Chapter 286: Sailing Ambition
The identity of the prince does not seem to be important, but it is actually very important, Zhao Xin really wants to withdraw from the competition for the throne, no other methods will work, he must get out with fake death, as long as he is in the royal family, after clearing his name, then there is a problem in terms of rationality.
Zhao Xin is very clear about this, before, when he didn't give up this identity, he avoided letting Sun Ji escape from the Northern Song Dynasty with him, that's it, there was really a little omission, and he was caught by the other party, but this question has a huge problem.
Not to mention the method of dying, removing the name on the jade butterfly, in this case, even if Ren Zongming knew that he was a son, there was no way to push him up, which is equivalent to saying that he jumped out of the quagmire of this throne inheritance.
It seems that the nightmare has an impact on him, as long as he passes through Renzong, after faking his death, he is not still Renzong's child, he is his own flesh and blood, which cannot be erased by anything, but he can skip this competition and have a stable chance of development.
This opportunity must be grasped, and even this opportunity must be well planned.
Miaojiazhuang is too small and too close to the inland, even if there is a well-developed water transportation in the Haihe River basin and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, it is not enough to show his ability.
Then naturally, he had to choose a coastal area as a development, with the card system, the support of Renzong, and the insight of the traverser, he could not develop.
Just like the Taiko of Japan's Warring States Period, even if he was born poor and had enough strength, he was still the co-master, but it was nominally a grade lower.
Traverser and card system, the crushing formed together, can not push him to that position, really has invincible strength, such as the popularization of thermal weapons, and even flintlock pistols and artillery, can it still fail, the result is definitely not.
The more Zhao Xin thought about it, the happier he became, and this seemed to be the only way to change the status quo.
In this Baozhou mutiny, he felt more and more that he was not enough space for the problem of insufficient strength now, and after barely getting out the cement and fortress, and then in-depth research, whether it was muskets, artillery, or steel, etc., would take a long time to study, and he also wanted to see what kind of changes would be made after the card system was combined with the entire Northern Song Dynasty.
The contradiction has been completely intensified, the two sides are almost irreconcilable, the Wang family that has been exposed, and even Wang Deyong, who has been on the ship, must be close to all methods to deal with Zhao Xin, because Renzong may not be terrible, but a successor, after succeeding to the throne, will attack their Wang family, and he Wang Deyong will be dying of old age by then, and if one is not good, the entire Wang family will be wiped out.
Not to mention the main messenger behind him, the head of the mutiny has been opened, and next, there will be even more mutiny, the other party can do anything for this throne, but he can't, he loves this land, and he loves the people on this land, and even the hundreds of thousands of losses in Baozhou, he can remember it on his head, not to mention let the Northern Song Dynasty smoke everywhere.
Historically, the Northern Song Dynasty did not have large-scale rebellions and peasant wars, the reason was the control of the Northern Song Dynasty, but there was such an internal factor, their unscrupulous destruction, quantitative change will sooner or later become qualitative change, when the real north is a sieve, and the spark can start a prairie fire, perhaps, the Northern Song Dynasty will perish earlier than in history.
This is a dead knot, a dead knot that can only be untied if he withdraws this step, as long as he jumps out, let history return to history, and let this heir to the throne still hang in the air, so that their goals can be shifted, and they will not use the method of destroying and breaking through the bottom line.
According to what he remembered, Renzong was able to reign for at least nearly 20 years, and Renzong reigned for 41 years, which can be said to be the longest reign among most emperors.
20 years of development is not enough for Zhao Xin to have overwhelming things, relatively speaking, the things brought by the throne are nothing at all, even Zhao Kuangyin can be dressed in a yellow robe, he is a prince with red roots, why can't he.
The Northern Song Dynasty's military control was very strong, perhaps in exchange for it, he could have a certain amount of self-protection force, but it would never be much, and the self-protection force would be very strictly controlled.
This is not a restriction on the other side, although they will have some embankments, but the entire system of the Northern Song Dynasty, even if he can be divided into cities, there is no problem in people's livelihood, and in terms of military, it must be restricted.
This is determined by the system of the Northern Song Dynasty, throughout the entire Northern Song Dynasty, there have not been many mutinies, even the ranks of the generals who led the troops were limited to a small number.
Even if one person fights ten, 3,000 people, or even 5,000 people, he can't fight the country, but why did Zhao Xin put his troops on land, and even said that he would definitely not exceed the limit when he was on land.
In this way, Zhao Xin has the ability to add a yellow robe, of course, the result is that the reason why he chose the seaport is that the sea is broader, and maritime trade represents more money than land trade, and it also represents a broader market.
