The route from Damascus to Kaifeng was from Damascus to the north, through the eastern shore of the Black Sea, through the Ural Mountains, and into the territory of the old Sabbath. Fingers followed the railway network survey on the map, and Zhao Qian was very emotional. Daddy said about a dozen years ago that Iberian horses are tall, and the recent news from Europa Province not only has a detailed description of Iberian horses, but also includes sketches. Such a brilliant horse, even Zhao Qian wanted to transport it to the Great Song Dynasty as soon as possible.

The key now is the railway. With the railway, it only takes one-tenth of the original time to transport ten times and 100 times the original materials back and forth between the various production areas. Zhao Qian was a soldier, and the significance of this does not need to be repeated. The question now is when the much-needed railroad will be built.

A few days ago, it was reported that the third group of Japanese laborers had arrived in the Great Song Dynasty, and the total number of Japanese laborers in the Great Song Dynasty had reached 170,000. According to the agreement between the Great Song Dynasty and the Great Song Dynasty, the number of Japanese people working in the Great Song Dynasty at the beginning of next year will reach 330,000. Labor efficiency has also increased from an average of three square meters of soil excavated and transported per day to four or even five square meters.

Zhao Qian let out a few long breaths, pressed his heart with his hand, closed his eyes and said to himself silently: Calm down! Calm down! Know to let go at this time! Be sure to let it go! This should be the work of various departments, and I must not meddle in other people's work! Daddy never takes credit from anyone else! I want to be calm, I want to be calm......

There was a knock on the door, and Zhao Qian opened his eyes and said, "Come in." ”

The secretary walked in quickly, "Prince, the Minister of Commerce is here." ”

"Ask him to come in." Zhao Qian ordered.

The Minister of Commerce walked into the room like a gust of wind and sat down on the chair opposite Zhao Qian. Zhao Qian smiled: "Seeing that you are in such a hurry, do you want to drink saliva first." ”

"Let me talk about it for a while." The Minister of Commerce couldn't help but be overjoyed and already smiled.

"It's good news that you can laugh after summing up the data so hard!" Zhao Qian tried to clarify the difference between himself and the Minister of Commerce.

The Minister of Commerce had happily taken out the documents, first handed the statistical table to Zhao Qian, and then handed the documents over. After Zhao Qian took it, he looked at the statistical table first. The minister took out his share and began to say, "Prince, in terms of expenditure alone, the average cost of land per square meter for the Japanese laborers is 40% of that for the Great Song Dynasty, and we have opened money houses and shops in various parts of the Japanese country, and the money given to the Japanese laborers and land has been used to buy the goods of the Great Song Dynasty. It's all back. The various enterprises that exported to the Japanese made a lot of money. ”

Zhao Qian listened and watched, and the statistics showed that all the money had been used up by the Japanese laborers and land, and they used the money given by the Great Song Dynasty to buy cement, farm tools, cloth, and daily necessities to sell. After a large circle of circulation, they eventually returned to the factories where these goods were produced in the Great Song Dynasty, some of which were used to continue production, and some of which were paid to the workers of the Great Song Dynasty.

"I've always thought that logically speaking, none of this is a problem. It's just that I saw this system officially operational, and I was a little afraid. The Minister of Commerce said with emotion.

Zhao Qian also nodded vigorously. The model itself is based on certain conditions, and the executors have to find ways to ensure that these determined conditions do not change. Once the conditions change, the result is really a thousand miles away.

"Prince, I thought that if I had known this earlier, I could have started doing this ten years ago. Now that I think about it, it is a quick step forward that this matter can be completed today. The Secretary of Commerce continued to lament.

Zhao Qian couldn't help but look up at the Minister of Commerce, and the minister's words were exactly what Zhao Qian felt not long ago. Although he said to himself, Daddy is calm when pushing things, which is the characteristic of a strong man. But Zhao Qian inevitably had some doubts in his heart, feeling that his father was too cautious in doing things.

