Chapter 240: Wind and Water

Before there were no trains, no highways and other fast means of transportation, water transportation was the most convenient and fast way, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was the same, he connected the whole of China, the most important five rivers, the entire Northern Song Dynasty essence of the region, all into it, to promote mutual contact.

The commercial development of the Northern Song Dynasty has nothing to do with the water transportation of the canal, and the transportation must be convenient in any commercially developed society, otherwise, from one place to another, the transportation cost is several times the value of the goods, and there will be no profit from sales.

The journey of about 700 miles, if you use a boat, it may take more than 20 days, but fortunately, Zhao Xin gave a lot of money, day and night, it may be reached in 10 days at most, and the efficiency is much higher than on land.

Before setting off, Zhao Xin also specially used fast horses, even if it was a distance of 200 miles a day, it only took two or three days to arrive at the Daimyo's Mansion, and they would arrive seven or eight days earlier than the entire fleet, and Wang Song, who was now in the Daimyo, was responsible for settling down in advance.

The Daimyo's Mansion is very prosperous, but it is not an easy thing to settle down more than a thousand blacksmiths and laborers, since the last time he passed through the Daimyo, Zhao Xin asked Wang Song to prepare, and now it is almost there, according to the previous communication, the location has been found, and the construction is being intense, striving to wait until they arrive, they can move in directly.

During this period of time, Wang Song was in the Daimyo's Mansion, not only did his status improve, but he also ushered in a lot of them.

Money can't make absolute, but no money is absolutely impossible, the special environment of the Northern Song Dynasty has greatly improved the status of businessmen compared to before, but the most noble is still the official, Wang Song as a subordinate, at least explain the subordinate on the surface, his identity, will rise with the identity of Miao Ding.

Before, before going to Haizhou, Miao Ding's identity was just the founding marquis, the signboard of Baozhou Hou, used to deter Xiaoxiao, this is no problem, ordinary families can't afford to provoke such a powerful person at all, but a little higher, or a little related to some larger families, will not care too much.

They are the backbone of the magnates, and they are also the largest number of people, it is impossible for them to know the true identity of Miao Ding, Baozhou Hou is just a basis on an equal footing with them, if you want to value it, it is impossible, some of the first-line generals who have withdrawn, the ancestors are even the founding princes, a post-sealed founding prince, what is the matter.

In such a short period of time, Zhao Xin's status has changed, from Baozhou Hou to Dinghai Hou, there is no change in rank, and he is still the founding marquis, but the previous position has changed, and he is the envoy of the Dinghai Navy.

The Tang Dynasty's Jiedu envoy can be said to be a powerful party, so a series of consequences caused by the Northern Song Dynasty made the Northern Song Dynasty quite vigilant about the Jiedu envoy, and the fiefdom of the general Jiedu envoy will not be very large, and it is still between the major avenues, faintly playing a role in monitoring and restricting.

Because of this, with precautions, the management of the festival envoy is also much relaxed, a section degree envoy, not a false title but the substance of the kind, not only the status is very high, no matter what the size of the navy is, the section degree envoy is a transfer envoy level.

To a certain extent, the knots are even greater than the transfer of the knots, and in the actual knots, like the Tang Dynasty, they are also the military and political grasps, and the importance of internal control and power is even higher.

Now, even if he doesn't have the identity of the second prince, just relying on Zhao Xin's own status is enough to gain a firm foothold in the Daimyo's Mansion, and some people may not have asked for the degree of moderation, and they will not offend such a high-ranking and powerful guy.

In this case, these magnates really paid attention to Dinghaihou, not to mention discovering the steamed buns and soaps that swept the entire Daimyo Mansion, which were all from this side, as well as divine weapons.

The influence of the magic weapon is a little greater than the steamed buns, the steamed buns are just the food of the people at the bottom, the amount is very large, and it is also very profitable, but the concealment is too good, no one will know that the steamed buns for a few pennies will have such a big profit after gathering sand into a tower.

People ignore it, precisely because he has too much, in life, which is also the misunderstanding of thinking, everyone thinks that jewelry and jade are the most profitable, yes, their turnover is high, as long as they are sold, one is thousands, or even 100,000 million, but how many such sales can be.

The magic weapon is the jewelry and jade of the Northern Song Dynasty, which is even more eye-catching than the jewelry and jade, and the 4 weapons are ten thousand, this is not a fantasy, this is a real existence.