Almost inevitably, the new city is going to carry out industrial reform, and the productivity that has erupted from industrial production is terrible to the extreme, although it will be backed by the market of the Great Song Dynasty, but when the overproductivity is under the premise, output is the only choice.
At the same time, the sea is also another place for reserve forces, and the strength of the navy began to be manifested after it became a living force.
In the 21st century, there is a documentary called The Rise of Great Powers, which is affiliated with several countries from Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, Japan and the United States.
This is the world's mainstream power, but they are not vast, the population is large, the first few countries Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the back of Japan, are not a big country, in terms of population and location, they belong to some insignificant small countries, why will they rise, a fundamental reason, is the arrival of the Maritime Century.
Spain is only a big country, he is the first empire on which the sun never sets, and then Portugal and especially the Netherlands, which is just a small land, but it became a coachman on the sea.
That's right, a new industry will bring up a terrible area, the navigation industry is like this, as a mainland country, the Northern Song Dynasty, did not realize at all how far the navigation industry can go, for a relatively small land, the sea, is boundless.
Not to mention, not far away, there is also Taiwan, down the Korean Peninsula, a series of islands, as long as they develop, will become his natural base.
This point, not to mention the forces behind it, can't think of it, those slaughterers, those who stand out in history, and the proud sons of heaven who stand out in history, will not think of it.
A ship is an excellent mobile weapon platform, with the help of navigation, overseas bases, reserve troops, and train soldiers, it will not be noticeable at all, and the terrible benefits of maritime trade will easily cover up the numbers.
The control of the Northern Song Dynasty is two-sided, on the one hand, it is seen, and on the other hand, it is from the money and grain, when these two aspects cannot be controlled, the final result is doomed, when tens of millions of sailing ships, carrying tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of troops, return to land, who can stop it.
It is even said that Zhao Xin's goal is farther, the Liao State is only in the Western Mountains at dusk, and even the Western Xia is just a clown who jumps off the beam, as long as the Northern Song Dynasty popularizes the fortress and has the longbow and the fortress, the border troubles of the Western Xia are basically a joke.
In the era of cold weapons, even the Great Song Dynasty, which was good at siege cities, prepared all kinds of mature siege equipment, and under the premise of ten times that of the defenders, they could not capture the fortress, what did the Western Xia have, even if it was a fortress that consumed 5,000 people, the Western Xia could capture 10, or 20.
The elite troops, the loss of thirty or twenty thousand, is enough to make them slump, take the three wars of the founding of the country as an example, what they encountered was an indecisive commander, really changed to a slightly cold-blooded one, desperately consumed, not entangled in the loss of one city and one place, mainly to annihilate the living forces, when this ratio reached one to one, or even one to two, the Western Xia, a small country, compared with the Northern Song Dynasty.
Maybe this kind of consumption will be a little larger, and the instant compensation will make it very difficult for the Northern Song Dynasty, but the Northern Song Dynasty will solve the problem once and for all, a decisive battle, with 400,000 casualties, in exchange for about 200,000 elites in the Western Xia, which is enough to make the Western Xia dare not commit the border again for 20 years.
Western Xia and Liao are not a problem, so the farther north, is Zhao Xin must see, before the development of the navigation industry, the Northern Song Dynasty could not have such a vision, nor can there be such an opportunity, can not cross from the Liao and Western Xia, but as long as the development of the navigation industry, this has become a reality.
From the Shandong Peninsula, through the Bohai Sea, into the Liaodong Peninsula, the narrowest point, may only be thirty or forty kilometers, and even bypassing the Korean Peninsula, directly between the white mountains and black waters, is only one or two thousand kilometers, which is not a very long voyage.
The rising Jin country in the future, as well as the rising Mongolia, this is the big trouble, with the navigation industry, they can attack across islands or even across continents, those warriors who are completely inexperienced, just soldiers who guard merchant ships, they have no experience, and their combat effectiveness is not strong, but when these warriors, in the north, with the stronger Jurchen and Mongolia, on the mainland, have a frontal fight, and train a team of blood and fire, what else is his opponent.
If he can really go from north to south, destroy the Liao State, destroy the Western Xia, what reason is there, he does not take this throne, what legitimacy, what ethics, in the face of absolute power, it does not exist, with a million troops, the destruction of the Western Xia and the Liao State, this is a great military achievement, even if it is to remember the annals of history, the slaughterers will promote all this.
He is the son of Renzong, as long as he reaches a certain level of slaughter, he will know about this matter, and from Renzong's next reaction, he will know that Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu will definitely know, and if they know, it will spread in a small area.