Tomorrow is 515, the anniversary of the starting point, and the day with the most benefits. In addition to the gift bag and school bag, this time's "515 Red Envelope Flip" must be seen, how can there be a reason not to grab the red envelope, set the alarm clock high~

After all, technology is to be used by people, if you let useful and suitable people stand on the court, and then affect the pattern of the Southern Song Dynasty, this is what Hong Tao urgently needs, as for the mastery of one or two small technologies, it can't change the strength of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jinhe Empire. Not to mention economically, the annual income of the Jinhe Empire has almost caught up with half of the income of the Southern Song Dynasty, but the population of the Jinhe Empire is not even one percent of that of the Southern Song Dynasty. If the surplus is calculated, even if the Jinhe Empire doubles its welfare benefits, the annual surplus of the treasury is similar to that of the Southern Song Dynasty.

What to fight a war? Especially after the use of hot weapons, the war is about money! Each shot is equivalent to throwing out a handful of copper coins, and a salvo of gold coins is gone. The musketeers are powerful, but if you don't have money, you see, they are not as good as the peasants with hoes. Hong Tao wanted to use muskets, artillery, and gunpowder to lead the Southern Song Dynasty to a point of no return, and the farther it went, the more it could not turn back, and the more inseparable it was from commerce.

A commercially developed country, Hong Tao has a hundred ways to deal with it, and if he comes up with a random move, the other party will have to face the brink of national economic collapse. But as a self-sufficient agricultural country, Hong Tao has only one way to influence it, and that is war! Because it is not open to the public, it is basically unaffected by the outside world, so even if the coastline is completely banned, it is not too uncomfortable.

This kind of thinking Kong Pei doesn't have, no one in this era, if there is a possibility, it is the second and third generations of Jinhewan in the navigation school. But this road Hongtao must go, others can not understand and disagree, and it is still worth talking while they are talking now. Even if it is forcibly implemented, it has to be done according to its own ideas, and this thing can't be cooked by the people.

"And me! I also have a report here, and Your Majesty will approve it together! Not in vain, His Majesty's new ship has successfully passed two sea trials and has begun to install sails. The fastest words. Your Majesty will be able to drive it out next month! Before Kong Pei could sit down, Wen Xiaoqi stood up again. Although Qi Zu and Wen Xiaoqi are ministers and vice ministers of the Ministry of Industry, they have no subordinate relationship in their work. One is responsible for metallurgy and mechanical engineering, the other is responsible for shipbuilding, and in some cases there is more cooperation, and at other times there is competition, as now.

"Oh...... Great, I'll check it out another day when I have time. The report will be another day, aren't you in a hurry? "Hong Tao is obviously not very interested in the Sea King. He said that he was fine, but there was no happy expression on his face. He didn't want a clumsy and slow battleship at all, he seemed to have been there once since the ship was built, and then he forgot about it.

"Hurry! It's very urgent! I'm going to apply for more R&D funds, and we can carry five looms in our water tank......" Wen Xiaoqi is not interested in shipbuilding now, and he is more interested in steam engines. Since this thing is top secret, no one here has the right to know. So he played a dumb riddle with Hong Tao, using a water tank instead of the name of the steam engine.

"Oops! Not bad...... Come on. After the meeting, send the report to my office, and we will talk alone! Hearing that Wen Xiaoqi had made progress in researching the steam engine, Hong Tao was able to raise his spirits. Although this thing is still some distance from practical application, as long as it continues to develop, sooner or later it will become a force that can change the world. And it's not too expensive, laborious, or laborious to develop this thing, so why not do it.

"Alright. Let's start with the topic. I have listened to all of your speeches just now, and I have gained a lot. Governing the country is like driving a big ship to sea, no matter how capable I am, I can't drive a big ship alone, we must have everyone working together. Now let me summarize. And then everybody did what I said and got to work. ”

"The first task is very heavy, and it is still done by Minister of Culture, with the cooperation of Minister Kong. Taking advantage of the delicate relationship between the empire, the Great Song Dynasty and the Mongol Empire at this time, he tried to persuade the Great Song court to launch the Northern Expedition. This battle must be fought, otherwise the empire will cooperate with one side of the Mongol Empire alone, and will no longer support the Great Song. Because the Northern Expedition brought many benefits to the Great Song Dynasty! For example, the price of muskets can be appropriately reduced, and if necessary, corn can also be taken out, and if it fails, they can build a fire and medicine factory. ”