When Zhao Qian took this out and discussed it with the staff of the society, Senior Liu of Henan Road asked a question, "If the Japanese State does not implement it, what should we do?" Send troops to fight it? ”

Zhao Qian suddenly brightened up. If this matter is only regarded as a certain agreement between the Great Song Dynasty and the landlords of the Japanese Kingdom, Zhao Jiaren's approach will naturally seem to be procrastinating. If the context is positioned to make the Wakoku dare not break the agreement first, Zhao Jiaren first recruits the Wakoku, selects and cultivates a trustworthy force from the Wako, and then uses this power to master the Iyo Naval Army, and then control the Shikoku with the weakest control of the Wakoku shogunate. Then, through the construction of the four countries, a more powerful force was formed, and this power was used to force the various forces of the Japanese kingdom not to dare to break the treaty. It does take twenty or thirty years to build such a solid foundation.

Just because the Japanese people are now cooperating wholeheartedly does not mean that if the same cooperation had been carried out twenty or thirty years ago, the Japanese people would have treated the Great Song Dynasty in the same way. Zhao Qian confirmed his point of view, but he didn't expect that the Minister of Commerce had already thought of this at this time. Recently, many ministers began to say some heartfelt words to Zhao Qian, and Zhao Qian said with a smile: "We all think that the official family acts in a way of cultivation and protects the law, so it is better to ask the minister to take the lead in compiling the Great Song Dynasty Finance Minister's compilation, and sort out the financial policies in the history of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

The Minister of Commerce showed joy and hurriedly responded: "It's better to ask the prince to take the lead." ”

"How can it be my turn to take the lead in the affairs of the Ministry of Commerce." Zhao Qian immediately remembered the point that he could not take credit from other departments, and saw that the Minister of Commerce was very happy, Zhao Qian smiled and said: "In other words, since you are compiling a long compilation, you have to seek truth from facts." Previous policies should not be belittled or touted. Be logical. There must have been many reasons for what the imperial court did, and the ministers at that time also had many positions and private interests in them. Let's not comment on it, but just write it down. I think this long compilation is not to judge whether it is straight or wrong, but to write it straight, so that future generations can know what the Great Song Dynasty has done. ”

"Got it." The Commerce Secretary's answer was somewhat haphazard.

Zhao Qian didn't want to say more, he picked up the report and said, "The long compilation is a matter for the future, and we will continue to talk about this today." ”

The Secretary of Commerce reluctantly collected his mood and continued to make a report. The cooperation made by the local government was very important to the Great Song Dynasty, and the money houses and shops in various places collected a huge amount of first-hand information, which was sent back to the Great Song Dynasty for analysis and summary, and the basic appearance of the Japanese State was unfolded in front of the Great Song Dynasty.

“…… I didn't understand how the Frost Moon Rebellion began, and I thought that the local merchants of the Wa Kingdom would oppose us with all their might. In reality, this is not the case. "The Secretary of Commerce held the results of the investigation in his hand and made the report very calmly. The Frost Moon Riot was a civil strife in the Wa Shogunate, and the Imperial Family, headed by the Adachi family, was a subordinate of the Shogunate, and the Imperial Clan, led by Heira Yoritsuna, was a retainer of the Hojo family. Purely in terms of power comparison, the Hojo family does not have overwhelming power. One of the reasons why Ping Laigang was able to easily kill the Anda family was that the Anda family did something wrong on their own.

The Kamakura shogunate had been under peace for a long time, and the population was increasing rapidly. The population of the Wa Shogunate was the object of oppression, and the increase in population was a good thing in the eyes of the Wa Shogunate. The problem lies with the upper strata of the Wa State, whose population has increased and wealth has not increased at the same rate. As a result, the life of the upper class of the Japanese state is generally not as good as that of the previous generation. In the eyes of the shogunate, this was 'shaking the shogunate'.

Faced with a financial crisis, the head of the Adachi family, Adachi Taisheng, issued the "Tak Decree", which allowed the royal family to repay their debts after borrowing money from merchants. directly led to the destruction of the Anda family.

After listening to the minister's story, Zhao Qian thought carefully for a while, wrote a logical relationship with a pen, and suddenly burst out laughing. "Hahaha, this is really self-defeating. Take the blame, haha! ”

The minister smiled as well. Theoretically, the Edict allowed the Imperial Family not to have to repay the money owed to the merchants, who were unlucky. The merchant did not have the strength to confront the Imperial Family, who controlled the place, and the Imperial Family's life was immediately much better.

