Small hot pot, playing side stove, the best pastime of this season, the weather has been a little abnormal in recent years, the snow disaster in October last year caused no harvest, this year it was also a little extreme cold, but there was no snow, but fortunately the autumn harvest has almost come to an end, and the expected drought did not happen.

Generally speaking, compared with the past few years, this year is indeed better, but this cold is really uncomfortable.

"Last year it snowed heavily, but this year it's cold. I heard that Mr. You from the north said that there was sporadic snow on the grassland last month. Yan Shu rubbed his hands, put a piece of tofu in a bowl, and said softly: "It seems that several tribes in the grassland are going to make big moves this year." ”

Song Beiyun nodded and said: "If it is too early in winter, people will starve to death on the grassland, and they will definitely cross the border to plunder in order not to starve, and maybe they will eat people." ”

Yan Shu sighed: "I feel sorry for the people at the border pass, that was also the people of the Great Song Dynasty." ”

Song Beiyun didn't speak, just frowned and looked at the wonderful words next to him: "Do you think the Mongol Empire will be established in advance?" ”

Miao Yan thought for a while and nodded heavily: "Yes!" ”

If the catastrophe of these two consecutive years makes the various tribes of the steppe integrated in advance, then there will be an extremely terrible cavalry force in the future, under normal circumstances, the Liao State must only be able to attack at most three waves of low-grade offensives, and the fourth wave will inevitably lead to the retreat of the Jin defense, and then the Mongolian tentacles will go deep into the Central Plains, which will gradually form a new balance, that is, the Mongolian, Jin and Liao born in advance.

These three countries will definitely mess up with each other, and if the Great Song Dynasty accelerates the construction of armaments and manpower at this time, maybe it will really be a godsend.

"What are you talking about?"

Faced with Yan Shu's question, Song Beiyun put down the dishes and chopsticks, took a map from the house and spread it on the desk next to him.

Jin drove the Liao State to the Central Plains and beat the Great Song Dynasty, and after the Great Song Dynasty ceded the land and paid compensation, the Liao State reappeared and confronted the Jin State back and forth. But last year's snowstorm caused the steppe people to move south. Song Beiyun circled the boundary of Shanxi: "No, it was the grassland people who came down first, and the Great Song Dynasty was attacked by two parties and had to cede the land and pay compensation." After that, the grassland ate Datong Pass, and the entire Central Plains and Shandong were under the control of the Liao State, and the Jin State was entrenched in the three eastern provinces. That's the state, isn't it? ”

Miao Yan stepped forward and looked around, and nodded lightly: "The Liao Kingdom is like a barrier between the Song Dynasty, the grassland, and the Jin Kingdom. Regardless of whether the Jin State or the future Mongol Empire wanted to invade the Great Song Dynasty, they had to step on the corpse of the Liao State. ”

"Unless the Liao State plays a close-range attack and long-distance diplomacy, and allows Jin and Mongolia to come down through their land, the Great Song Dynasty may have a crisis." Song Beiyun sat there and pondered for a moment: "Da Liao can't fall!" Da Liao fell, and Da Song was cold. ”

"Haha, it's really a relationship between lips and teeth." Yan Shu also stepped forward and watched: "If you were Emperor Song, what would you do?" ”

This sentence was quite rebellious, and Xiao Yu frowned when he heard it, but in the end, after thinking about it, he continued to eat.

"First announced Mongolia and Jin, and poured the country's strength to help Liao." Song Beiyun slapped one hand directly on the map: "Liao Guo took out minerals, and our production equipment fed back to him, this method can give the Great Song Dynasty another ten years." ”

"Why Xuan Mongolia?" Miao Yan squinted his eyes and thought about it, and then slapped his hand: "I understand, it's the old-fashioned combination of vertical and horizontal, inbred and long-range attacks." But if you don't send troops, push the Liao State to the front, and let the Three Kingdoms form a balance, then the Great Song Dynasty will actually have a chance to become the side that breaks the balance. ”

"In international politics, people who want to eat and live in the west must not end well." Song Beiyun tapped on the map: "Is the Liao State an enemy?" Enemies, of course, but what did Palmerston say? ”

"There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests." Miao Yan nodded: "Give Liao a way to maximize the interests of the country, and he will never be able to take risks and do something unreliable." ”

When Yan Shu was listening, his brain was not idle, his core processor was running rapidly, although he didn't understand a lot of words, but he was such a smart person, he probably understood it and knew the meaning.

