In the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu, the coast of grace, the port.

Song Gongming, who had white hair, looked at his brother Song Qing, who was in good spirits despite his weathered face, and laughed happily. "It has been more than a year since I was parted before, and my brother has been running around, very hard, but the elegance is still the same, the foolish brother is relieved, very relieved."

He's going back home. The body is not good, and the energy is also poor, this time it is to return to the old man, and leaving the stage of power is an inevitable result. However, seeing his younger brother emerging and making great achievements, Song Gongming sighed in his heart that there was a successor.

Who is Song Qing? The white fan of Kurosaburo at the beginning also. The person who knows most about his brother's revenge naturally understands what Song Jiang is most worried about, and he is very happy now.

Song Jiang is the pillar of the Song family, he is very old, and he must leave the center stage of power, but most of the children and grandchildren of the Song family are still young, and the age of thirty is not enough for them to go to a high position, let alone to ensure that they will go smoothly in the future. Even if they are from Jeju and have the surname Song, even if they are surnamed Lin, such an age is not enough for them to take on the big responsibility. What's more, they didn't show any otherworldly excellence. At this time, the rise of the Song and Qing dynasties was a perfect transition.

Although Song Qing's age is not much younger than Song Jiang, and the power of Honglu Siqing cannot be compared with Song Jiang, this is a high position. After a few years, Song Qing will also retire, but in the past few years, the descendants of the Song family can also go through the most critical and important years on the way!

In the ten years from the age of 25 to the age of 35, it is very important for young officials, all of them are in a seedling state, and when everyone is 'laying the foundation', even if you can take a step forward to a hurdle, it will be of great help to your future career.

Song Jiang didn't want Song Qing, who had already sat in the position of Honglu Temple, to use his power for personal gain to seek benefits for the children of the Song family, but just to let others 'treat the children of the Song family equally' when they saw them!

The time for brothers to reunite is always short-lived, but two days later, Song Qing bid farewell to Song Jiang who returned to China at the port. In the context of today's times, it is really difficult for the two brothers to guarantee that they will see each other again in the future.

At that time, he was the secretary of Honglu Temple, and now Honglu Temple has been upgraded by Emperor Lu to the second-grade yamen comparable to the State Administration of Taxation, and Song Qing, who is also the special diplomatic ambassador of Emperor Lu, can not send his brother back to China all the way, he still needs to cross Egypt and enter North Africa. He even led the secret meeting between Lu Qi and Rome......

Lu Qian did not give up his intention to 'punish' Europe, but he knew that it would be difficult for Lu Qi to do so in a short period of time. Unless he stops the exploration and development of the Americas, stops the sinicization of the vast Central Asia and West Asia, and pulls together the cavalry of each subject country and tribe, the mighty horse's hooves can definitely step on every inch of the mountains and rivers of Europe...... but he can't make up his mind.

It's easy to stop the exploration and development of the Americas, but once the sinicization of a large area of Central Asia and West Asia is stopped, the cost and effect of the second opening will be greatly reduced. After thinking about it, Lu Qian still decided to temporarily stop the punishment of Europe!

But this is only temporary, maybe three years, maybe five years, when Lu Qi establishes his initial rule in the large areas he conquers, when new vassal states appear in Central Asia, West Asia and Europe, when Lu Qian leaves the throne to the second generation, he will definitely personally lead troops to punish the entire world of one god.

Yes, personally lead the troops!

This is a thought that Lu Qian has never said to outsiders for many years, but it is becoming more and more deeply rooted in his heart.

He was to personally lead his troops to attack Europe.

Because his body is still good. What's more, after passing the throne to his son in a few years, his age in this world is only in his sixties, and sixty years is very old?

Even in the same period of history, there was still Cai Jing, who was nearly eighty years old and had been in power four times, and Lu Qian did not feel that he was already very old in his sixties.

Although he knew that once his idea was 'revealed to the world', he would definitely encounter opposition from all over the country. But he really wanted to go and ravage Europa with his own hands. It was his great wish to punish Europe, punish Gaul chickens, John Bulls, Hans cats, punish eagle sauce, foot basin chickens, punish hairy bears, noodles, etc.

Even though Eagle Sauce has not yet been born, the footpot chicken has been stewed, and the hairy bear has been killed, the Gallic chicken, John Bull and Hanse cat, the take-out noodles, and other condiments have not yet entered the pot, which is really a bit imperfect!

But things have to come step by step, first let Song Qing, who has not been able to return to report on his work for many years, even when he was promoted to Honglu Siqing, he is a great hero on the road to trying to get the Ethiopians, and talk to Rome secretly. Lu Qi didn't have to take down the Byzantines immediately, but Asia Minor was his ambition.

Naturally, Europeans can not be so iron-headed, and this matter will not be a problem.

Although the Europeans were not stupid and knew that it meant more to Lu Qi to do this, they really couldn't see any hope of victory. Even if the navy can be used to continuously harass the coastal area at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, which has caused a lot of defensive pressure on Lu Qi, this is all a disease of ringworm.

They can only harass the locality, but it is impossible to gain a foothold on the shore. At most, it's a widow!

Therefore, a temporary truce between the two sides is not a mutually beneficial option. Lu Qi is taking the opportunity to gain a firm foothold, and they can also take advantage of this time period to achieve internal unity and integrate more forces.

If Song Qing can complete this task, together with his previous achievements, as long as he can return to Jinling in good health, there will be a greater future waiting for him. In recent years, there has been a rumor circulating in Lu Qi Chaozhong, and Honglu Siqing will also enter the cabinet. In that case, Honglu Siqing is not just Honglu Siqing, he is also the cabinet minister of the empire.

The iron fan persuaded the people of Xizha Lou in the Tianzhu Continent, and after watching the Xi Cha Lou Dynasty for a while, he decided to enter the battlefield, but it relieved the pressure on the Lu Qi army. Later, he 'convinced' the caliph of Baghdad Muqtafi to let the heavenly world 'succeed' in removing the Persian plateau. Muktafi, who has seized the real power, is now thinking about the whole of Iraq, and then thinking about the Celestial Peninsula and Egypt. And with the suppression of his caliph, the indigenous resistance of the entire Persian plateau has been greatly reduced.

Not to mention that he leveled the Ethiopians. Although the latter is a separatist force in Orthodoxy, no matter how this is the case, it also believes in Orthodoxy, right?

It is not the credit of Song Qing that allows the Ethiopians to finally reject the call of the Byzantines and the call of the monotheistic world, but the cruel reality. The rapid recovery of the Ethiopians is inseparable from Lu Qi's support, and it is impossible for them to really fight Lu Qi. That would be a huge setback for them!

But at this juncture, the Ethiopians did not concentrate on killing Egypt, but turned south and expanded their territory to the interior of Africa, which is the credit of Song Qing. And by making peace with the war between Ethiopia and Egypt, the Song and Qing dynasties also had an influence in the decaying Fatimid Dynasty, killing two birds with one stone, which is the real credit!

Lu Qian attaches great importance to Egypt for only one reason - its special geographical location.

The Suez Canal, in the short term, is unlikely to be developed. But what about a few decades from now, a hundred years, two hundred years from now?

It was an inevitable choice for Lu Qi to attack Europe and dig through the Suez Canal.