Maybe it was really boring during the voyage. Every time Zhao Jia went to study with Agnes, he liked to go with him. It was probably a rare opportunity to encounter such a pretty interesting thing. In addition, Zhao Hao might also want to figure out the relationship between Zhao Jia and Agnes. He might even be thinking that if Zhao Jia, as the prince, insisted on marrying Agnes, just like the eldest brother insisted on making Hua Zhi the crown princess, that would be too interesting. This matter alone would be enough to make his third brother's headache.

However, what disappointed Zhao Hao was that after his observation along the way, he found that Zhao Jia and Agnes really didn't seem to be as he imagined. Although the two often stayed together, they often went to see them "unintentionally" and found that the two were really just studying and did not have any intimate actions between them, which made Zhao Hao a little disappointed.

After nearly two months of sailing, Zhao Jia and his fleet finally returned to Guangzhou again. Zhao Hao did not stop in Guangzhou, but immediately transferred to another fleet and headed north immediately, hoping to arrive at the capital as soon as possible. As for Zhao Jia, he did not have to rush back to the capital, but stayed in Guangzhou for a while, intending to wait until the Naval Academy takes its annual leave before going back.

During this period, Agnes finally saw the prosperity of the Song Dynasty. Although Guangzhou is not as prosperous as Tokyo, and its urban status has been challenged by deep-water ports and other places in recent years, Guangzhou is still firmly sitting on the throne of the number one port on the coast of the Song Dynasty. Although the population in the city has not reached one million, there are still 600,000 to 700,000. Moreover, merchants from all over the country gathered here, making the business here more prosperous.

When Agnes arrived at the port of Guangzhou Port for the first time on a boat, he was immediately stunned by the huge and lively port in front of him. As for the knights such as Fruth who accompanied her here, they were also shocked. Although they had heard Dong Zhong talk about the prosperity of the Song Dynasty before, for them, they could not imagine how these cities looked like. Until now, they saw the prosperity of Guangzhou City with their own eyes, this made a specific concept.

When he first returned to Guangzhou, Zhao Jia happened to have a few days off, so he also had time to take Agnes and his group of people to visit Guangzhou City. As a result, these Europeans were like local buns entering the city, and they were curious about everything they saw. For this reason, Zhao Jia had to spend some time explaining to them.

"Young Master, I have never understood why you, Song Dynasty, can actually treat paper as coins, and who issued these banknotes?" After returning from shopping that day, Zhao Jia sat down and drank a sip of water. Agnes asked curiously again. When he was in Nanyang Port, Zhao Jia asked her about the situation in Europe, but after coming to Guangzhou, it turned out that Agnes asked Zhao Jia about the situation in the Song Dynasty. She seemed to be very curious about everything about Song Dynasty, and she could ask countless questions no matter what she saw.

"Bank notes were issued by our Dasong Bank, and the headquarters of the Dasong Bank is in the capital Tokyo City. In addition, there are branches in various cities, such as Guangzhou. There are several Dasong Bank branches. As for why banknotes can be circulated instead of the original banknotes, this is a very complicated matter. I can't explain it clearly in a few words." Zhao Jia also said helplessly at this time. Originally, he was still very willing to help Agnes relieve some of the questions in his heart, but God knows why she has so many problems. If Zhao Jia had not followed her father since childhood, she had known all kinds of knowledge, she would have been questioned by Agnes long ago.

"It's okay, I have the patience, young master, you can start from the beginning." Agnes said with his eyes lit up at this time. Since she came to the Song Dynasty, she felt like she had entered a brand new world. Everything was so interesting and novel, stimulating her to understand the truth.

Looking at Agnes' desire for knowledge, Zhao Jia couldn't bear to refuse her, so she had to drink a cup of tea to moisten her throat, and then said: "When it comes to issuing banknotes, we must talk about banks. In fact, my bank in Song Dynasty was not already available, but was just established more than ten years ago. The predecessor of the bank was the money shop that issued Jiaozi. As for the emergence of the money shop, it was because of the lack of copper..."

Zhao Jia started with the origin of the money shop and Jiaozi, and then led to the subsequent bank release. When it comes to banks, it is definitely necessary to talk about his father Zhao Yan and cousin Cao Song. However, Zhao Jia did not express his relationship with them. He only talked about His Royal Highness of the Song Dynasty taking advantage of the opportunity to conquer the Western Xia to establish the first bank in the Song Dynasty. After so many years of development, he finally started issuing paper not long ago. Although the paper money is a piece of paper, it can actually go to the bank to exchange metal currencies of equivalent value at any time. With the guarantee of national credit, this makes the banknotes possible for circulation.

Zhao Jia's answer contains a lot of economics knowledge. Agnes has always been conceited and smart, otherwise she would not have understood almost all the mainstream languages ​​in Europe at a young age. However, she could not understand the words she explained to Zhao Jia. This was the first time she encountered this situation, and after hearing it, she had a confused expression on her face.

