Chapter 3249 Vietnam also came to take advantage

Zhao Xing casually pointed in a few directions and replied: "How much did I loot, you don't need to ask, you should ask how much I looted for the Great Song Dynasty?" There, there, there, there are three huge copper mines in these three directions, and their copper reserves are the sum of the current Great Song Dynasty. I am going to dismantle the small copper mines in the Liangguang area and build a large mine here.

In addition to the copper mines, seven large silver mines have been discovered in this vicinity, and their silver content is more than ten times that of all the silver mines in our Great Song Dynasty. My Great Song Dynasty lacks silver, copper, and iron, and with this Dali, everything is satisfied. ”

Zhao Xing pointed to the distance again, and continued: "There is also a river there, which leads directly to Jiaozhi, the quality of the coal in Jiaozhi is very good, and there is iron ore, along the Mekong River, I can transport the coal of Jiaozhi into Dali, build a large iron field, and smelt Dali's iron ore, copper ore and silver ore on the spot, with these huge amounts of silver and copper, my Song Dynasty will not be short of money from now on---- this is the most important thing." ”

Sun Cong nodded: "It's a pity that I can't go to a few mines to have a look, but I feel more and more now that handing over Dali to you for management is really a wise decision---- this thing is in the hands of others, it is all corrupted, and it will only work in your hands, I will definitely tell Zhang Xianggong when I go back." ”

Zhao Xing nodded in agreement.

This is a matter of course, the Great Song Dynasty had an income of almost 160 million guan during the peak tax period, and if Zhao Xing was willing to increase the tax revenue of Guangnan to 25 million guan, plus Guangxi and Dali, he alone would be equivalent to bearing one-third of the tax of the entire Great Song Dynasty, or even one-half. In this case, the imperial court must turn a blind eye to his abnormal movements.

Sun Cong was in a hurry to return to the capital, and after he shook around Dali, he also scavenged a boatload of stones from Dali and hurried back to Guangzhou. After he searched the boat, he finally understood why Zhao Xing was crazy about collecting Dali's stones.

Marble is not rare in Dali, Dali is more rare is jadeite and red sapphire, Sun Cong collected the boat of stones both white marble, there are various colors of marble, of course, there are a small number of jadeite and gemstones, he hurried to Guangzhou, I feel that this business trip, it is really worth it.

"I always knew that. It's a fat difference here to leave people, it's funny that the idiots in the capital heard that they were coming to Guangzhou. I have always thought that even if you leave people in the middle of nowhere, even if you go to the depths of the Nine Shadows, there will be gold", Sun Cong was about to groan with satisfaction.

Zhao Xing was also very satisfied, and came back from this inspection. The imperial court has already sent the reply, and basically implemented it one by one in accordance with Zhao Xing's requirements.

After this battle, Zhao Xing also began to reward his subordinates, assigning many of his positions to his followers---- Li Gefei was promoted to Guangnan East Road Economic Envoy, Liao Zhengyi served as Guangnan West Road Economic Envoy Pacification Envoy, and Li Zhiyi was also transferred back to Guangzhou. Serve as the city's envoy.

At the same time, Wan Qiyong officially became the prefect of Guangzhou Prefecture, of course. His original position as the Transit Supervisor is still unsuccessful. Shuai Fan officially became the governor of Meizhou, and concurrently served as the main case of the soldiers and horses of the transfer division......

After all the subordinates were rewarded, Sun Cong took half a ship of goods, and took the king and ministers of Dali to get up and return to Beijing, on the eve of his departure, the imperial court according to the report of his trip to Dali, also gave a new reply, the court set up in Guangdong and Guangxi, the four ears and eyes no longer pay attention to the trivial things done by Zhao Xing, and the new order of the imperial court is: pay attention to the tax situation of Liangguang and Xianglin Road. Ensure that Zhao Xing's promised land tax can be shipped in time in spring and winter......

This order of the imperial court can be regarded as relieving the ears and eyes of several court members who were in an embarrassing situation. This means that in the future, they will only take the money, and monitor Zhao Xing in February and November every year to issue a timely deposit of money. That's all right.

In this way, Zhao Xing was also relieved, he could make guns and cannons with great energy, expand the army and use force...... And the first thing he did was to officially take Su Shi back to Guangzhou, and at the same time appoint Su Shi and his four senior brothers as the "counselors" of Guangdong Fuxue---- Wang Ying and Wen Xun turned a blind eye to this, and the two officials in Guangxi who held the same mission also pretended not to know.

