"Dad, you don't seem to wash your hands." I was listening to Hong Tao's vernacular language just now. Hong Jinhe didn't eat much at all. While his father left, he just picked up a crab and didn't eat a few bites. He really couldn't bear to let it go.

"I don't use my fingers to wipe my butt, don't forget my original name as soon as I become an official. There are no outsiders here, so there is no need to care too much. Do you guys care? Oh, that's right. I'm not clean and eat it without any illness. Come on, don't be idle, one person, no waste. This is my son caught it himself and must be eaten up!" Hong Jinhe's words were considered to have stabbed the hornet's nest. Everyone here could avoid it, but now it's over. Emperor Hong personally set a crab for everyone, and it's impossible not to eat it.

"The personnel problem is not difficult, but I want to ask more. Are you planning to use grassroots officials of the empire to help you manage the Song Dynasty? Are you not afraid that they will secretly contact the empire and completely shake the reality of the Song Dynasty?" Yi Yi's most thief. He just held the crab and kept talking. In order to make his actions more reasonable, he could only keep talking and not talk nonsense.

"There is a big deal of the truth of the Song Dynasty. Even if there is one, it has been cleared by the Supervision Department. You don't need to contact us secretly. That would be too troublesome. I allow the Imperial Supervision Department to establish a contact point in each city. Just do it openly. As long as it is not too out of line, it will be done. If anyone dares to do it, pray not to let me catch it. As long as I catch it, I will light the sky lantern for them all on the dock!" Hong Tao sneered at Yi Yi's concern. Is there anything else that can be hidden from others? Since it is gone, what's the point of hiding it? What's important now is not how to prevent the Jinhe Empire, but how to control the situation of the Song Dynasty with the help of the Jinhe Empire. Under this premise, other problems are not problems.

"What about the second one?" Yi Yi still didn't want to eat the crab in his hand, so he couldn't keep his mouth idle.

"Second, I need the empire to lend me about 5,000 troops, as a mobile unit, and I will be responsible for my logistics supply." Yi Yi suddenly became so proactive, and Hong Tao also felt something was wrong. He stared at him for a few seconds, reached out and snatched the crabs in his hand, and didn't eat them, and ate them by himself.

"This is not a big deal." Yi Yi was a little embarrassed by Hong Tao's thoughts, so he didn't get too entangled with this issue.

"There is a third! I need you to tell the Straits Company to disband themselves and stop mixing up with me again. If they can trust me, just do their business honestly. The court's move to the capital is wiped out, and they don't mention what they think. This is impossible. If they don't believe me, don't blame me for being too stubborn. I will send a ship to sink the sea ships in Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Quanzhou and Qiongzhou, and no one can think of it. In this matter, can the imperial government be truly neutral and stop interfering in the internal affairs of the Song Dynasty?" Another very difficult problem when I came back to rule the Song Dynasty this time is the Straits Company. Now this organization has gone further and further from the road to fighting for its own rights and interests, and has become a tool for some people to fight for power and profit. Hong Tao himself cannot completely solve them, and he still has to rely on the help of the Jinhe Empire.

"This is the imperial government can stop providing support to the Straits Company, but it may be a bit difficult to completely control them." After Yi Yi heard the conditions proposed by Hong Tao, he involuntarily glanced at Hong Jinhe. The private agreement between them and Wen Hao was not approved by the Imperial Parliament, not to hide it from the parliament, but to the time being. Now that Hong Tao has told him that he can't make any decision on this matter alone.

"It's a big difficulty! I don't need to investigate who is behind the Straits Company. I can figure it out with my toes. If there is no support and promise from the empire, those marshals may dare to do this in another fifty years, but they absolutely dare not. Jinhe, I don't care about any private agreements with Wenhao, so I should not continue to implement them. Wenhao is not something you can deal with. He will sooner or later become a big trouble for the empire. Originally, you were trying to reduce costs in the pursuit of the Song Dynasty, and colluding with him was a way, but now you can't use him anymore, so why don't you give him to me, Premier Wen and I will deal with him. By the way, is he here?" Hong Tao clearly stated in his letter to Hong Jinhe that he would bring Wenhao to negotiate, but when he came, he just thought about seeing his son and forgot about the material.

"Okay, we agree with your conditions. He is in the fleet. I don't think you like to see him very much, so I arranged it on another ship." On the question of whether to cooperate with Wenhao or with his father, Hong Jinhe quickly gave the answer. Wenhao was ruthlessly abandoned, not even a hypocritical plea, and obviously did not care about his life or death.