When he looked at the map again, he also had his own thoughts, so he coughed lightly: "If you can give Da Song another ten years, it can't be said that there will be a great change." It's just that this law can't make those civil servants disdainful. ”

"What is despicable, 10 percent of the profits created here go into their pockets, you see they are still despicable." Song Beiyun touched his chin and said, "The Great Song Dynasty has the most advanced iron-smelting technology and the largest number of craftsmen, as well as the highest literacy rate in the whole of Asia, which is the advantage. Importing resources to export finished products and using technology to earn the difference in prices not only hoards resources but also catalyzes the industry, and can also create a shield for itself. Why not? ”

"But sooner or later, one day the Liao State will ......" Yan Shu's expression was solemn: "What if the Liao State, which is strong and strong, turns against each other?" ”

Song Beiyun straddled the chair and paused for a long time before slowly speaking: "Bet on the national fortune." ”

A good sentence to bet on the national fortune, he didn't say what the national fortune is betting on, but just these three sentences are enough to make people's blood boil, the Great Song Dynasty has no way out, and then there is the vast sea, but if it continues like this, the number of Qi in the Great Song Dynasty will be at most twenty years, and the national strength will be exhausted after twenty years, but in this way, it is really a good way.

"Okay, let's eat first, you can discuss this kind of thing with your superiors." Miao Yan said with a smile: "Isn't the current crisis the birthday of the Empress Dowager?" Song Beiyun, are you ready for something? But there are still two days to go. ”

"Of course it's ready." Song Beiyun circled his fingers twice: "But keep it secret now." ”

When Yan Shu heard this, he said thoughtfully: "What do you want to prepare for the birthday of the Empress Dowager, and you are not a dignitary...... I'm sorry, my husband, forgive my clumsiness. ”

"Go, go, go." Song Beiyun chased the flies: "What did Zhao Xiang do when he looked for you last time?" ”

"I don't quite understand it, but they called me over and asked questions, which was annoyingly tight. I talked about what poetry and songs for a long time, I think it's to win me over as a protégé, I don't care, I fancy his daughter and not him, his ideas, I can do it. ”

When others say this, they must brag, but Yan Shu says this, and it is absolutely fine. He himself is a talent who dominates the world, and his ability to know how to make good use of people is first-class, and his students take out any one of them to shock the ancient and modern, including himself is also a big man in the past and the present.

But since he is eyeing other people's daughters and still treating his father-in-law with this attitude, isn't it a bit too much?

"That's right."

Back at the dinner table, several people continued to eat, Yan Shu seemed to have a soft spot for tofu and mutton, the bowl was full of these two things, and when he heard Song Beiyun's call, he raised his head: "Huh? ”

Song Beiyun poured himself a glass of rice wine: "I think you should be a Beijing official like me, and I won't send you out under normal circumstances, what are your plans?" ”

"I can do it all." Yan Shu said nonchalantly: "Isn't it just to be an official, it's like child's play, but listening to Zhao Xiang's meaning, he said that after the Spring Festival, he would settle me in Taichang Temple as the main bookkeeper." Just where do you want to go? ”

"Ministry of Works." Song Beiyun blurted out: "I just want to go to the Ministry of Industry, and I won't go anywhere." ”

"Ministry of Works? You're going to build a latrine for someone? ”

"Xiaoyu, beat him first."

"Don't, don't." Yan Shu waved his hand again and again: "Just talk about it, why do you want to go to the Ministry of Industry?" In my opinion, it's okay for people like you to go directly to Nashangshu Province, but they will die faster, and there is nothing wrong with it. ”

Song Beiyun smiled while wiping the chopsticks on the clean rag a few times, and Yan Shu hid aside with the bowl: "Which is better than the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of War, and the Nine Temples are also OK, why do you want to go to the Ministry of Industry." ”

"I'm glad I take care of you."

"That's it, it's like playing the piano to a cow with you." Yan Shu sighed and said, "Good seedlings, I'm going to build a toilet with someone." ”

Of course, the Ministry of Industry is not a latrine, it is roughly equivalent to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Forestry, the National Development and Reform Commission and a series of other functional units.

The reason why Yan Shu would ridicule like this, in fact, in the final analysis, is the contempt of the scholars of this era for the workers, and the second-to-last among the Shinong industrialists and industrialists, most of them are reluctant to deal with craftsmen, because of the low grade.

This is why China, which has a super long standby life, has never appeared a few scientific giants who can change the world, not that the Chinese can't do it, but the society really doesn't pay attention to this doorway. Many things were actually born in China earlier than Western societies, even hundreds of years earlier, but they always inexplicably stagnate or disappear.

In the final analysis, it's not because the inheritance is broken, and why the inheritance is broken, to put it bluntly, it is not taken seriously.

Song Beiyun had already discussed with Miaoyan that he wanted to go to the Ministry of Industry, what was the reason? It's not the Song Beiyun Science Award that I have been thinking about.

If you want to improve the recognition of industry and science in society, why don't you buy horse bones? What else.

Therefore, the Ministry of Industry is Song Beiyun's best choice, and if he goes to the Ministry of Industry, his R&D plan can be justified and implemented, as long as he gets the approval, he is reasonable and legal, and no one will take care of his regular explosives manufacturer.

Before his products were first put into war, no one would care what such an idle man was doing.

And when his stuff is put into the war......

Who cares?