"In this case, some Japanese nobles surrendered. Our Song Dynasty was benevolent and righteous. They could not even kill them even if they surrendered. But I think it was not appropriate to let our Song Dynasty treasury pay for money to support us. So, Qu Yue was fighting, giving them weapons, rations, money, and pensions, and asking them to recruit soldiers themselves. How to do it in detail if he exchanged military merits for territory."
Wei Niu's eyes lit up: "Please tell me."
"No, you can do it. You are now the governor of the Japanese island to fight against Qu Yue, you are the governor..." Liu An said this and looked at Kou Zhun. Kou Zhun said, "He is the governor of the Privy Council and is the sixth rank."
"Xie Kou Gong, Xie Anping Hou." Compared with the weak he was just now, Wei Niu was energetic.
He likes this life.
I like that sentence more, you can do it.
Wei Niu's style of doing things was placed in the Song Dynasty, and his head was probably cut off dozens of times, but on the Japanese island, Kou Zhun said that he admired this person very much.
Sometimes, the superiors need several people to do things.
After Wei Niu left, Liu An said to Kou Zhun: "Ku Gong, I'm leaving."
"What are you doing?"
"Mingzhou."
"Mingzhou?"
After asking back, Kou Zhun asked again: "Come on preparation for the battle against Japan?"
Liu An shook his head: "No, this time, for the sake of people's livelihood, the Song Dynasty lacked cows. Most of the cows sold to us by the Khitans were very poor. The horses in Xizhou were not suitable for plowing horses, so I wanted to find something that could replace cows and horses."
Kou Zhun nodded slightly: "The idea is good. But Mingzhou."
Kou Zhun had a feeling that Mingzhou was no longer the Mingzhou of the Song Dynasty. Since Mingzhou was under the control of the Mingzhou Navy, there has been no civil servants in Mingzhou for a year.
The gunboats are produced in Mingzhou, so there must be copper and steel yards in Mingzhou.
"Liu An, the steel workshop in Mingzhou has not been registered with the Ministry of Industry."
"I am going to go to Mingzhou. The steel house is not in Mingzhou, but in Penglai."
Kou Zhun was a little confused: "It's an outer island, it's a deserted area."
"That's right, but it's easy to defend. The Mingzhou navy controls the surrounding water surface, so there is almost no contact with the outside world. Moreover, the craftsmen's residential area is not in Penglai, but on the surrounding islands, they work on and off the boat every day, and there are special people to check on and off the boat. No outsider is allowed to approach the workshop area."
"gunboat?"
"Not only, there is another thing. It was originally made in Xianping County, but the Xianping place is too small. In addition, there are so many people in Xianping, my steel workshop was targeted by the Ministry of Industry."
Kou Zhun shook his head: "The Ministry of Works dares not do anything to you."
"The Ministry of Works is not asking me for trouble, but hopes to get several new steel formulas. These use more tools, farm tools, and the latest automotive shock absorbing steel plates. But I don't want to care. The money is enough, just give me some money, but I don't like being stared at, so I moved several important workshops to Mingzhou."
"I understand, you go."
Liu An said again: "Ku Gong, you must not be soft-hearted towards the Japanese. I believe that the books I have read were a conspiracy to send the Tang envoys back then. When the Japanese saw the power of the Great Sui Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, they went to the Tang Dynasty to learn a lot. One day they found that they had learned all, and this led to the Battle of Baijiangkou."
"Well, I won't ask the reason this time. I'll listen to you. Except for a few specific families in the Japanese island, there will be no nobles left alive. But we can't go too far, at least leave the Japanese in the ancestral hall and the place where the bones are buried."
Kou Zhun's words are the truth. If there is a possibility that the soldiers of the Song Dynasty died in battle outside, even if there is only one bone, I hope that I can go back to my hometown for burial.
So Kou Zhun considered leaving a place to bury his bones for the Japanese.
Liu An didn't say anything else, the matter on the Japanese island was enough for him.
The next step is to get the wealth of the Japanese capital to do big things. There are many people who are staring at this wealth, and Liu An is confident that he will take some of it secretly.
Liu An said he wanted to leave and was about to leave that day.
Kou Zhun found Zhang Qixian: "An Ge'er is going to Mingzhou, you won't go to see him off."
"What are you sending him to? If you have the skills to study Yinshan here, I think it can be improved and more effective to dig more silver. It is not impossible to hollow out the Yinshan within ten years." Zhang Qixian made up his mind not to leave a piece of silver for the Liao Kingdom.
Liu An left and took Asu Xiu with him.
The Yinshan incident was given to the Asu family a small piece, but Liu An didn't want Asu Xiu to interfere in the Yinshan incident, so he asked Liu An to persuade Asu Xiu to sell the silver mining rights or rent it out, and just check the cash every year.
After Liu An left, he did not go to Asu Mountain again, but went straight to Mingzhou.
When Liu An's ship was about to arrive in Mingzhou, he met the Song Navy who was heading south on the sea.
"Master, look at the banner of Wuqing Port."
"Let's go up and send a banner to let them merge into my fleet." Liu An was a little confused. Why did the ships in Wuqing Port go south in an established manner, and there was no transfer order to let the fleet in Wuqing Port go south.
Soon, the fleet was united.
Wuqing Port's flagship came over.
"Fourth uncle, there is no order to transfer and the Privy Council, the generals guarding the border are not allowed to leave the city. This is a serious crime of being reduced to the title." Liu An greeted with a smile.
The person who came was Cao Wei. Cao Wei jumped onto Liu An's boat and patted Liu An gently: "If you have military affairs, I report to the Hebei East Road Transportation Envoy and escort a batch of important materials to Hangzhou. Because it is too expensive, I personally escort it."
"What supplies?"
Cao Wei looked around and everyone was sensible and retreated far away.
Even so, Cao Wei was not relieved and pulled Liu An to the bow of the ship. No one was allowed two feet behind him. Then he said, "Golden."
"How many gold? Where did it come from?" Liu An immediately asked three questions when he heard Jin.
Cao Wei said: "Even the sailors on the boat don't know that it's gold. They only know that the materials transported this time are very important, but they don't know that it's gold."
"Gold, how many of them are there?" Liu An asked again.
Cao Wei replied: "It's rough gold, with 6,000 kilograms."
"Six thousand kilograms, how thick is the gold?" Liu An was frightened by this number.
Cao Wei replied: "I don't have a place to alchemy, and I dare not refine it even if I have it. I tried it with a small furnace and I could produce one pound of red gold."
Red gold is already a very high purity gold. The alchemy technique of the Song Dynasty can reach up to about 95% of the red gold, but in order not to waste, most of the refined lapis is 70% purity.
But the amount of 6,000 pounds is really scary.
Cao Wei lowered his voice: "These golds are not from the right origin, but they are not robbed or stolen. According to the alliance, Song and Liao border markets were opened, and all goods must be reported and taxes were calculated. Most of these golds came from the nobles of the Bohai Sea, and a small half came from the tribes in the north of the Jurchens. The items traded were armor."
"First?"
Chapter completed!