Seeing Agnes's appearance, Zhao Jia couldn't help but laugh and said, "Okay, you may not understand what I said, but this is normal. You should know that you have no idea about these things, so it is normal that you don't understand them. When you know more about Dasong in the future, you may be able to understand them."

Hearing Zhao Jia's comfort, Agnes was still a little unwilling to give up, but he had to nodded helplessly. It happened that it was already dinner time, and the maid also brought dinner. So Zhao Jia ate and chatted with Agnes. Somehow he talked about Tokyo City. When he heard the beautiful scenery of Tokyo City described by Zhao Jia, Agnes also said intoxicatedly: "Guangzhou is already so prosperous, and I can't imagine what Tokyo City, which is even more prosperous than Guangzhou, looks like."

"Haha, don't think about it if you can't imagine it. You will know when you go to Tokyo City in the future." Zhao Jia also smiled and said.

"Young Master, when will we go to Tokyo?" Agnes asked impatiently at this time. She wanted to fly to Tokyo immediately and see the most prosperous metropolis in the world with her own eyes.

"In another half a month, I haven't been home for almost two years. This time I spent the annual holiday at home for a few more days, so I can take you around to play. Speaking of which, what I miss the most is the delicious food made by the chef at home, especially the spicy chicken she made. Although it is a very ordinary dish, the taste is surprisingly good. No matter what others can't make that kind of taste." When Zhao Jia said this, she couldn't help but squeezed a few bites of rice. He has liked spicy chicken since he was a child. The spicy chicken made by the chef in the palace is the most pleasing to his appetite. Unfortunately, he has been away from home for so long, so he can only eat such delicious food in his dreams.

"Spicy chicken? I knew it was made of chili peppers at first hearing. I really don't know why you like spicy food?" Agnes couldn't help but frown when she heard Zhao Jia's words, because she remembered that when she first ate chili peppers in Nanyang Port, the stimulating smell made her eyes flow out, while Zhao Jia smiled and leaned back and forth. Since then, she has never dared to eat spicy food again.

"Hahaha~" Seeing Agnes's appearance, Zhao Jia also remembered Agnes's appearance when she ate chili peppers before, and couldn't help laughing. This made Agnes glar at him angrily and angrily. After finally Zhao Jia stopped laughing, "Agnes, chili peppers are actually a good thing, especially in the hot weather in Southeast Asia, chili peppers can stimulate people's stomach and intestines and make people feel appetite. And it is definitely not used to eating chili peppers at the beginning. But look at the people of Fruce, they didn't like to eat chili peppers at the beginning, but now more than half of them like to eat chili peppers. And if they don't eat chili peppers, then many delicacies will not be able to taste."

"I'll forget it. Anyway, there are so many delicious foods in the Song Dynasty, so I may not have to eat spicy food." Agnes said with lingering fear. It seems that the painful lesson of eating chili for the first time is not so easy to forget.

The place where Zhao Jia and Agnes lived was the residence of Zhao Yan's family in Guangzhou, which occupied a large area. Although Zhao Yan's family had moved back to the capital, there were still people taking care of it. However, when Zhao Jia came to Guangzhou to study, she did not live here, but lived in her aunt, Princess Shu. Because Princess Shu was worried that he would not know how to take care of him alone, she insisted on moving over. However, this time she came back from Nanyang Port, because there were Agnes and others, Zhao Jia moved back here from Princess Shu.

The next morning, Zhao Jia went to the Naval Academy to report that he started the courses for the last few days of this year. In fact, almost most of the so-called courses in the Naval Academy were internships at sea. As for the courses that needed to be studied in the academy, they had almost finished their studies as early as the first year of their enrollment. Therefore, their courses in the past few days were mainly to summarize their experiences and experiences of going overseas, and to participate in a final assessment so that the college could have an understanding of the students' learning situation.

At the same time, in the Tokyo Yue Palace, thousands of miles away, Zhao Yan had just received a letter from Nanyang. The person who came from was the manager Lu from Nanyang Port. Originally, this was just an ordinary letter reporting on his family's business, but when he read the contents in the letter, he couldn't help but be stunned for a while.

"Why are you stunned? Is something wrong in Nanyang?" At this time, Cao Ying, who was calculating the accounts next to him, smiled and said, business matters like this were originally managed by Cao Ying. If it weren't for the letter that Zhao Yan had asked him to open it, Cao Ying would have opened it long ago.

Hearing Cao Ying's words, Zhao Yan woke up from daze, then turned his head to look at his wife and said, "Madam, our son has grown up, I guess you will be grandmother in a short time."

"Ba~" Cao Ying's hand trembled when he heard this, and the beads on the abacus were suddenly disrupted. To be continued.
Chapter completed!