"The second task is the responsibility of Minister Ci, which is mainly to appease the maritime merchants and continue the strike. Huang Sha, now it's time for your Propaganda Department to make some efforts, and you will assist Minister Ci to use the Imperial Printing House to print more pamphlets, and hand them over to the Strait Company and the Bosom Friend Society to spread them, so as to help the maritime merchants make their voices bigger, and by the way, also let the imperial court pay more attention to the Bosom Friend Society, and don't pay attention to the maritime merchants. ”

"The third task is Minister Li's, and there is one more item to the goods shipped to Mongolia, grain! This time, I didn't go to Mizhou, and directly pulled them to Laizhou, which is the sphere of influence of the Möngke tribe, and sold grain to them at a low price to ensure that they would not be short of food before the winter came. With food, they will be more confident, and once people have hole cards in their hands, they can often make unexpected decisions. If Guiyou and Meng Ge can meet each other, the reason for the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty will be even more sufficient, and it will not be possible if you don't want to! ”

"The fourth task is my own, isn't the Sea King built soon, and I don't have anything to do here in a short time, I plan to take some of the maritime merchants to explore the way to the big cannibal first. No matter how the problem of the maritime strike is finally solved, the route to the big food country will be opened, do you still have any problems? Hong Tao listened to the speeches of most of the imperial officials, and after the people cooked, they were concentrated, and four tasks were arranged in a row, covering almost all the departments of the empire, and even he himself was not left behind.

Hong Tao was busy working here, and the Southern Song Dynasty court was not idle, and they basically thought of everything Hong Tao could think of. Now the court is lively, so many multiple-choice questions make their group of strange people scratch their brains, each choice represents at least two changes, and each change will affect the interests of most people, where to go is a big problem.

First of all, there was the matter of the royal fleet, when the survivors were sent back to Guangzhou by the ships of the maritime merchants, and then escorted back to Lin'an by local officials, the court was turned into a vegetable market. The officials who participated in the flotilla and the officials who opposed the flotilla first quarreled, those ships and goods were all subscribed by each family, they were all money, not a small money, it was just gone, who could be willing?

The faction represented by Shi Songzhi was directly anxious, and wrote to ask the imperial court to make decisions for themselves and seek justice from the Jinhe Empire. Of course, this is just the central thought, and the words cannot be said like that. Each memo was written impassionedly, without exception, all of them stood in the interests of the country and thought about the imperial court.

They insisted that this was the Jinhe Empire secretly making trouble and sinking the imperial court's fleet, so the imperial court should take advantage of the weakening of the Mongol Empire to vigorously develop sailors, strictly control maritime trade, and even use the means of forbidding the sea.

These claims were immediately met with firm opposition from the Zheng Qing faction, for the simple reason that there was no evidence that the imperial fleet had been sunk. Those who were rescued said in unison that the fleet had encountered strong winds and waves and then entered a dead sea, and then it was lost. If it weren't for the emperor of the Golden River Empire personally entering the Dead Sea with a warship to search, I'm afraid that no one would have returned.

Now the Golden River Empire is not only not the mastermind behind the scenes, but also a life-saving benefactor, not only can not be blamed, but also has to be thanked. Zheng Qingzhi also delivered a speech at the court meeting, in which he asked three questions to Emperor Lizong and officials of Shi Song's faction: whether the homeland of the Great Song Dynasty was important or the unowned sea was important; Is it important to unite the Northern Expedition of the Jinhe Empire, or is it important to add another strong enemy to the imperial court because of personal grievances; Whether it is important to continue to expand maritime trade to earn a large amount of tax revenue for the imperial court, or to satisfy the private interests of certain people in the imperial court.

Zheng Qingzhi was not an empty speculation, he had a document in his hand, which included an analysis of the current domestic situation of the Mongol Empire, a comparison of the strength of the Great Song army and the Mongol Empire south of the Yellow River, a specific figure of taxes collected by the Great Song City Ship Division from Qiongzhou, Guangzhou, Quanzhou, and Fuzhou in the past five years, and the details of some families in the imperial fleet who forcibly bought sailor warships at low prices and carried a large amount of private goods in the fleet.

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