Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1008
This time Kou Zhun was going to the South China Sea to conspire with Liu Jinyuan under Ye Chen's secret order. Of course, he had to gather some information about the South China Sea and the Song Dynasty Navy from the Ministry of Security in advance, so he knew what the Navy was.

Ye Chen sent Liu Jinyuan and Du Qianqiu to occupy the country of Wa and build a powerful navy.Although Song Weifu's ability to inquire about news is not comparable to that of the Ministry of Security, it is difficult to know such a big matter.After all, the sea merchants between Japan and China have never been broken for many years.In order to guard against Xiangfu Kingdom's navy at sea, Zhao Pu, Song Emperor Zhao Dezhao, and Cao Bin at the time reached an agreement as early as last year to form the Sky Navy with a force of [-] sailors.

Kou Zhun instantly understood the identity of this fleet, and it was obviously the Tianhai Navy's routine sea training.The speed of the warships of the Great Song Navy is naturally much faster than that of ordinary merchant ships.
Kou Zhun resisted the urge to take out the binoculars to watch the Tian Haijun, but he didn't have time to take a closer look at the Tian Hai Hai, and the latter's warship quickly passed them.

The fleet of the Sky Navy surpassed them one by one, and finally gradually disappeared from Kou Zhun's sight.Kou Zhun turned his head and looked towards the farther and farther coast, watching the port on the coast slowly disappear into a small white dot, and eventually he could see nothing at all.

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Kou Zhun and his party were mostly from the north and had never seen the sea. Many people got seasick, and some got sick, and they looked very serious.Fortunately, there was an imperial physician in the palace of Xiangfu Kingdom among the accompanying people, and he was fully prepared for seasickness and other situations.But even so, the seasickness and disease made them feel scared and their morale was low.

Two days later, the fleet encountered a storm.Kou Zhun was sleeping at the time, but he was awakened by the sound of the deck soil soon. The violent wind and rain caused the ship to overturn very badly. Although their ship was very large, they still could not withstand such bad weather. Hastily asked someone to loosen the rigging, but the main mast and the fourth mast were still broken.Finally the master of the ship ordered several masts to be let down, and all night they fought in the storm.Two sailors slipped and fell into the sea when they went up on deck to help strengthen the mast during a storm.

Fortunately, the storm lasted for a day and then the weather improved. Fortunately, Kou Zhun and his party did not deviate too far from the planned channel, but until they arrived at Jipu Island where Liu Jinyuan was located, their morale was low.

The sea water in the harbor of Jeep Island is blue and boundless, and the boats coming and going, the first thing they see when entering this beautiful port is a towering stone tower, standing on the seashore, guiding the merchant ships coming from afar.Jeep Island gave Kou Zhun and others the first impression of prosperity, magnificence, and cleanliness. It is hard to imagine that there is such a city and such a port in the "barbarian land" that Kou Zhun and others envisioned.

But he didn't know that this port, this city, and even this island were all built in the half a year after Liu Jinyuan took over.The city on Jeep Island is built of bricks and stones, and the city is tens of miles long. Outside this tall city wall, there are many stone towers, which are full of soldiers with spears and bows. The residents in the city are warm and polite, far away Far beyond the imagination of Kou Zhun and others who came from afar.

Kou Zhun and others were here, and they also saw the gathering of business travelers from all over the world. Not only were there barbarians with different appearances, but they could often hear people talking in Cantonese, Quanzhou, and Hangzhou dialects of the Song Dynasty.However, there seemed to be some confusion in the prosperity, and Kou Zhun actually saw the slave trade.Obviously, here and the other two islands, as the information obtained by Kou Zhun said, lack of civilian governance, all of which are very rough military control.

Kou Zhun used binoculars to see from a distance that Liu Jinyuan, who had met once, led a large group of people waiting for them at the port.

As early as March 29 of this year, Liu Jinyuan brought his navy and merchant ships to the waters of Jiaozhi State. It happened that Li Huan, the commander of the ten generals of the Great Quyue State, was undergoing a mutiny. Mistaking Li Huan for help, he fought and surrendered miserably.After Liu Jinyuan learned about the domestic situation of Da Quyue from Jiangjun, he sent elite soldiers to escort envoys to Li Huan and reached an agreement with him. Liu Jinyuan was named the commander of the Naval University by Li Huan. The other two naval divisions of Quyue Kingdom.For this reason, Li Huan agreed to Liu Jinyuan's two requests.

First, Catba Island, Hunguo Island, and Champa Island were leased to Liu Jinyuan for ten years after the war.

Second, the maritime merchants under Liu Jinyuan can conduct business with any port in Cochin at will, and will not pay taxes for ten years.

And since May, Xiangfu Kingdom has opened up its territory, and its territory has more than doubled in just four or five months. After Hunguo Island and Champa Island, it took seven months to fight dozens of naval battles with various forces in the South China Sea, including the court of the Great Quyue Kingdom. Finally, relying on [-] sailors, they finally gained a firm foothold in the South China Sea and became One of the most powerful forces in the South China Sea.

