Chapter 232 The First City That Never Sleeps

Western Xia no longer exists, and it has become a state of the Great Song Dynasty, and it was simply temporarily named Xiazhou according to Zhao Zhi, but it still needs to be digested slowly. Fortunately, because of Li Yuanhao's absurdity and immorality, the Great Song Dynasty has money, so Western Xia is quite stable.

To be precise, the inclusion of Western Xia in the Great Song Dynasty was a money-losing business, because the Western Xia was too poor to be compared with the Great Song Dynasty, but at the same time, the strategic location of the Western Xia was something that money could not buy.

And there are war horses in Western Xia, which can be slowly coordinated in the future.

As for Tubo, because of the capture of 100,000 iron horsemen of Liao, the death of Yelu Longxu, the emperor of Liao, and the inclusion of Western Xia in the Great Song Dynasty, there were originally a few thorns, and they couldn't help but be honest.

Dali in the southwest, because of the killing of monks in the Great Song Dynasty, it is obviously impossible to let the monks go if the Great Song Dynasty wants to let the monks go, even the monks of Liao, Xixia, and Tubo have been killed, how can they let go of the monks in Dali?

It seems that the only remaining enemy of the Great Song Dynasty is the Liao State in the north, and the Tanyuan Alliance has already existed in name only because of Zhao Zhi's loyalty to the country.

Tomorrow's Song-Liao battle, another battle is inevitable, and it is a decisive battle between the two countries, no matter which side is defeated, it will never be the former Tanyuan Alliance, once defeated, I am afraid it will be a disaster for the country.

But let the Liao State submit to the Great Song Dynasty? Obviously also impossible.

Let the Great Song Dynasty continue to submit to the Liao State and pay the Liao State an annual New Year's coin? If it was before, it was possible, but the Great Song Dynasty under the general Zhao Zhi obviously would never surrender to any country again.

So the whole world seems to have calmed down, but at the same time it is still turbulent, and a new storm is brewing.

Zhao Zhizi also knew that everything had changed, and the history of later generations would have little reference value, and at the same time, he was constantly releasing the Great Song Dynasty's Chazi to investigate all the news of the surrounding neighboring countries.

So Zhao Zhi got up early every day and went directly to work at the No. 1 Guard, each time he was escorted by three thousand iron cavalry, and he was even stationed on the road for thirty miles of the Imperial City Guard, which was completely protected like an iron pass, and it was impossible to assassinate him.

And when he went to work in the health center during the day, of course, he was mainly responsible for opening up the minds of the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty, but there was more than one kind of gunpowder, as well as picric acid, nitroglycerin, smokeless gunpowder, thunder mercury, nitrocellulose, and double-base explosives.

Picric acid is a synthetic yellow crystal that can be used to hold cannonballs.

By dry distillation of saltpeter, nitric acid can be produced, and cotton soaked in nitric acid can cause an explosion and make firing medicine.

But there is no need for Zhao Zhi to study at all, as long as Zhao Zhi opens a line of thought, the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty seem to have been opened a window, and they can be easily developed.

As a result, from the second day after Zhao Zhi returned to Bianjing City, the No. 1 guard station in the east of Bianjing City began to roar continuously, and even the ground could be felt shaking when it was a little closer.

Gunpowder explosives are the artifact of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Zhizi will not let go of it in the first place, as long as all kinds of explosives are developed, the Great Song Dynasty is invincible, no matter how many iron horses come, they can blow it up.

At the same time, on the other hand, it is obvious that the circulation of coins in the Great Song Dynasty has become inconvenient, because the Great Song Dynasty is too rich! At least Tingyulou still maintains a daily income of two million coins.

It is no longer enough to describe what is going on every day, so the income of millions of dollars a day is all metal, either gold or silver, but there is nothing, but after all, it is also a little inconvenient.

Therefore, on the first day of work, Zhao Zhi not only arranged to instruct the production of gunpowder, but also needed to pay close attention to the development of papermaking, which must be made of paper that is difficult to imitate so that it can be used to issue banknotes.

Jiaozi in history, the first issuance of real silver tickets, but it was Liu Moth, a generation of virtuous queens, Zhao Zhizi couldn't let the silver tickets of the Great Song Dynasty disappear because of his appearance.

And once the paper that is difficult to imitate is developed, it can start to issue the banknotes of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is not much more convenient to print money with paper than real money? Moreover, the banknotes issued by himself can definitely gain the trust of the people and businessmen of the Great Song Dynasty, just because he is the general Zhao Zhi.

Then gunpowder, paper money, and at the same time, the 100,000 iron cavalry captives of the Liao State also began to pave the roads in Bianjing City every day under the command of Bao Zheng, and all the roads were paved with cement bricks, which were completely free labor, and only needed to be fed.

At the same time, countless workshops and factories in the suburbs of Bianjing City also began to rise, there were arsenals and workshops under the imperial city guard, of course, the main production was military uniforms and the like, and gunpowder and the like could not be produced outside, but there were heavy guards to guard the production step by step.

The Great Song Dynasty has not only completely changed the sky, but the entire Great Song Dynasty is also undergoing earth-shaking changes every day.

Zhao Zhi went to work at the No. 1 Health Station at two o'clock every day, and went home early or late at night to rest, enjoying the real blessings of Qi people, and never going anywhere else.

Occasionally, I will sneak into the palace at night and touch the bed of the Queen Mother Liu Moth, since there is only one door between the back house and the harem, if you don't climb into the bed of the Queen Mother Liu Mo in the middle of the night, how sorry is that door?

The result was a month in the blink of an eye.

Except for the day when he was crowned a general, Zhao Zhi seemed to disappear and never appeared again.

However, the sudden activation of Bianjing City Tingyulou made the hundred officials and the merchants of Bianjing City, and even the merchants and officials of the whole world know that the general is really about to create an unprecedented prosperous era of the Great Song Dynasty! Far beyond the real prosperity of the strong man and the Tang Dynasty!

The disappearance of the general, but it is not some faint general play, but is constantly busy with some things every day, just from the fact that a new product appears every few days in Tingyulou.

The glass, mirrors, soap, Jiuliangye, including women's beauty and skin products, know that everything must be related to the general, but the general is a real genius and ghost.

Rule? There is no need for the general to govern in person, only the general's woman, the empress dowager Liu Mo, can subdue all the hundred officials in Bianjing City and the officials of the whole world.

At the same time, Fan Zhongyan is also preparing for a reform, ready to give the officials of the Great Song Dynasty a ruthless knife, the generals have already made bold moves to create the prosperous era of the Great Song Dynasty, and Fan Zhongyan has not been idle.

But even if Ouyang Xiu and Fu Bi were both arrested, there were almost no officials in Bianjing City who were idle, including Kaifeng Mansion Yin, who was about to retire, and they all had to help Bao Zheng command 100,000 prisoners to pave the way for Bianjing City.

On the contrary, in comparison, it seems that Zhao Zhi has become the most idle person, of course, he is not idle at all, but he has no time to appear in front of hundreds of officials, and he still enjoys the blessings of Qi people almost every night, and occasionally stays in the palace for one night.

Sometimes once you are too busy, you simply sleep in the No. 1 guard, because once you determine a certain goal, you can't settle down without completing Zhao Zhi. That was the first electric light that made the Great Song Dynasty! The next step is to make Bianjing the first city that never sleeps in the world!

As a result, he participated in the daily participation for more than a month, and finally made two major achievements on this day, and at the same time received a secret report from the Liao State.