But the world is not so simple, and of course the merchants are angry, they are not weak rabbits. The rabbit was anxious and bit people, and the Japanese merchants immediately took countermeasures. As soon as the German decree was issued, a considerable part of the imperial family members in the country had not had time to repay their debts, and the merchants stopped lending to the imperial family. If the royal family had the ability to live a normal life on their own, they would not have borrowed money from merchants. Since they could not afford to live a normal life on their own income, borrowing became a means of subsistence. The merchants did not lend money to the royal family, which made the life of the royal family, which was already difficult for many days, even worse.

The brutal political methods of the German government decree did not improve the lives of the royal family while offending the merchants in an all-round way, and the merchants also had a lot of backstage, which made those powerful people have great hatred for Anda Taisheng. While building up the enemy and losing a large number of its own supporters, the fall of Anda Taisheng was only a matter of time.

After the second wave of Japanese laborers returned to China, local businessmen from the Japanese Kingdom, who were considered by the Great Song Dynasty to be parties to the conflict of interest, came to take refuge one after another, which frightened the Ministry of Commerce. The Japanese merchants were telling the truth, after the demise of the Adachi family, the Kamakura shogunate no longer mentioned the matter of the Toku decree, but it did not announce the abolition of the Toku decree. This made the Japanese merchants very worried. Since neither the Kamakura shogunate nor the Ashikaga family dared to offend the Great Song Dynasty money houses and shops, the Japanese merchants were willing to rely on the strong and cooperate with the Great Song Dynasty money houses and shops.

The Ministry of Commerce does not mind that its collaborators share benefits, and they are also in dire need of collaborators in the unfamiliar country. Adhering to the style of the Zhao official family, the Ministry of Commerce neither wants the Japanese businessmen to commit treason, nor does it want the Japanese businessmen to do dangerous things. The Ministry of Commerce only asked the Japanese merchants to provide the financial situation of the leading figures in various parts of the Japanese country that they knew, as well as basic information about the various parts of the country. The cooperation between the two sides for several months has paid off, and the Ministry of Commerce has a thick body of information covering the entire Wa State, and the Japanese merchants have managed to get rid of the debts by distributing goods and reselling the debts of the upper ranks of the Wa State to the Great Song Money.

When Zhao Qian heard this, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "You won't let the money village settle their debts when they give money to those landowners, right?" ”

"How can it not be liquidated!" The Minister of Commerce replied proudly: "It is natural to repay debts, this is not just to help our collaborators, those who pay off their arrears can raise their heads and be people." Be upright and dignified. ”

Zhao Qian smiled but didn't speak. He was not worried that the landlords would fall out with the Great Song Dynasty because of this, and the labor force of the common people of the Japanese State was almost worthless in the hands of the landlords before, but now it has become a cash cow for the landlords to accumulate wealth. A small incentive to repay the arrears may motivate the landlords to work harder to sell their labor. Thinking of this, Zhao Qian said to the Minister of Finance: "Since we are buying Japanese labor, we must strictly abide by the system and cannot deduct Japanese labor. They are already pitiful enough, and any further deduction can only affect their labor efficiency, which is very unfavorable to the Great Song Dynasty. The sooner the railway is completed, the sooner we will make a breakthrough. We must not be deceived by petty profits, and we will pick sesame seeds and lose watermelons. ”

The Minister of Commerce was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly responded: "This is natural! This is natural! ”

As he spoke, the minister hurriedly kept the prince's position in mind, and at the same time wondered if someone had said something. It is not that no one in the Ministry of Commerce has raised the idea of reducing the treatment of Japanese labor, and the minister did not take it seriously after hearing this. As Zhao Qian said, the trade volume completed by the Ministry of Commerce according to the plan, and the benefits from the unexpected collaborator of the merchant allies are enough to be called a great achievement.

Of course, the Ministry of Commerce did not dare to snatch the credit for the plan from the Zhao official family, and this was not their credit. The credit for the implementation is enough for the Ministry of Commerce to be highly evaluated, and this credit is already very impressive. Therefore, the minister does not look down on the 'small achievement' of reducing the treatment of Japanese laborers. With the current manpower of the Ministry of Commerce, it would be good to be able to do the work at hand well. Those petty profits can wait until later. At this time, listening to the prince's position, the minister decided not to take a position on this matter in the future.

