"I was originally from the North. I heard that Your Majesty was going to immigrate to the north, so I wanted to go home and have a look. Maybe I can help you." Kong Pei had sufficient reasons. His hometown is on the Shandong Peninsula. According to his age, he might miss his hometown a little.

"Is this what your aunt said? Jinhe is selling it quickly, why are you talking to his mother about everything? Didn't your aunt say you want to come with you?" Bo Jiao also knew about being the king of North America. Hong Tao didn't have to think about it, just knowing who was so silly. When he thought of the girl standing on the deck and smiling at him, he really couldn't let it go.

"My aunt has nothing to do except scold you all day long. Even if she wants to follow me, she can't open her mouth. Otherwise, you'd better go back and see her and just take her over. It's useless to persuade others. My aunt is very stubborn." When she mentioned Bozhu, Bojiao didn't know whether to tell their Bo family or to this uncle.

"I can't go back, and my identity is not allowed, conditions are not allowed, and time is not allowed. Wait a minute, and after I finish this period, let Wen Nan run for me to see if I can convince your aunt and let her stay here for a while. If you have nothing to do, you can also help me and your aunt to relax. Just say that I live in the palace now, and she can live in the Empress Dowager's palace when she comes, hehe." Hong Tao sighed, it's easy to say, go back! How to go back? In what name is it? He is now the prime minister of the Song Empire, so he can't say that he can disguise himself and sneak back secretly. Even if he wants to slip back, it won't work. The barcode on his neck will reveal his identity in minutes.

"Can I stay in the emperor's palace for a night?" Bo Jiao's eyes lit up when he heard about living in the palace. Although he had been the prime minister of the empire, the Song Dynasty Palace was still a very sacred place in his mind. This is the difference between his generation and the pure second generation of the Jinhe Empire. The difference in thinking will never be changed in his life.

"Live, you must live! Not only do you have to live, but you also have to have a meal with the emperor! Let's go, old Confucius, have you arranged your affairs here? After the arrangements, you will first meet the Emperor of the Song Dynasty and chat with him. He is also very pitiful. He keeps me in the palace all day long and it is difficult to see outsiders. You are here and have a meal with him, which can be considered as a relief for him." Emperor Lizong's family is already an ordinary person in Hong Tao's eyes, but they have to hold on to the position of emperor during this period. He has also been an emperor and can understand this extremely depressed feeling. Others cannot meet others indiscriminately, Bo Jiao and Kong Pei are fine.

"You are still great. The emperor of a country will become a child when he comes to you. If he says he is locked up, he will be locked up. But let's not go to the palace first. Let's take a look at the gift Kong Pei brings to you first. It's right behind it. It will arrive in more than half an hour." Bo Jiao admired his uncle to death. Since he was a child, he followed his uncle to fight in the east and defeated countless chiefs, tribal leaders, little kings, etc., which is not a problem at all, but he has never seen a real emperor of a great country. However, he didn't care about chatting with the Emperor of the Song Dynasty for the time being. He raised his hand and pointed to the river in the east, indicating that there was a ship behind him.

Bo Jiao said it very accurately. A large bunch of salmon-class armed cargo ships soon appeared in sight. When they slowly approached the dock, they were not cargo or people coming down from the ship, but war horses one by one. Six ships were loaded with war horses, more than four hundred. After the cargo ship carrying horses left the shore, seven or eight cargo ships docked one by one, and teams of Imperial Army began to walk off the ship along the springboard, lined up on the dock while descending, and soon piled up the dock.

"Okay, you two are here to carry out a beheading operation on me! Are you afraid that I will throw you two to death directly?" Hong Tao looked at so many imperial troops and drooled, and hated that he was not his.

"Hehehe, this is a military aid specially provided by the Empire. Most of the four thousand expeditionary forces came from the empire and Kalamba Port, among which more than 300 grassroots officers were Han people from the northern region. You may not know that after Yi Yi and your agreement was handed over to the parliament, all the Han members from the northern region could not sit still. No one did not vote for it. They all hoped that you could build their hometown into the Jinhe Empire. In this way, although they left their hometown, how many elders were in their hometown?

It can be better. After the news came out of the parliament, the Han people from northern China and the immigrants from the Song Dynasty ran to the door of the parliament to send their children over and let their children recover their hometowns for them. The Imperial Parliament finally decided to draw Han officers from all over the country to form an expeditionary force, which was commanded by me to cooperate with you to implement the new policy north of the Yangtze River, which can also give the Han people in the empire a chance to go back to their hometowns to see them." Kong Pei was very satisfied with Hong Tao's reaction, and it was not easy to surprise the old emperor.