Although the Northern Song Dynasty advocated literature, but the status of the military generals was only not high in the court, unlike the concentration of the capital, the Daimyo Mansion as the key to the north to resist the Liao State, the Jiangmen was quite concentrated, in addition to the top generals and relatives of the Northern Song Dynasty, the vast majority of the second-line generals and ordinary families of the second generals were in the Daimyo's Mansion.

The power of the Northern Song Dynasty was in the hands of civil officials, and after the civil officials were honored, the management was relatively strict, and the ethics of scholars and doctors could not be greedy, but for military officials.

Since the beginning of Taizu's cup of wine and military power, money has become the pursuit of most of them, and to a certain extent, there is a very high ceiling, beyond this ceiling, you should be sensible and retreat bravely, when the time comes, a large number of rewards and money are enough for you to become a rich man.

The same is true for some generals, they have been officials for a long time, and they are more familiar with the political environment of the Northern Song Dynasty, they have not developed more in the military at all, and they have gone to business and made money when they reach a certain level.

3 months and 4 magic weapons, this is the number set by Zhao Xin, in fact, some underestimate the consumption level of the Daimyo's mansion, at the same time, at the beginning of the first time, this magic weapon has not yet shown its strength, just simple operation and pursuit.

But later, after being bought, many of its effects began to appear, people are social animals, what do you do when you buy treasures, showing off, I have you or not, is the essence of showing off.

For weapons, the most basic show off is to show its performance, sharpening iron like mud, this is only the most basic, the key is that the top step armor of the Great Song Dynasty can't stop this magic weapon at all, as long as you use a little force, you can cut off the step armor.

This is not an ordinary function, it was used as a weapon before, but it was based on blowing short hair and sharpening iron like clay.

The former is easy to achieve, some very sharp weapons, or it is unavoidable, it can still achieve this, sharpening iron like mud is somewhat exaggerated, at most it is to cut gold, and it is a little difficult to break jade, not to mention the standard armor, it is almost difficult to hear of, and the weapons that can easily cut off the armor, even if there are, are all treasured.

As the most powerful defensive weapon in the entire Northern Song Dynasty, the Buren armor is known as the armor that can never be penetrated, such an armor is easily penetrated by this divine weapon, and it is completely undamaged.

To be able to become a powerful person and become a member of the upper echelons of the Daimyo's Mansion, which one is not a human spirit, and which one is not clear-headed, it will soon be seen from the top of the 4 together, it is mass-produced, at least it will not be as few as the divine weapons.

Some people who are related even inquired that there are more than 4 such weapons, but they have not been released, and they will be released every few months in the future.

This is a great thing, there is such a powerful weapon, who doesn't want to hug it, even if some people with not very strong family backgrounds, they also like it, and they can save their lives at critical moments.

3000 is such a number, for a slightly better family, it is no problem to take it out, but it is not like a huge rich, you can be sought after casually, take it out and buy it as a collection, they must have a real demand, they will buy it.

Now, it has been proved that such a weapon is a very practical weapon, and for any general, at a critical moment, having such a weapon may save his life.

is different from ordinary soldiers, and generals are even more so, and because of this, some qualified people will come to Wang Song, intentionally or unintentionally, wanting to have a relationship with Dinghaihou.

In this case, Wang Song's status has risen, and even some relationships that could not work before have begun to work gradually.

The county officials are not as good as the current management, when the entire Daimyo's Mansion, all the circles, and all the ways are related to Wang Song, it is much more convenient for Wang Song to do anything here.

After going through everyone's requests, he also realized the previous arbitrariness, four in three months is a bit less, and it can be increased to about eight, that is to say, he recently released rumors, within half a month, there will be 4 more magic weapons coming out, including a heavy weapon.

That's right, it's a heavy weapon, in the era of cold weapons, there is a huge difference between individual weapons and heavy weapons, this is an accidental weapon, itself is made into a single knife, there was a slight problem when it was built, it was much heavier, after the adjustment of the craftsman, it became the embryo of a long knife, and then combined with the fine iron rod, it was finally synthesized into such a heavy weapon.

For generals with sufficient strength, individual weapons can only protect themselves, and real heavy weapons are the killer weapons for attacking cities, especially those that can break through the armor of the people.

can break through the armor of the Buren, the entire Northern Song Dynasty, and even the China of this era, can block his armor, not a single one, and he has also attracted many top generals, such as the Chong family, the Yang family and the Guo family, they have also made it clear that they want to join the competition.

Auction this thing, isn't the more the merrier, there are many people sought after, this weapon can rise to the top, taking this opportunity, Wang Song successfully completed Zhao Xin's requirements, and found the address of the future blacksmith workshop very close to the Daimyo's Mansion, which is not only very large, but also has quite convenient transportation. 10