Zhao Kuangyin flipped through the drawings and said, "Song Jiu, you are well done, I will give you the Duke of Puguo."

Most of the Dukes of the Song Dynasty used the title of Duke of the Spring and Autumn Period as their titles. Xiang Shi Shuxin was Duke of Wei, and Gao Huaide was Duke of Ji. Theoretically, the status of all Dukes was the same, the difference was the number of fiefs and real towns. But there must be a little difference between Duke of the Great Kingdom and Duke of the Small Kingdom, just like Changsun Wuji was Duke of Qi, Hou Junji was Duke of Chen, which Duke of the Great Kingdom? Shi Shuxin was Duke of Wei, Gao Huaide was Duke of Ji, and that Duke of the Great Kingdom? God knows where Ji is. Some people may know, but where is Puguo? Song Jiu thought for a long time before he knew that there was a Puguo in history, which seemed to be in the Puzhou area of ​​Hedong. If he had not traveled over and read many historical books, he had been beaten to death in his previous life, he would not have known that there was such a small country.

But it was the Duke of the State in the end, which was considered as Zhao Kuangyin fulfilling his promise, recognizing Song Jiu's contributions and a small compensation.

But this compensation came too late.

Song Jiu said: "Your Majesty, this noble minister will not accept it. If you give me a gift, you should give me a meritorious general to recover Jiangnan. If Your Majesty gives me kindness, can you agree to a small request?"

“What request?”

"If the Khitan comes to envoy, can Your Majesty tell them and release my concubine back?" Song Jiu finished speaking and looked at Zhao Kuangyin with a gaze.

"You, I asked me to silently see you sending my concubine to the territory of Khitan. Now I regret it."

"I didn't expect that if I had known this, I would have let her pass in spring the previous year. At that time, the ice and snow would not be closed to the sea. If I take a look, I would come back, and this would be gone."

"I heard you spent a lot of money."

"I used some money and silk. Weichen heard that the queen of Khitan detained Yuping and sent 50,000 yuan of gold and silver to make the Ma family comfortable. He also arranged a few Youzhou merchants to look back. At the end of last year, the news came back. Yuping's biological father said that the money had been used up, but it was ineffective. He asked Weichen to send another 100,000 yuan of gold and silk. Or use the second method. If the gunpowder technology is handed over, the Khitan will agree to release it."

"Why don't you agree?"

"Your Majesty, you cannot agree. If you really hand over the gunpowder technology and the Khitan releases the people, please forgive me for saying selfish words. I will really hand over the gunpowder technology regardless of Your Majesty's anger."

Zhao Kuangyin was very happy.

"But Weichen is not a fool. He handed over gunpowder technology today, and the Khitan will blackmail me tomorrow, and I will handed over glass technology the day after tomorrow. Maybe one day he won't be blackmailed. Yuping can be executed."

Xiao Yanyan thought of good things, but she underestimated Song Jiu. There were too many such things in later generations. How could a few packs of bad tea be deceived into an old lady in Nanjing for hundreds of thousands of yuan? This is how she cheated her away bit by bit.

Song Jiu said again: "I also learned some news through those merchants. Not only did I not agree to the request of the Khitan queen, but I would not agree to the request of the Yu family. Today I gave 100,000 yuan. The day after tomorrow I would ask me 200,000 yuan. But the wealth also bet on human nature. In the heart of Yuping's biological father, the happiness of his daughter is important, money and silk, or the wife of the Ma family is important, and sent someone to send 50,000 yuan of silk. If Yuping's biological father had the intention, don't talk about Yuping. Even Su Wu, if he had spent so much money, he could bring it back from the desert."

"I guess you will be disappointed."

"I also know, so I ask Your Majesty, after all, you have given her like a wife."

"She is a concubine, how do you ask me to speak? And her biological father has now become a Khitan, and the Khitan has reason to refuse."

"His Majesty……"

"Well, you don't care if I give you an official position, and you don't care if you give you money. But you have done a lot of good things for the court, just think that I give you extra rewards."