"It's okay to send people here, but there are no serious cities in the north, and the population is not large. I can't provide for the support. There are thousands of people eating and drinking." Deep worries appeared on Hong Tao's face.

"Uncle, don't cry with us anymore. I told me before Jinhe left, saying that if you cry with poverty, send these troops back so as not to make things difficult for you." Bo Jiao was not deceived by Hong Tao's appearance. Many tricks were too familiar with, no matter how realistic Hong Tao did, they had lost their effect.

"Little bastard! I'll plot against him with outsiders! Let's do it, I'll squeeze out a meal every day." This time, Hong Tao was too tough, and lacking people in his hands was his biggest shortcoming. With these four thousand imperial troops, it's much more cost-effective than taking the imperial guards of the Song Dynasty to the north with the worry. At least these troops wouldn't think about a mutiny one day, picking their heads away, and eating more.

"Your Majesty, don't worry about supply issues. The Royal Navy Northern Fleet has begun to settle in Dengzhou Port. I estimate that in another month, the first batch of Northern Councillors will go north to Dengzhou with condolence supplies, followed by those imperial residents who want to go back to their hometowns. Before I came, they had already started donating money and materials, all to help you govern the north, and the number will definitely surprise you. I didn't notice that the residents of the Empire are so rich before, and this time I'm open-minded." Kong Pei didn't plot against Hong Tao, and he was not worried about supplies at all, because he knew that even if Hong Tao didn't provide a grain of food, these more than 4,000 people would not be hungry.

"I really forgot about this matter and made a mistake. Such a good opportunity was not used." After hearing Kong Pei's words, Hong Tao slapped his thigh firmly. It was so failed! How could he forget about the second largest ethnic group in the Jinhe Empire, and he didn't even calculate it at all. It seems that he has really made no progress in national management over the years. Apart from the memory and experience in his mind, he has nothing outstanding. If Yi Yi hadn't blocked this hole for him, he would have lost a very great help in vain.

Bo Jiao and Kong Pei only lived in the palace for four days before following Hong Tao from Lin'an City to the north. This time, Hong Tao was free and did not huddle on the boat and walked on the sea. Instead, he took more than 2,000 people on horseback and headed north along the canal.

The inland area of ​​the Song Dynasty was too large, so he could not just walk along the seaside, so he could not see anything. Moreover, Bo Jiao and Kong Pei also took another task, which was to personally go to the inland area north of the Yangtze River to see, and then return the scenes they saw with their own eyes to the imperial government. This is the main basis for the Jinhe Empire government to correctly judge the local situation, so that it can determine what kind of support should be given to Hong Tao.

Why do you have to follow the canal? The reason is very simple. The army's logistics supplies must be transported from the canal by boat, which can save a lot of transportation troubles, and there is no need to mobilize troops to recruit people. Moreover, Hong Tao did not believe that the Song army and local governments at this time. Let them be responsible for their own logistics. It would be better to let the weasels be responsible for keeping the door of the chicken coop. The strong winds and waves have been trampled, so you must not fall into such small things.

After passing Xiuzhou and Pingjiang Prefecture, heading north along the east bank of Taihu Lake, crossing the Yangtze River to Yangzhou, and walking along the road, Hong Tao, Bojiao, and Kong Pei were optimistic about the future development trend of the Song Dynasty. Whether it is towns or villages, the people's lives are still abundant, and many large-scale workshop consortiums have emerged, mainly engaged in the textile industry. If we follow the current state, Hong Tao can easily guide these primary handicrafts to larger-scale factories. Funds, technology, and sales are not problems, and the government can help solve them.

When he was in a good mood, Hong Tao began to relax. When he walked forward, he would often take his guards away from the main force and go to nearby villages and towns to take a walk in the field, and grasp the first-hand information more effectively and prepare to make the preliminary plan.

But before he could figure out how to start this plan and how to develop it, he temporarily put down this thing that had not started. Because the more he walked north, the harder the road was, or the fewer roads were, and even dirt roads were difficult to find, and rivers and swamps were more and more. Fortunately, these two thousand imperial troops were all cavalry and more reliable maps for guidance. If you only walk on two legs, you won’t be able to walk far a day.

It would be fine if the road was difficult to walk, but it was getting more and more desolate along the way. Often, I could not see a village or town for most of the day. At most, I saw a few fishing boats in nearby lakes. But those fishermen didn't listen to the hello. They obviously saw the army under the banner of the imperial court, but they couldn't come, but instead hid everywhere and did not show up at all.

To be continued.
Chapter completed!