The apricot blossoms in February are coming.

In a blink of an eye, Zhao Huan has been traveling back for four years.

In the past four years, when I think back on the things he did, I feel shocked.

The willow trees on both sides of the wide New Street in Tokyo are still sprouting, and merchants coming from all directions are carrying slow-track cargo.

Occasionally, you can also see exotic people of different skin colors.

The Privy Council had just sent the Song army soldiers who died in the Battle of Song and Xia to the Martyrs' Temple, and all prefectures held mourning ceremonies.

That night, the three officials envoys Zhou Dynasty could not wait to enter the palace and report on its current financial situation.

The money accumulated from the first year of Jingkang to the present has basically been lost in this battle.

The emperor mobilized an army of 600,000. Including the logistics, the victims were actually involved in more than one million people.

Thirty million trump cards were distributed just for the replenishment of casualties.

In addition, due to Cao Sheng’s rebellion, there were 350,000 Song troops who lost their lives!

The number of wounded people is as high as 300,000!

Huanqing Road in the northwest was defeated, and the siege built in the Song Dynasty for decades was almost destroyed.

The ice surface of Wuding River was crushed by corpses. It took a full five days to mobilize 30,000 civilians just to transport the bodies of the soldiers who died in battle to the mountains for collective cremation.

These numbers are absolutely confidential. If the Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom knew that the Song Dynasty suffered such heavy losses this time, they would definitely go south regardless of everything.

Seeing such a long report, Zhao Huan's head became bigger again.

However, there is still good news.

Moreover, there is more than one good news.

Let’s first talk about the grain output in the south tripled last year compared with the past year!

A large amount of fruit wine shipped from Jiaozhou was also sold out in major restaurants in Tokyo, and its popularity was far beyond everyone's expectations.

Look, the owners of major hotels in Tokyo have knelt down and licked the political affairs hall, hoping that the court can provide them with more fruit wine.

As for this matter, Tang Ke, the Minister of Commerce, was so excited that he couldn't sleep.

In this way, fruits replaced the previous grain to make wine, and the grain on Gyeonggi Road was barely passed by when the emperor was urgently needed in war.

The manufacturing of cement has also been put on the agenda. Thirty cement roads have appeared on Gyeonggi Road, some have been repaired and some are being repaired.

With Tokyo as the center, radiate out.

The emergence of cement roads has greatly increased the commercial transportation speed of Gyeonggi Road.

Although this effect is not obvious at present, Zhao Huan is obviously satisfied and excited.

A very important point in business is transportation. Once the transportation system is built, not only will the efficiency be higher, but the transportation cost will also decrease, and the price of goods will naturally decrease to a certain extent.

In the report in February of the fourth year of Jingkang, what excited Zhao Huan the most was that Changan’s Iron and Steel Manufacturing Bureau and Tokyo’s Iron and Steel Manufacturing Bureau were completed almost at the same time.

Although they are still very primitive, in the Song Dynasty, Zhao Huan believed that this was the most developed steel smelting equipment on the earth.

Therefore, some people commented that this year's Song Dynasty not only regained the northwest, which had been separatist for nearly a hundred years, but also seemed to have entered the eve of the industrial revolution with the emergence of steel and cement roads.

As for the ceramics and silk trade in the Song Dynasty, it is now the top priority of the source of the Zhao Huan treasury.

He naturally had to pass all the accounts.

"Li Aiqing."

Li Gang came out and said, "I am here!"

"How is the Navy ready?"

"Report to Your Majesty, the First Navy Battalion has been formed in Hangzhou. The Privy Council submitted that Li Bao, who made great contributions in the battle of extermination, serve as the commander. Please ask Your Majesty and the Marshal to resign."

Zhao Huan raised his eyebrows slightly, feeling a little confused and surprised.

Li Bao?

Is it the genius general of the navy in the early Southern Song Dynasty?

I forgot him, but this genius is a genius. Even if I don’t deliberately look for him, he can shine.

Li Gang continued to add: "When this person was fighting against the Jiaozhi rebels, he crossed the river and commanded properly. He was nominated and recommended by Zong Gong and Yue Pengju."

"Okay, let him be the number one person in the Song Dynasty!"

"Abide by the order!"

King Kang Zhao Gou had been standing on the side for a long time, and he was watching the emperor's focus on the formation of shipping and navy.

Zhao Gou took the initiative to come out and said, "Your Majesty, I have something to report."

"King, what's wrong with you?"

"Your Majesty, Japan ordered tens of thousands of silk and ten thousand ceramics in our country last year. However, last month, war suddenly occurred in Japan, and all foreign trade was stopped, and there will be no foreign trade in the future."

As soon as he said this, Zhao Huan moved his gaze to the end line.

Indeed, in the report on the sea trade, there was a vacancy in Japan, and Zhao Gou also noted the reason.

Zhao Huan frowned. It shouldn't be that in history, Japan's country's love for the Song Dynasty was even more serious than licking it on its knees.

It shouldn't be!

"Where is the Japanese envoy to the Song Dynasty? Let him come to see me."

"Report to your Majesty, the envoy has stood up and returned to Japan last month."

"Go back?" Zhao Huan was unhappy now. You are an envoy of a country at least, but you don't even say hello to me when you go back.

Do you think that I, the emperor, don’t exist?

You can come whenever you want to come, and leave whenever you want?

"Seo Chu-in!"

"I'm here!"

"Catch the Japanese envoy back to me and don't allow him to leave the Song Dynasty!"

"I obey the order!"

Zhao Huan's eyes turned to Zhao Gou: "King Kang, what should you do about Japan?"

Zhao Gou said: "Two months ago, I heard from the beach that the reason why Japan is unwilling to engage in trade with the Song Dynasty is because they think that Your Majesty is cruel and unkind, and that he will definitely lose when he launches troops to attack Xia!"

If this was said last year, he would not dare to give Zhao Gou a hundred courages.

But now Xixia no longer exists, and the emperors have achieved unprecedented victories, so there is nothing to say like this.

"Not only Japan, but even Goryeo, at the end of last year, deliberately avoided us."

A cold light suddenly gathered in Zhao Huan's eyes.

It would be fine if he didn't improve Li, but he felt angry when he raised Zhao Huan.

Before Zhao Huan sent troops to Xixia, he had already sent people to Goryeo to let the King of Goryeo deliberately create conflicts on the border between Goryeo and Jin.

But Goryeo was afraid of the power of the Jin Kingdom and did not take the words of his emperor seriously.

This was very unhappy. Fortunately, Zhao Huan also raised Yelu Dashi, which played a role at a critical moment.

But he did not expect that Goryeo not only did not help the Song Dynasty at critical moments, but also intended to be alienated.

Goryeo is a future trouble after all!

Japan is immortal and can't sleep after all!

After leaving the court, Zhao Huan returned to his study.

Zhao Ding, the boss of the Royal Bank of the Song Dynasty, came to pay a visit.

"His Majesty."

"Zhao Aiqing, tell me, what if Japan and Goryeo can be destroyed?"

Zhao Ding was shocked. He originally thought that the emperor was asking him for Jiaozi's release, but he didn't expect that the emperor actually asked him about the destruction of Goryeo and Japan.

He was not from a military background, nor could he marche and fight. He didn't know what the emperor thought and why he came to him.

But since the emperor asked, as a minister, he should answer.

"Your Majesty, I am not from a military army, so I will talk about how to destroy Goryeo and Japan from the perspective of trade," Zhao Ding said with a tough head: "Goryeo and Japan are both small countries with scarce supplies and poor people. As a country above the Celestial Empire, the Song Dynasty should help it."
Chapter completed!