Chapter 1033 The Spoils of the Two Traitors (Part II)

In April, the Song Dynasty won a great victory at Anyuan. Song Jingyuan's route slightly made Lu Bing send the general Peng Sun and others to break through the gourd ditch (now Jialu River, Shaanxi). The king of Western Xia was always furious, and sent the capital commander Ye Bima and the deputy commander army to baa and bury the army to besiege Anyuan Village. Anyuan Zhai guards Lu Zhen and Mi Yun faced the battle, the Western Xia army was defeated, and Ye Weima and Baa were killed.

This was the first victory of the Song army since the defeat of Yongle City the year before and the killing of tens of thousands of soldiers and more than 100,000 city builders.

War is a bottomless pit that consumes wealth, several years of Song and Xia military exchanges, so that the Song Dynasty on the burden of heavy burden, money, silk, grain and grass and other military expenditures increased sharply, the main theater of Shaanxi before the war "into 19.78 million guan, out of 15.51 million guan", there is a surplus of 4.27 million guan. As soon as the war was fired, it became "33.9 million in and 33.63 million out", with a surplus of only 270,000, and the balance was just balanced.

The Song Dynasty has always been equal to one tael of silver. Not counting the support from all over the country, and only counting the tax revenue of Shaanxi alone, this skirmish was also a "war of 33 million taels of silver (1 Song tael is equal to 40 to 41.3 grams, which is equivalent to at least 13.2 billion yuan at today's silver prices)".

According to records, in the Battle of Lanzhou, the Song Dynasty used incendiary rockets and artillery. Before the war, the Northern Song Dynasty court allocated 250,000 arrows to the army at one time; In the following year, 20,000 Huoyao bows and arrows, 2,000 Huoyao artillery arrows, and 2,000 firebombs were allocated again.

In this war, a new type of weapon also appeared - the "Bronze Fire Gun". This was the first time in human history that muskets were used in warfare.

The whole city was cheering for victory, no, the whole country was jubilant. Zhao Xing looked back at the bustling street scene, looked back at the happy crowd, and suddenly looked up to the sky and sighed.

It's a blood-pumping time, and everything around is boiling...... However, can the prosperity in front of us last forever?

In this era, China's coal production is undoubtedly the largest in the world, and the mining technology is very advanced, and the people cook coal instead of firewood and grass.

In this era, China's steel production has surpassed that of Britain during the Industrial Revolution. According to the consumption of weapons production, iron coin casting and agricultural tools in the Song Dynasty, Professor Hao Ruobei, an American scholar, estimated that the iron output in the first year of Yuanfeng (1078) was roughly 75,000-150,000 tons, while the iron production of the entire European countries (including the European part of Russia) in the 18th century was roughly between 14,000 and 180,000 tons.

In this era, China's per capita GDP was the highest in the world and the highest in ancient China. The peak tax of the Northern Song Dynasty reached 160 million guan (1 tael of gold is equal to 10 taels of silver is equal to 10 guan, one Song tael is equal to about 40 grams, and it has always been equal to 4 grams of gold), and this tax is at least about 192 billion US dollars when converted into gold prices.

The population of the Song Dynasty was about 100 million, and according to the Song tax rate of "15 taxes and 1 tax": in the "poor and weak" Song Dynasty, China's per capita GDP was 28,800 US dollars......

Thinking of this, Zhao Xing asked himself - what can I do for this era?

At this time, the Song Dynasty has entered the * era, do you want to be like Su Shi - "I mistook my life for being smart"?

Do I have the talent of Su Shi? Do I have connections like Su Shi? Am I as famous as Su Shi? Do I have an official position like Su Shi?

What Su Shi can't do, why can I do it?

But why does the world expect me to save it?

I'm just a mortal, I ...... I pay taxes in a proper manner, and I have never offended anyone!

"The frost and precipitation are scarred, and the shallow blue scales are exposed to the distant continent. The wine power gradually fades, the wind is soft, fluttering, and the hat is amorous but in love.

If the festival is a reward, but the Qingzun will be cut off in autumn. Everything is a dream in the end, rest and rest, and tomorrow the yellow butterfly is also worried.

————Su Shi, Nanxiangzi, Chongjiu Hanhui Lou Presents Xu Junyou"

At this time, it was still early, and Zhao Xing was in a daze on the street for a while, and then continued to walk towards the downtown area in the street.

He walked into a shop selling jewelry, and the courtiers in the store seemed to be very familiar with him, and when he saw him come in, he hurriedly greeted: "Zhao Daguan, you can come, the goods you ordered have already been made, I am thinking, you should also come to pick up the goods in the next few days." ”

Zhao Xing's order was not for Cheng Azhu, which made Cheng Azhu feel a little lost. The man ordered a few pairs of crystal pieces, white crystal pieces, all polished into a round mirror, bulging in the middle.

Zhao Xing treated them very carefully, he picked up the lenses one by one, carefully checked their finish against the light, and even pointed to the sun, so that the sunlight condensed into a point of light behind the lens, and then took out a ruler with him to measure the distance of the light point.

Chao Feng hurriedly explained: "No problem, Zhao Daguan rest assured, the craftsmanship of Cui Zhizhao in our shop is first-class, and it is all polished according to the mold given by the big official, and there will never be a little deviation." ”

Zhao Xing's face was expressionless, he nodded quietly, then carefully counted the lenses, raised his hand and wrote a sign and handed it to Chao Feng: "With this sign, go to Hu Shang Pu Yi'an to withdraw money, I have saved enough money from him." ”

After a while, the errand boy ran into the store and muttered a few words to Chao Feng, who said to Zhao Xing with a smile on his face: "Big official, the guys are taking money from Pu Daguan, the money is no problem, you see, do you want to patronize other goods in the shop." ”

In the jewelry store, he picked out a few pieces of jewelry for Ah Zhu, and paid with the Japanese gold judgment he carried, Zhao Xing continued to walk along the street, and turned into a jewelry store next to him, and the courtiers in this jewelry store were still enthusiastic: "Zhao Daguan, the copper cylinder you ordered in the shelter has been done, but the shelter feels that this shelf is very strange, although the telescopic copper cylinder is very light, but the bare empty cylinder ......"

The courtier added, "Let's see if you can let the mask set some jewels on the barrel." ”

"I brought the inlaid things, and called your shopkeeper out, and I will see him make them in person."

The 30 bronze cylinders were all inlaid with lenses on the front and back, and Zhao Xing did not test the use of the cylinder in front of the clerk. He indifferently put the cylinder into the sandalwood box, as if it was just a strange gift ordered by a strange guest, and left with a relaxed attitude.

However, it was a nautical weapon – a telescope.

Just a few years ago, Ibn al-Haysaymu, who was far away in Arabia, published a treatise on the principles of lens optics – the magnification of a telescope can be mathematically calculated.

Next, Zhao Xing dragged Cheng Azhu to several jewelry stores and took all kinds of ancient monster pieces that he had ordered earlier. These items were a bunch of scattered parts, and Zhao Xing did not let the clerk assemble them on the spot, but wrapped them into packages and carried them on Liu Xiaoer's body.

The further down he went, the bigger the package of his luggage became, and Liu Xiaoer was already out of breath, but the journey was still not over.

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