Liu Jinyuan welcomed Kou Zhun and his party grandly, and after taking them into the city to settle down, Liu Jinyuan led a group of naval officers above the company commander to accept the imperial decree from Ye Chen brought by Kou Zhun.

Ye Chen's imperial decree basically said two things. One is to appoint Kou Zhun as the ambassador of the South China Sea, and let Liu Jinyuan hand over all matters of cultural governance to Kou Zhun, and the navy is controlled by Kou Zhun to a certain extent.The second is to allow Kou Zhun and Liu Jinyuan to unify the South China Sea islands within two years and establish a navy with more than [-] people.

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Kaifeng, Prime Minister's Mansion.

Zhao Pu's face was gloomy, and now the open and secret fight between him and the emperor has been completely torn apart, and the situation has turned into a fire and water, and both sides are using all kinds of means.And what worries him a little recently is that the emperor Zhao Dezhao has suddenly become a lot smarter and more sophisticated, and he has even brought out the emperor's innate advantages to the fullest. Taking advantage of the loss of Minzhou and Xizhou, the emperor just changed from the original weakness to the present He and Zhao Pu are evenly divided.Seeing that the emperor's control over the court began to grow slowly but firmly, Zhao Pu gradually began to feel fear in his heart.He knew very well that the day of his failure was the day when the nine clans of the Zhao family were punished, and even the emperor's hatred for him might cut him into pieces and let him die after suffering the most pain in the world. At that time, he will also end his life early.

"How capable Lu Yuqing is, the old man is very clear. That Zhang Dong is a good hand in inquiring about news or doing some shady things, but he doesn't have such means and strategies. So there must be other experts around the emperor to give advice." Zhao Pu frowned slightly Frown, said in a low voice to all his confidantes.

After a pause, Zhao Pu glanced over the crowd, with a serious expression on his face, and said: "If this continues, the old man's family will naturally end up being punished, and everyone is the same as the old man. So we need to make early plans and get ahead. Once If you succeed, you will be the founding heroes of this old man, rich and powerful, high-ranking officials and nobles, this old man will never be stingy."

Everyone's face changed, but their expressions were already solemn.

"Fortunately, we have been planning for today's goal for more than a year, and everything is waiting to be launched. Now the time is not waiting for us, and the situation is pressing. Whether you and the old man will share this world, or be punished by the nine clans, it is up to you. Therefore, Let’s start preparing according to the previously established plan! Whoever has completed the preparations will report to the old man, and when all the tasks you are responsible for are completed, it will be the time for us to start the incident.”

"Yes, Xianggong!" All Zhao Pu's confidantes in the room responded in unison.

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At the same time, the harem of the Great Song Palace.

Li Siyan was dressed in white, and sat lightly, with a pillar of soothing incense in front of him, and the cigarette curled up.She sat cross-legged and fiddled with her ten fingers, and the melody poured out like flowing water.It was the evening of spring, and the flowers were still bright, but in the Duoerqin music, there was a faint sense of death and the coming of the autumn wind.

Her melodious and smooth sound of the piano, high restraining the clouds, closes the eyes to listen, as if the autumn is refreshing, the wind is calm and the sand is flat, the clouds are thousands of miles away, and the sky is flying.The melody rises and falls, stretches on and on, leisurely and elegant, with movement in the stillness, and it is even more wonderful under Master Liu's ten fingers.

Song Emperor Zhao Dezhao, who was opposite, sat quietly with his eyes slightly closed, and his fingers flicked on the table following her music, as if in response.

After stroking the song, Li Siyan smiled sweetly and said: "Your Majesty, does Siyan's song "Pingsha Luoyan" still catch your Majesty's ears?"

Zhao Dezhao opened his eyes and said with a smile: "Siyan's talent is the best in the world, even though it is an ordinary tune, but after being played by Siyan, it is like the sound of nature, let alone such a famous song? But the artistic conception of this song is too elegant, um... ...Can Siyan know the score of "Guangling San"?"

Li Siyan raised her eyebrows slightly, and said with a coquettish smile: "This song is also called "Nie Zheng Assassinates the King of Han". It is said that it is quoted from the story of Nie Zheng's assassination of the King of Han in the Warring States period. Unavoidable, I played "Guangling San" to express my anger. After the song, I once said: "Yuan Xiaoni invited this San, but I will not accept it. "Guangling San" is now dead!" The wind is different. This is just Ji Kang's angry words before his execution, saying that the "Guangling San" he caressed has become an absolute hit, but it does not mean that this piece of music has been lost, and later generations spread the rumors, so that there will be no "Guangling San" in the world. However It is true that this song is not widely spread, and there are very few people in the world who know it, and Siyan...is just one of them."

When she said this, she smiled coquettishly at Zhao Dezhao, and said flatteringly: "Unexpectedly, His Majesty is so proficient with the temperament, and knows that this piece of music still exists in the world. If Si Yan's prediction is not bad, His Majesty must have heard it before."

Now Zhao Dezhao has completely lost the rudeness and unrestrainedness he had treated other women over the past year, but now he looks like a gentleman. The reason for this is because Li Siyan is Li Mingxuan's niece.

(End of this chapter)