In the month of Layue, the imperial court began to issue edicts, explicitly ordering all prefectures and counties to practice and prohibit the private manufacture of firearms, however, except for the Liangguang region.

Zhao Xing began to formally arm the gunmen of Liangguang, and he pointed to the map to explain to Shuai Fan: "Liangguang and Dali, no, it should be said that Xianglin Road, these three places have three places to raise troops. Xianglin Road is close to the Tibetan region, which is a continuous mountainous area, and those mountainous areas are above 3,000 meters above sea level, and there are places where snow is covered all year round.

Liangguang is not a good place to train soldiers, the temperature is not low in winter, everyone can come over with a big pants all year round, the army trained in this place, once they arrive in the north, in the north of the day and night temperature difference is very large, I am afraid that there is no need to fight, the soldiers will also be reduced due to illness.

In the past few years, I have pondered everywhere that only the Dali Mountains are the most suitable for training hard-working troops, and I need to train an army of 20,000 people in the Dali Mountains to adapt them to the windy and snowy climate. As for Guangdong, only the mountainous area of Shaozhou has a suitable climate in the whole Guangzhou, so Guangdong will hoard heavy troops and Shaoguan. In addition, Fujian is not bad, Fujian bandits are under the responsibility of Guangdong, where the bandits in the mountainous areas have been repeatedly suppressed, and the Fujian Transshipment Department has been begging me for a year, and I am ready to ask Fujian for a piece of land to place my Guangdong musketeers in the mountainous areas of Fujian, so that they can adapt to mountain warfare.

Since I left Huanqing, I have always been indignant, thinking that one day I will return to Huanqing, so that the people of Xixia will know completely that I Zhao Laohu cannot be provoked. As the area around Qingqing is bitterly cold, we must let the soldiers have a concept of mountain warfare and a concept of winter warfare. I thought so, Master Zhang Zhang planned to let me train 3,000 muskets, and I asked him for 4,000 men, of which 1,000 we stayed as a kind in the army.

In addition, we recruited sailors from Fujian, musketeers from the people of Guangdong Tunken, and I also planned to recruit a group of tall spearmen from Huainan and Mizhou to form a large array of muskets and spears.

Shuai Jian Si, I should call you Shuai Meizhou now, yes. I trained a team of musketeers in Michigan, but it was ruined, and since then I've learned that it is up to people to do gun maintenance. It's impossible, I need to use rules to restrain these musketeers---- you organize people for me, summarize the experience of these two wars, write regulations, and in the future, our soldiers will use regulations to constrain and tell soldiers what to do when they encounter something, so that our soldiers are a group of soldiers who know how to fight, and they will no longer ...... blindly"

Shuai Fan replied with a bitter face: "My lord." There was no experience in these two wars at all, and we were intimidating when we fought against the country, and they gave in as soon as they hit the cannon; Hit Dali. It was just a long march, that is, under the Shanxian Mansion and the royal capital, the Dali people lined up to fight us, but I only released two rounds of muskets, and they collapsed. You asked me to sum up the experience, what did I summarize, is it the soldier's tourism experience? ”

Zhao Xing said strongly: "I don't care. I need the regulations for musketeers, the regulations for spearmen, the regulations for baggage soldiers, the regulations for hygiene, the regulations for marching, the regulations for camping, the regulations for training...... For all military operations, I would like you to come up with a set of regulations, even the ones for the rotation of musketeers......

We don't have time to delay, Chen Buqun has already broken into the Indian Ocean with a fleet, and I need to be in the army next year, next summer. I want to personally lead the troops to Fujian to run a trip to test our army through actual combat, and now these soldiers are too easy. Intimidate, travel, and make a full hoard, hurry up and change your shoes, the rich and noble soldiers are a big deal......"

Zhao Xing was showing his arms and sleeves, talking about the rectification plan for the army with great interest, but when he saw a Cheng child under the corridor squeezing his eyebrows at him, Zhao Xing was dissatisfied, he slapped the table and shouted: "Don't you see that I am talking about national affairs." If it's not a national event, get out of the way. I don't bother to bother with the little things in your family. ”

The Cheng child snorted and said, "Seventh Uncle, what I want to say is a major national event...... Not. It can also be regarded as a matter of our family---- uncle, don't worry, it is indeed a big deal, Guangxi came to report: Mrs. Chen's mother's family, the Chen family of the five northern provinces of Jiaozhi sent troops to the special grinding road, occupying the 17th village of my Great Song Dynasty, Guangxi sent a letter to ask how to deal with it. ”

Hearing this, everyone turned their eyes to Zhao Xing to see how he answered.

