Chapter 578: The double-edged sword is unsheathed
The Uighurs of Ghochang are a country, well, if they can be considered a nation, their rule is actually loose and terrible, and they are a loose alliance of military tribes.
Saying so lifted them up.
This place used to be, it should be said that it was the homeland of the old Tang Dynasty, when the Tang Empire was strong, this place lived under the high pressure of the Tang Dynasty, although there was a certain amount of exploitation in fact, but the days were also relatively beautiful because of the calm.
Later, when the Tang Empire declined, these people did form such a country, but even if they did not mention his almost completely autonomous oases and tribes, in terms of nationality alone, in addition to the Uighurs, they also included the Southern Turks, Northern Turks, Mass Ironing, Minority Ironing, Zanma, Qarluq, Tungas, and Moman.
Therefore, if Zhao Tingmei wants to take the Silk Road, he will either fight all the way or talk all the way, not only to deal with the nobles on the Tianshan Mountains.
By the way, in Sun Yue's poor remnants of Central Asian historical memory, the possibility of Zhao Tingmei talking about the past is infinitely close to zero.
Because there is still a religious issue involved, the entire Uighur region of Gaochang is Buddhist in the east, while the west is heavily influenced by the eastward expansion of I-Si Lan.
That is to say, the country itself is antithetical to the East and the West, and whatever the East agrees with, the West must oppose.
By the way, the north and south of the country are also divided.
Anyway, the development plan of the Great Song Dynasty that the two top people of the Great Song Dynasty went to implement separately ended in failure, and Sun Yue also specially made a hot pot to comfort Zhao Tingmei, and drank a stuffy drink with him by the way.
In the final analysis, the national strength of the Great Song Dynasty is still not good, and the Academy of Sciences has been established for so many years, but he still can't make a musket for him, so that he can't play the cool game of queuing up to shoot.
It's not that it hasn't been made at all, it's just too primitive, but it jumped over the arquebus and went directly into the flintlock, but the explosion rate is extremely high, and it is more ruthless to its own people than to the enemy, and it is not a three-year and five-year hiatus to solve this problem, and the most important thing is that the cost is still expensive, and it is impossible to popularize the three armies. The situation with the artillery was much the same as with the musket.
In general, artillery is inferior to return artillery or thunderbolts, and muskets are inferior to divine fire crows or bamboo fireballs, even if they have a one-to-two supplement to the combat effectiveness of the army, they are not decisive.
When eating hot pot, Zhao Tingmei also persuaded him: "Brother Yue, who is fine, do you have a career, how can it be smooth sailing, if you don't encounter some hardship, how can you show the ability of our brothers?" β
Sun Yue said: "I actually don't have no choice, I just don't want to use it yet." β
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In the following months, Sun Yue and Zhao Tingmei developed separately.
Zhao Tingmei's development hit a wall everywhere, but he still had a thief's heart, walked on two legs, and even coerced a lot of people in the House of Representatives, wanting them to support the Western Expedition and reproduce the heroic style of the Han and Tang Dynasties.
The other leg is to unite with the Tibetans, the Dangxiang, and the Guiyi Army, with Gaochang as the end point of trade, and open up a semi-Silk Road, anyway, the Uighurs are born to do business, so that they can also communicate with the Western Regions, but the profits are a little lower, and there is not much left in the Great Song Dynasty, or a special hard-earned money, and the majority is afraid that it will be earned by the Uighurs.
Sun Yue even heard from the grapevine that Zhao Tingmei planned to carry out a coup d'Γ©tat in Guazhou, not only to name Guazhou, but also to abolish the entire Cao family, and to incorporate the righteous army and organize the people.
If the Cao family dares to resist, nine times out of ten they will go to war, and if the Khitan dares to intervene in this matter, with Sun Yue's understanding of Zhao Tingmei, he should not be false, and in the end, he will be put into it.
As for Sun Yue, this product is even busier, the reason why Zhao Tingmei is so anxious and shameless is not forced by Sun Yue.
Sailing, who stipulates that you can only go to the New World, Southeast Asia is also a good place, although there is no rubber in Southeast Asia in these years, there is no tobacco, but there is still rice in Zhancheng, this is something that can directly increase the grain output of the Great Song Dynasty by at least two times.
So when the fleet took this thing out, the whole world was boiling.
In addition to the hard bar of grain production, the most intuitive point is that fools know that Jiangnan is going to be developed on a large scale. Isn't there a saying in the Ming and Qing dynasties, called Huguang ripe the world, which is talking about this Zhancheng rice.
With the development of Jiangnan, mulberry, lacquer, copper and other related industries in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will inevitably be further developed, and even become a legendary economic center is just around the corner.
Oh yes, with the abundance of grain, the Central Plains, especially the Shandong-East region, can use the places that originally needed to grow a lot of wheat to grow cotton, which can further promote the development of the cotton textile industry.
In short, this is something that affects the whole body, just with such a thing, Sun Yue directly became the de facto leader of the merchants in just a few months, and even those who were very willing to mix with Zhao Tingmei also jumped ship to Sun Yue. Even the local army he was proud of was coerced by the capitalists sent by Sun Yue to go south to open up the wasteland.
Zhao Tingmei was not in a hurry, so she almost took the initiative to provoke border troubles to divert the main contradictions.
However, this is just an appetizer.
As I said before, Sun Yue has a killer feature that can make the people obedient, after the introduction of Champa rice, the enthusiasm for navigation within the Great Song Dynasty suddenly became unprecedentedly high, and Xue Juzheng in the House of Lords was much more confident in speaking.
After Sun Yue thought about it and discussed it with Sun Chunming, Sun Yue decided to use it simply.
In fact, it is a very simple little trick, that is, to give the people of Jizhou to the country of Zhiwa.
The Wa Kingdom, at least for the great cannibals of the early Song Dynasty, is still very strange and unfamiliar, but this place is full of treasures, such as lacquerware, such as ...... Silver.
Because of Sun Yue and Sun Chunming's changes, Qian Zhuang began to issue silver coins, and the credit value of them was much greater than the actual value, although it was minted, but the price of silver on the market also rose many times at once, more expensive than gold.
The Great Song Dynasty did not produce silver, and Central Asia and Europe did not produce much silver.
Once the Wa Kingdom was developed, a large amount of silver flowed into the hands of these color mothers, and if they took the silver to buy things in the Great Song Dynasty, this money would be countless times easier than robbery.
Of course, this blow to the economy of the Great Song Dynasty itself was absolutely collapse-like.
Just like the Ming Dynasty in the fifteenth century, a large amount of silver poured in, which directly squeezed the Ming Dynasty dry, so that the imperial court had no money everywhere if it wanted to do something, and finally lost the country and almost wiped out. This can even be used as the first reason for the demise of Daming, which is much more serious than natural disasters such as Xiaoice River.
With a wave of the double-edged sword, how did the people of the color eyes not know, anyway, Da Song must have been cut off half of his life first.