"Jinhe, don't stand up for this in the future. You are the emperor of the empire and the spiritual sustenance of the people of the empire. You must make yourself pure and flawless. Even if you have to do dirty work, you should be done by Prime Minister Yi's government. Anyone in the empire can resign. They themselves have the obligation to take the blame for national interests, but you don't have it, and the empire emperor cannot be elected. Is this the truth, Prime Minister Yi?" Although his son agreed to his request, Hong Tao couldn't be happy. His son is still too young and he doesn't think comprehensively about many details.

"You are right. This matter has nothing to do with Your Majesty. I will make a clear explanation to the parliament when I go back." Yi Yi's face turned green. Although Hong Tao was very subtle and the truth was correct, just saying it in front of him was too direct and hurting self-esteem. What's more, Speaker Wang was on the side, and he had already started glaring at him.

"Then will the negotiations between us be completed successfully? You two Prime Ministers will slowly consider the rest of the details, and I just need to worry about the correct direction." Unconsciously, Hong Tao has replaced Hong Jinhe's master position and has become the one who controls the overall situation.

"I have no problem. If I ask Prime Minister Wen, I will mean the rest of the matter, His Majesty and Speaker Wang?" Yi Yi wanted Hong Jinhe to take the initiative back, but he also knew that this was a bit difficult, so he didn't force it.

"I have no problem either." Speaker Wang actually has no problem at all. He is responsible for voting issues and is not responsible for solving problems or discovering problems.

"I have a problem!" Hong Jinhe was very depressed. He was supposed to be the one who decided by himself. After eating a crab, he had nothing to do. Even if the opponent was his own father, he couldn't swallow his breath.

"Oh! Your Majesty has any questions, just mention them!" Hong Tao looked at Hong Jinhe with a slanted eye, and three words were engraved on his son's face: Unhappy!

"The Empire needs a warship. A warship like yours is now not allowed to be dismantled! Since you said that it would not cause a maritime threat to the Empire, it should not be a problem to provide your new weapon for the Empire to study and research, right?" Hong Jinhe was no longer negotiating with the heads of other countries, and became a deliberately embarrassing his father. He believed that Hong Tao's main reliance on this time was these strange warships and new naval guns on the warships. If his father was so easily taken over by his own father, wouldn't he seem to be an imperial emperor without any ability? He must prove it to him that he is not a waste.

"" Yi Yi was very pleased. This problem was well-proven, very reasonable, and very fatal.

If Hong Tao refuses to use warships for exchange, it means he has other plans. Negotiation with the Empire is just a cover. Even if the two parties will cooperate in the end, the degree will be different. If Hong Tao agrees to this condition, the Empire will not suffer any losses. Who doesn’t know that the warships and naval guns created by the old emperor must be good things? Once the Empire has physical objects, it will be copied soon. At that time, I really don’t have any other troubles to the old emperor.

"I'll come back to mess with your good things, and you can't spare me, right? Well, good son, I hope you are better than your father. I'll give you a warship. You can pick one of your father except my flagship. But you are not a person who is willing to suffer losses. These ships and guns are all the hard work of your Grandpa Qi and Uncle Wen for half your life. If you want to take it away with just one word, I'm sorry for their labor. So, the imperial government has provided technology, equipment, and the Song Dynasty has contributed to building a large smelter and forging factory here. We'll be even, how about it?" Hong Tao finally put down the crab in his hand, took out a cigar and lit it, and took several sips before he agreed to Hong Jinhe's conditions. But it was not in vain, it was a condition.

Hong Tao's performance made Hong Jinhe and Yi Yi extremely excited, and finally stumped their opponents once. For the Jinhe Empire, it was a big profit for the Jinhe Empire. The Song Dynasty did not have steel mills, but there was one on Hainan Island with Hong Tao and Qi Zu. Moreover, with Hong Tao and Qi Zu, the Song Dynasty's steel mills would develop very quickly, which was unlimited by the empire. However, a new technology, especially the new technology for naval shipbuilding and casting cannons, is a very critical thing for the Jinhe Empire based on the ocean.

"This place is still a border area. Although the Mongols moved north, there is still no population here. Why do we build the steel factory here?" But when Hong Jinhe and Yi Yi saw the location pointed out by Hong Tao on the map, they were a little confused. What is this place? In the north bank of the Bohai Bay, except for the people from the Imperial Supervision Department and the old sailors who fought with Emperor Hong, I am afraid that few people in the empire know what that place looks like. All information comes from intelligence personnel.

To be continued.
Chapter completed!