Temodao is a prefecture in Guangxi, and this prefecture and county is managed by a local Tusi, which is called an "autonomous region" in modern terms. This area is a buffer zone deep into Dali and Jiaozhi. And the southern part of Temo Road, that is, the northern plain of modern Vietnam.

Originally, Vietnam was a long and narrow strip of land, and it has always wanted to seize a strategic column, in the original history, Vietnam was after the fall of Dali, and sent troops to occupy the southern part of the Te Mo Road, which made Vietnam's modern territory and northern region very wide, and the south was just a narrow corridor.

Zhao Xing sent troops to Dali, after he captured all the ministers of Dali, the whole Dali presented a kind of power struggle era, this power struggle also affected the rule of Temo Dao, at this time, the dominant Chen people in northern Vietnam could not resist the temptation, sent troops to seize a part of Temo Dao, hoping to create a fait accompli through the relationship with Zhao Xing.

The Guangxi military knew that Zhao Xing had carved up the Cham with Jiaozhi, and estimated the relationship between Jiaozhi and Zhao Xing, plus Guangxi did not have many troops, so they shirked this "invasion" and reported it to Zhao Xing, waiting for Zhao Xing's reply.

Zhao Xing glanced at the expressions of everyone in the room, and asked angrily and funny: "Everyone, who is more important, national interests or personal interests?" ”

Wan Qianyong avoided Zhao Xing's gaze, in his mind, no interest was comparable to the interests of his employer, if Zhao Xing was willing to compromise, he would come up with a lot of reasons to delay the handling of this matter.

Shuai Fan slapped the table, blushed and roared: "Of course, there is no doubt that state affairs come first!" ”

Zhao Xing smiled, he said slowly: "All along, I want to meddle in Vietnam, Cam Ranh City is just one foot, now it seems that I should stretch out a hand ---- order: Shuai Fan, the governor of Meizhou and the director of the Guangdong South Road Transfer Division, lead the Guangdong general into Guangxi and repel the Jiaozhi army." ”

Shuai Fan stood up, knocked on his chest and gave a military salute, and asked loudly with a dull expression: "Excuse me, where is the cut-off point of my front?" ”

Zhao Xing replied briskly: "If possible, I hope you advance to the royal capital of Vietnam---- the Great Song Dynasty once returned the five northern provinces of Jiaozhi during the Yuanfeng period, this time, your minimum goal is to recapture the five northern provinces, of course, if you take advantage of more, I will only congratulate you." ”

Shuai Fan tapped his chest again, turned around without saying a word, and walked out of the hall with his head held high in a soldier's pace. Behind him, Wan Qiyong muttered in a low voice: "My lord." Mrs. Chen is still in Jinlan, do you want to inform Mrs. Chen about this? ”

Zhao Xing shook his head: "I was not notified of the Jiaozhi people's dispatch of troops, and we don't need to notify the Jiaozhi people." Hurry up and send a clipper over to pick up Mrs. Chen. ”

Wan Qiyong immediately added: "We also have to increase troops to Jinlan to prevent the Jiaozhi people from taking advantage of the opportunity to ......."

Zhao Xing patted the table and smiled: "It's okay, if the Jiaozhi people send troops to Cam Ranh, then he will fight on two fronts, and we will attack from the north ---- go down the Mekong River." Arrive directly at the king's capital of another land...... What was the name of that city, I remember I once gave them a name, it was called Hanoi. A city by the river. For my mighty water army, it was an undefended city...... Specifically, let Shuai Fan worry about it, and we will discuss it next. ”

On the 10th day of the lunar month, Sun Cong had just arrived in Hangzhou with the captured Dalichen, and the first issue of the Maritime News was published. The front page of this newspaper is the Dali War Report released by Zhao Xing, and the detailed results of the entire Dali Battle are presented in front of everyone. It was followed by Sun Cong's recital. The piece has not yet been reported to the imperial court, but it has been pre-published in the Maritime News.