After talking with the Minister of Commerce, Zhao Qian only felt excited. After standing up and walking a few laps, I couldn't help but continue to look at the railway plan. He himself felt a little emotional, how did the construction of the railway suddenly become the key to the development of the Great Song Dynasty? At the moment when the water is coming to fruition, the railway has fully revealed its own value. The army has already conducted exercises on the completed Haizhou (Lianyungang) to Kaifeng railway and the Zhiguzhai (Tianjin) to Youzhou (Beijing) railway.

Facts have proved that the railway can transport the troops and equipment of the Northern Theater to Hangzhou and Kaifeng within 15 days. It is also possible to transport the troops of Hangzhou and Kaifeng to the Northern Theater. Troops can be put into battle as soon as they arrive at their destination. If it was before, it would be nice for the troops to arrive in Kaifeng from Hangzhou, not to mention going back and forth in a month, with artillery and other heavy equipment. If the railway bridge across the Yellow River is completed, the troops of the Northern Theater can easily reach Cochin Province to suppress the rebellion within a month. In addition to compulsory education for all, Dad never said a hundred-year plan. But he quietly promoted one hundred years after another.

Zhao Qian originally thought that he would be at a loss after taking over his father's burden, but now he doesn't have time to be at a loss, just follow the path created by his father. In the next 100 years and thousands of years, the Great Song Dynasty will have endless things to do.

was calming down to do the work at hand, Zhao Qian received an internal telegram, and his father asked him to go. Zhao Qian hurried over, and saw his father raise his head and point to something on the table, then lowered his head and continued to work. Zhao Qian sat down and flipped through the documents, which were actually based on the Mongolian thinking content summarized by Yang Congrong's report.

When conquering the Mongol city of Youzhou, the Great Song Dynasty seized a large number of documents. Coupled with the interrogation before the execution of the barbarians, the Great Song began to compile a history of the Mongols. Among the materials sent back by Yang Congrong from Damascus is a Mongolian prince's inscription translated into Chinese, and some people have already analyzed Mongolian traditions and institutions based on this inscription, and it seems that Daddy is preparing to add this to the history of Mongolia as evidence.

After reading a few paragraphs, Zhao Qian sighed slightly. Although I don't know who summarized it, the content of the summary can be regarded as quite sharp and spicy.

The prince who attacked the Great Khan of Timur did not have the slightest inner turmoil in the inscription, let alone the panic after the murder of the king. After admitting that he had attacked and killed Timur at the beginning, the prince began to scold Timur as a Mongolian traitor.

This author has a deep knowledge of economics and uses economic terms as metaphors. Many people think that Mongolia is a feudal system of top-down authorization, similar to a joint-stock limited company. In fact, Mongolian jurisprudence is consistent with unlimited liability companies, which is contrary to feudal jurisprudence.

Kublai Khan wanted to establish a top-down feudal system, and Timur mistakenly believed that the Mongols had completed this structure, and the prince's attack on the Great Khan was a betrayal and rebellion. According to Mongolian tradition, there was no such thing as a prince who betrayed the Great Khan, only a prince who betrayed other princes. Only feudal countries and modern nation-states have the perception of betrayal of the state, the prince under the Mongolian system is equivalent to an investor, looting is equivalent to venture capital, the Kuritai Congress is equivalent to electing a manager, and the Kuritai Congress elects the general manager of the Mongolian Liability Unlimited Company. The Mongol prince's attack on the khan is, in economic terms, an act of divestment or reduction.

The jurisprudence of the Mongol Great Khan comes from the subjective trust of each prince, and the Lord A believes that obeying the Great Khan can bring greater dividends, so the Great Khan is the Great Khan of the Lord Jia. Prince B does not believe in the profitability of the Khan, no matter how much the Great Khan is supported by the prince, it is not the Great Khan of King B. Based on such a source of jurisprudence, the Great Khan of Mongolia was the Great Khan of each Mongolian prince, not the Great Khan of the whole prince, the whole nation, and the whole country.

King A took the means of attacking the Great Khan to reduce his holdings, because he was subjectively the first and the action was last, so before the attack, the Great Khan was no longer the Great Khan of King Jia. Therefore, Prince A's attack on the Great Khan may constitute a betrayal to Prince B, but between Prince A and the Great Khan, it does not constitute a betrayal, and even from the perspective of professional ethics, it is likely that the Great Khan first betrayed Prince A.

