Zhao Yan and Zhao Xin and his son arrived at Dading Prefecture in a carriage, and then transferred from here to the train and headed to Tokyo. The Song Dynasty is carrying out a national railway network project, mainly using Tokyo as a transportation hub to pave railways to important areas across the country. Among them, the railway from Tokyo to Liaodong has been built to Dading Prefecture, and is preparing to build the section from Dading Prefecture to Linhuang Prefecture. Finally, this railway will reach Huanglong Prefecture, thereby firmly controlling the entire Liaodong.

After years of development, although the speed of trains is not much faster than horses, the advantage is that they can move forward day and night, so the speed is naturally much faster than that of carriages. A few days later, Zhao Yan and others finally arrived at the ferry on the north bank of the Yellow River. However, when they arrived here, they had to get off the train, because bridges could not be built on the two natural chasms of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. At least the current technology of the Song Dynasty could not be achieved. In this way, the train naturally could not pass, so they could only build train stations on both sides of the river, and then use special steam boats to transport people and goods on the train.

After crossing the Yellow River, Zhao Yan and the others took the train to the capital again. It was already early autumn, and it was already a little chilling in Liaodong, but there was still a storm of autumn tigers near Kaifeng. Zhao Yan had to take off his thick clothes and change into thin summer clothes in the car. After the train arrived in the capital, Zhao Yan immediately took Zhao Xin to the palace to meet Zhao Xu.

"Uncle San, the Jin Kingdom has finally been destroyed, and you finally don't have to worry about the matter in the north!" Zhao Xu came to the palace gate to greet him in person when he heard that Zhao Yan was about to come back. As soon as he saw Zhao Yan, he immediately shouted excitedly.

"Yes, this trip was finally not in vain. I finally fulfilled my wish for many years. On this journey back, I felt that sleeping was sweeter than usual!" Zhao Yan also smiled at this time, eliminating the hidden danger of Jin Kingdom. He also felt relaxed. He said that sleeping was relatively stable and there was no exaggeration.

Zhao Xu laughed when he heard this, and then pulled Zhao Xin and laughed: "Brother Xin. You are really making a big splash. This time you can successfully destroy the Jin Kingdom. You have made the first contribution!"

"Hehe, I don't care about credit or something. Your Majesty, you just need to agree to my small request." Zhao Jia said with a smile at this time. Although he was Zhao Xu's cousin, he did not dare to call Zhao Xu's cousin directly in such an open situation. After all, the etiquette of the monarch and his subjects must be abide by.

"Brother Xin, you don't want me to agree to send you to the enemy country to provoke trouble, but I can't make the decision. At least I have to agree with Uncle San!" Zhao Xu is one of the people who know Zhao Xin the best, and he guessed what his request was at once.

"Don't worry, I have convinced my father on the way. Now you only need your consent and then order the Imperial City Department to cooperate with me with all your strength!" Zhao Xin said confidently.

Zhao Xu also looked at Zhao Yan in surprise when he heard this, and then Zhao Yan nodded and said, "I do agree with this matter, but this is not a place to speak. Let's go to Chuigong Hall to discuss in detail!"

At that moment, Zhao Yan and the other two came to the palace together. Because there were no outsiders, Zhao Xu directly asked Zhao Yan and Zhao Xin to sit down. Then he asked Zhao Yan impatiently: "Uncle San, aren't you opposed Brother Xin running around? Why did you suddenly agree this time?"

"Don't you know that Brother Xin is shameless? I shouldn't have agreed to him to enter the Imperial City Division at the beginning, but now his face is thicker and he is pestering me with a terrible face. I can't agree!" Zhao Yan deliberately damaged Zhao Xin at this time, but his words were half true and half false. The reason why he agreed to Zhao Xin to deal with this matter himself was that in addition to Zhao Xin's own request, he also felt that letting Zhao Xin harm the other party was also considered as venting his anger on his behalf, as his father.

"Uncle San, where are Brother Xin going?" Zhao Xu asked impatiently when he heard this. It was said that there were no strong enemies around the Song Dynasty. The Seerzhu Turks in the west were strong enough, but they were too far from the Song Dynasty. Moreover, the skin color of the people was different, so it was obviously inappropriate for Zhao Xin to go there.

"Wa Kingdom! My father agreed to go to Japan!" Zhao Xin was excited and spoke first. Although Japan was not a very powerful country for the Song Dynasty, and because they were island countries, it did not have any threat to the Song Dynasty, it was still a complete country after all. Compared with Goryeo, Dali was almost the same. Therefore, if it could turn the Japanese state upside down with one force, it would be a great achievement.

"Water, what's the use of such a poor island country?" Zhao Xu couldn't help but say something strange when he heard this. He didn't pay much attention to Japan. He only knew that part of the sea trade in the Song Dynasty was trading in the north, and the main targets of the northern transaction were Goryeo and Japan. However, the Japanese people were poor and the land was small, and the transaction volume was still not rising. On the contrary, Goryeo developed very quickly, and the transaction volume with the Song Dynasty increased year by year, and now it has reached several times that of Japan. Therefore, in Zhao Xu's heart, Japan is just a poor country with no economic value.

"Water is a little poor, but it is not without any value. It's just that the Japanese are guarding the Baoshan Mountain without knowing it..." Zhao Yan said as he talked about his preparation for the development of the eastern route. The current he mentioned directly to the Americas from Japan is actually a link in the North Pacific warm current known as the Black Tide in later generations. After the ship enters this warm current, as long as it does not encounter too bad natural disasters, it can generally reach the Americas safely. The starting point of this current is just on the coast of Japan.

After listening to Zhao Yan's analysis above, Zhao Xu nodded in agreement and said, "So that's it. Apart from the Antarctica, which is completely covered with ice and snow, only North and South America are still not yet arrived by our Song Dynasty fleet. The eldest brother came back from the last time he wrote a letter and said that he would go directly to America from Europe. But now it seems that we may arrive in America a little earlier than the eldest brother."

"What, Jia'er actually wants to go directly to America from Europe?" Zhao Yan shouted when she heard this, and an angry expression appeared on her face, because he and Zhao Jia often wrote letters, but they had never heard him mention this. It was obvious that Zhao Jia was deliberately hiding it from him.

"Uh? This..." Zhao Xu also secretly called out bad when he saw Zhao Yan's angry look, because he suddenly remembered that Zhao Jia told him not to tell Uncle San about this when he was in the letter, but he was almost talking about it just now. Seeing Uncle San's angry look, I'm afraid that the eldest brother would suffer. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!