"Thank you, Your Majesty," Song Jiu was overjoyed. Don't think that this was a trivial matter, but it was really not easy for Zhao Kuangyin to agree. As long as Zhao Kuangyin spoke, he would receive at least a dozen impeachment memorials. However, after a long time, Song Jiu realized that Zhao Kuangyin agreed not only to give himself a compensation, but also to him need some excuses. After the Southern Tang Dynasty won it, Wu Yue and Fujian Kingdom did not matter. The focus of the Song Dynasty would be in the north, including the Northern Han and the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, but it also required some reasons to turn against the Khitan. This was a killing of two birds with one stone. But at this time, Song Jiu was overjoyed.

"Don't refuse your Duke's Duke. I can only speak with this title, otherwise I will not be able to speak."

"this……"

"But you hope you don't hold it too big. The Khitan is not the Southern Tang Dynasty. They are very powerful. If you don't agree, there is a reason, and I can't do anything about it."

"Your Majesty is so grateful to me for being able to speak for you." Song Jiudao said that he was really serious and said: "Your Majesty, although this technology is almost done, large-scale production is different from testing in the laboratory. Therefore, I suggest that you do not rush to promote it on a large scale. Just like the steel supervisors and the sugar workshops in the south, small-scale trial production will be carried out first. Anyway, almost all copper supervisors are produced in the south, and there is almost no one in the north. Therefore, trial production can be carried out with the current test site. After two years of trial production, more problems will be found, and after maturity, they will be officially put into the south."

"I don't understand this, please write a memorial."

"Here."

Song Jiu left the palace.

A conversation with Zhao Kuangyin brought him a lot of reflection. Zhao Kuangyin said that I could only speak after you have received the Duke of the State. In the past, I thought that I had no official position, and Yu Ping would not attract attention when he went to the Khitan. That might not attract attention. Besides, the Khitan sorted out and governed Youyun from top to bottom, and attached great importance to Han and Ma's big families. Yu Ping went to the Yu family, and the Ma family must have heard that the Khitan could not pay attention? It is precisely because he did not have any official position that the Khitan dared to do it. If he held an important position like Lu Duoxun, the Khitan would not want to do much at this time, and he would have a scruple. This principle is like a murderer who wanted to kill someone. Before he killed him, he would have many ideas. But if he really killed him, he would have killed him. The most important time is before he started. He became a Buddha with one thought and a demon with one thought.

Zhao Kuangyin said again, don’t have too much hope. The Khitan agreed better, but he didn’t agree. Zhao Kuangyin was also not easy to investigate.

But what if he is a high-ranking official like Lu Duosun? Then it can affect the policies of the Song Dynasty, and even in the future when fighting with the Khitan, he can forcibly correct his achievements.

With past achievements, the Khitan may not be as powerful as he remembers, even if the new emperor and the new queen of the Khitan are very awesome.

Holding an important position of a high-ranking official is also beneficial to research, and it will create more conditions for students to study, which is no less than taking the students to work hard. It is also beneficial to the country, just like offering a tariff protection policy. If you have an important position, you will pass it directly. There is no need to say like now. Whether it can be successful depends on luck and Zhao Kuangyin's psychology to decide whether it is successful.

This happened. He suddenly realized that only then did he feel distorted in his mind.

He wanted to be an official in the past, but he was similar to Zhao Pu. It was good to be an official and could control more regimes. But then he figured it out. Being a high-ranking official can not only better protect his family, but also benefit himself, but also for the country.

It is difficult to describe it as sublimation. Selfishness occupies a major position in this, but it is definitely much better than most officials of the Song Dynasty.

Now it's an idea, and he is also hesitant about the next big change. But he is too worried. Zhao Kuangyi has long planned his fate, including the previous suppression, and now he has asked him to offer copper smelting technology...

Thinking all the way, I returned to Pan Mansion.

Pan Lian'er asked, "Official, did Your Majesty agree?"

Tian misunderstood and asked: "Have your Majesty appointed Duke to you?"

If that would be great, the husband is the Duke of the Kingdom and the son-in-law is the Duke of the Kingdom, so he would be very proud. Song Jiu first answered Tian: "I've been granted the title, Duke of Pu."