Mongolian history goes back and forth about two contradictions, one is that the current Great Khan is always trying to find a way to institutionalize the country, that is, the corruption of putting the prince's investment into his own pocket, and the princes have been resisting this corruption. The second is that when electing a new Great Khan, the person who can always let the prince have the highest dividend expectations is elected

Kublai Khan took away the power of the princes to choose the greatest dividends by convening the Kuritai Congress, which he completely controlled, and the traditional legal structure of Mongolia collapsed. As the heir to Kublai Khan's corrupt policies, Timur was not the legitimate Great Khan under Mongol legal law, and the Mongol princes turned a blind eye to the suffering of the Golden Horde, and chose to attack Timur when he was about to be defeated, not only was it not a betrayal, but a righteous act by the Mongol system itself to try to save itself.

The Great Khan's system itself dictated that looting and migration had to be organized, which was dictated by the system, and the institutional source was to prevent civil wars. Without a co-invested Great Khan, the princes would have fallen into an endless war against each other. But this does not prove that the Great Khan is smarter than the princes, but that the princes who elected the Great Khan are wiser than the elected Great Khan. The princes understood the economy and carried out economic construction internally, and the Great Khan did not have the power to interfere and formulate the overall economic policy.

Zhao Qiangang talked to the Minister of Commerce, and he is very sensitive to economic vocabulary, and he wanted to laugh when he read this article that can be named "Mongolia with Limited and Unlimited Liability Companies", but he really couldn't laugh. The history books of China are full of records of betrayal, subversion, and substitution. The most recent replacement is Zhao Qian's extremely revered father Zhao Jiaren, who is the official family of the Great Song Dynasty who sat in front of Zhao Qian and calmly gave official documents.

The substitutes declared themselves righteous in the same way as the Mongols, except that when they got power, they switched their heads because they switched their butts. Thinking of this, Zhao Qian couldn't help but sigh. As soon as he finished sighing, Zhao Qian heard his father say: "Don't sigh, as long as you really achieve sovereignty in the people and serve the people wholeheartedly, there is nothing to be afraid of." ”

Then Zhao Qian saw his father raise his head, with a smile on his face, "I let you see this, one reason is that the Mongolian prince is really interesting, you can take a look at the text, and the object of the text." ”

Zhao Qian could only bury his head and continue to read the text. With the summary, the rough and straightforward sentences of the text become very easy to understand.

Traitor, emperor, traitor, imperialist – Timur has been condemned. At the beginning, Timur sought the Khan position through illegal means, and although everyone was unhappy, they still listened to his words and watched his deeds to see if he was doing what the Great Khan should do. Later, I found out that there was none. Timur did steal the Great Khan's post, and then put the dividends due to the princes into his pocket. Everyone has seen enough conclusive evidence with their own eyes that Timur is indeed a thief, a traitor, and a traitor, and this reality cannot be denied. Now that the country is in danger, it is necessary to quickly cut through the chaos and cut Tiemur for the way of heaven - for the way of the immortal heaven and the rules of the grassland - so he beheaded Timur. In order to survive the difficult times, everyone must immediately re-elect the Great Khan......

Such a straightforward and proud declaration made Zhao Qian sigh again, and when he read the last paragraph, he finally couldn't help but burst into laughter. At the end of the letter sent by the princes to Hao Kang, who had accepted Timur's succession, it was written that an emergency Kuritai conference was scheduled to be held at a certain time and place, and all parties would join forces to run for the new Great Khan. If not, it will be regarded as secession from Mongolia and will need to re-establish diplomatic relations with the new Great Khan separately in the future. The reason why Hao Kang was sent a letter was that Hao Kang, as the legitimate prince of Mongolia, was eligible to participate in the new Kuritai Conference.

Zhao Qian, who clearly understands the current situation, leans forward and backwards with a smile, the straightforwardness of the Mongolian prince is worthy of admiration, and there is nothing funny here. Just thinking of Hao Kang's reaction when he saw this article, especially when he saw the last paragraph of the article, Zhao Qian couldn't help but smile.

Smiling and smiling, Zhao Qian's tears came out.