Sun Cong's recital, first mentioned a concept, called "national honor", when he visited Dali, he first observed the Dali Song merchants, and the Dali naturalized scholars of the pride of being a Song people. This is the first time in history that the war has been waged in the name of "national safety". After the war, every Song person living in Dali felt extremely proud......

Sun Cong also talked about the Admiralty Building, about him standing at the foot of the mountain. The extreme pride he felt when he looked up at the Admiralty Tower at sunset, in this article, he spoke for the first time about Zhao Xing's view that culture ---- is also a weapon of war.

Next, Sun Cong talked about his visit to the jade-made Dali royal capital of Yangtho Baa City, and he talked about what Zhao Xing said when he walked on the marble-paved jade avenue---From now on, it is the dream city of my Great Song Dynasty."

In the article, Sun Cong described the dream city made of jade very beautifully, and after that, the tourism industry of the Great Song Dynasty was officially born. After Zhao Xing repaired the wide road. With the foundation of the birth of tourism, many literati rushed to Guangzhou. In Guangzhou, take a horse-drawn carriage or take a water transportation boat to Xianglin County to experience the beauty of that dream city.

The first issue of Zhao Xing's maritime news newspaper, in addition to the war report and Sun Cong's travels, there is also a "hundred generals' spectrum", which published a hundred generals who made meritorious contributions to the war in Dali, these generals also used the "iron line drawing method", that is---- comic line outline method, depicting the heads of the generals, detailing the origins and achievements of these generals, among these generals, more than seventy percent belong to the Guangxi Yi people, this time, set off the Guangxi Yi people's military fever, the new Xianglin County ethnic minorities also follow the trend to commit crimes, They cried and shouted to join the Cantonese Demon Army......

Zhao Xing set up this newspaper to open the eyes of the people, and in addition to domestic affairs, it also published the most popular topic in the West today---- the mystery of the bronze statue of Rhode Island.

In B.C., a 33-meter-high bronze statue was made on the Greek island of Rhodes, and now people speculate about the shape of the legendary Rhodes god as follows: the colossus holds a throwing spear in his right hand, a sword in his left hand, and a high column at the base of the column, surrounded by undulating waves. Legend has it that the crotch of the Colossus could enter and exit ships. Harettas, the man who made it, once claimed: "Gave the world a second sun".

However, the huge bronze statue of Rhode Island only stood for more than 50 years before it was miserable. Between 227 and 226 BC (five to six years before the reign of Emperor Qin and Emperor Shi), a series of devastating earthquakes struck Rhodes, severely damaging the island's urban buildings. The statue of the sun god also broke off from its weakest place---- knee, and collapsed to the ground, leaving only the pedestal and two lower legs.

After that, the Egyptian pharaoh Ptolemy III extended a helping hand to the Rhodes, offering a large sum of money to help the Rhodes restore the Colossus of the Sun God, but the Rhodes declined Ptolemy III's kindness.

The huge body of the idol lies across the ground, at the mercy of the wind and rain, autumn and spring. Some 900 years later, in 653 AD, the Arabs invaded Rhodes and found the remains of a colossus lying on the ground, which they took great pains to transport to Syria and sell to a merchant. It is said that it took the merchant 880 camels to transport the remains, and the Colossus disappeared. It is also said that the colossus was stolen shortly after its collapse, but the thief ship sank in a storm at sea, and the bronze statue was buried deep in the sea. Where did the bronze statue go? I'm afraid there's no way to know.

The Colossus of Rhodes no longer exists, but the legends and speculations about this amazing statue endure. The first to provoke this topic was the "number one university in the world" located in Italy. They claim that the Colossus of Rhode Island is 33 meters high, and according to the principle of mechanics, the distance between the feet of the Colossus is only 10 meters wide, and such a span makes it difficult for a ship of a small size to enter and exit; In this pose, the overall pattern of the Colossus will be unbalanced.

The discussion of the Colossus of Rhodes meant the official beginning of the Renaissance era, and with the study of the physics of the Colossus of Rhodes, Copernicus was born shortly after. World historians believe that from this year onwards, the Earth entered the "physical age".

After this report, the "Maritime News" added an editor's note, asking everyone: "Why is it said that according to the principle of mechanics, the distance between the feet of the colossus is only 10 meters wide at most, how is this result calculated, and what is the basis for them to make this calculation?" Principles of mechanics, what principles are you talking about? ”

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