Although he gave it to the Duke, he did not increase his fief. Just like when he was a waiter, he might be the Duke with the least fief, but he was the Duke in the end. Tian was overjoyed. Song Jiu nodded at Pan Lian'er again, and Pan Lian'er didn't get excited.

But she didn't expect her husband to choose another path.

Tian said again: "If you don't make any rash mistakes and offend many people, your future will be brighter than your father-in-law."

She was very envious. Her husband got fame and fortune, and even though her son-in-law worked hard, the two were completely different in terms of danger.

"That's true, brother-in-law and second brother, you do something for me and tell me a word to the yamen in Hebei. No matter what the festival was before, even if it was Zhao Chengzong's brothers, as long as they were willing, if there were any losses after the workshop in Zhudidian in Hebei fell, I would count it and hand it over to you. If there is a chance in the future, I will make up for them."

"Brother-in-law, Liangzi is bound."

"I have the will to resolve it. If they are not convinced, why bother with them!" Song Jiu snorted coldly.

The great change is coming, the generals begin to decline, and the military officials are about to decline. Most of the parents of the yamen came from these two. If they give them face, what can they do if they don’t give face?

...

The big ship sailed through the calm Bian River, and the waves collided with the bottom of the ship, making a nice sound of music.

Li Yu sat cross-legged in the cabin and said, "Baoyi, go out and take a look, the capital city will be here."

"Okay." Huang Baoyi walked out of the cabin and immediately walked back and said, "Your Majesty, go out and take a look."

"Baoyi, I have become a prisoner and can never call him Your Majesty again, otherwise I will bring death to my family."

"Here."

Li Yu and Xiao Zhou Hou walked out hand in hand. In the past, they held hands, but they called it a good marriage, but now they held hands, but they were quite sad.

Standing at the bow of the boat, the capital was about to arrive, but I was just sailing against the current. The boat was not very fast, but I had already seen the Baiyu Bridge and various beautiful tall buildings in Hezhou. Li Yu was surprised: "How did these houses be built? Why didn't this person value it?"

He refers to Song Jiu's lack of official position. Xu Xuan whispered in a low voice: "Your Majesty, you are wrong. This is the scene outside the Dongshui Gate of Tokyo. It was done by Song Jiu. Although these buildings are for profit, all the money and silk obtained from profit are invested in research and development, so that our Jinling soldiers could fight unintentionally at the top of the city were developed by him using this money and silk. The empress has once discussed with the Emperor of the Song Dynasty. He once asked me, "Our dynasty has 18 million kilograms of iron in a year, and 90% of them have been transformed into quality."

How could you Tang Dynasty fight our dynasty? As far as I know, the amount of iron was only two million kilograms when the Song Dynasty was founded. The Song Dynasty did not use this son. I heard that the court had appointed him as a Duke. The reason why he did not hold an official position for the time being was because he was studying the art of copper smelting, which seemed to have been successful. Once this technique was successful, the people would no longer lack coins, or use iron coins as coins like our country. This is Hezhou, but for civilians. Soon you enter the palace of the Song Dynasty and see its simplicity. This is the real hiding wealth among the people."

If a country is destroyed, it will be useless, but this is the difference. One is to want the country to be rich, the people to be rich, and the other is to want to be rich by yourself. How can we be invincible?

Li Yu was speechless. After a long time, he whispered: "Xu Qing, I regret killing Pan You very much."

"Your Majesty, you killed the wrong person. Pan You said at that time that when this son went south, please ask Your Majesty to win him over. If our country had obtained this son at that time and had the danger of the Yangtze River, and Your Majesty worked hard to govern, how could he not fight with the Song Dynasty?"

"I remembered that Han Xizai also went to Hanyang for this."

Xu Xuan said even more sadly: "Your Majesty, you didn't trust the Northern Minister at that time. Many famous ministers who came to the north were killed by Your Majesty, or demoted them to nothing. Isn't Han Xizai a capable minister? It was because of Your Majesty's forced and even a great talent. The capable ministers who were all proud of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty could only pretend to be crazy and stupid."

Li Yu was speechless.
Chapter completed!