyin silently said, "A loyal minister, I am just doing my duty as Li."

Give him a seat.

He also asked Zhang Wei: "You teach Li Yu not to surrender, and even today."

He also took out a letter from Zhang Shi personally summoning the reinforcements to him.

Zhang Shi was very cunning. After seeing Xu Xuan's result, he boldly said: "What the ministers wrote about the dog barking is not their master, but each one is their master. If they can die, they are divided into ministers."

Zhao Kuangyin was originally going to kill him, but he heard this and said, "You are so brave. I will not blame you. Now I will serve me, and I will not be loyal to you."

He glanced at the ministers behind Li Yu. In addition to Xu Xuan and Zhang Ju, there were some ministers with literary talent in Jiangnan, so he said: "You are not talented, but those who are talented are not you and you."

He whispered and asked the eunuch to call Song Jiu from the hip hall. Zhao Kuangyin pointed at Song Jiu and said, "In terms of talent, Song Qingfang is a knowledgeable person."

Song Jiu was confused.

Zhao Kuangyin said: "Song Jiu, I was appointed as the deputy envoy of the Third Division and the Young Supervisor of the Secretariat, why did I refuse it?"

Song Jiu was even more confused, but had to answer: "Your Majesty, because of the shortage of money, the imperial edict was ordered not to cross the river. This is indeed a national crisis. And the material nature is my strength, and others are not as good as it in a short time. There are many people who can be competent for the deputy envoy of the Three Divisions, but not many people who can be competent for the research on copper smelting. People's energy is limited, and they cannot be used for it. Therefore, I am temporarily grateful to you for your official position and resolve the money crisis first. Therefore, I thank you, I hope Your Majesty will forgive you."

Zhao Kuangyin said: "You have made merits, but why are you guilty?"

He looked at Zhang Ju and said, "What is knowledge? What is the use of the country and the people? How can they talk about knowledge? Like Li Yu, he is just good at writing a few small orders, and his fragrance is low. He can reach this one. He looks at the sword while drunk with a lamp and dreams of blowing the horns and camps. He is divided into 800 miles under his command, and his fifty strings are turned over the sound of the outer gate. The soldiers on the battlefield are drawn. The horses are made of fast, and the bow is as fast as the thunder and strings are shocked. He will clear the affairs of the king and win the reputation of his life and his life. Poor white happens."

Li Yu lowered his head. Not only Zhao Kuangyin was ashamed at this time, but also a bigger shame, and he was named a disobedience. Zhang Shi, Xu Xuan and others disagreed. Is Xiao Ling? It is a sing and must be graceful. Is this a sing? How to sing?

But thinking that Zhao Kuangyin was born in a military force, it was normal to like it, and he didn't dare to distinguish it. He also had to admit that Song Jiu had achieved the ultimate in the "small path" knowledge.

Zhao Kuangyin continued: "Why didn't Song Qing do it?"

"Parallel style poetry is not the director of a humble minister, and he also studies material science. Where can I do the ability to do it?"

Zhao Kuangyin was very satisfied with Song Jiu's answer: "You have made merits, I will remember them in my heart, you can go down."

He continued to scan the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Tang Dynasty and said, "There are many talented people among the ministers. I hope you are loyal to me, and I also hope you use your knowledge to the country and the people, rather than bewitching the kings in greed for pleasure and even ruining the country."
Chapter completed!