Flat, flat! In fact, it has not been a quiet year at all. At the beginning of the year, the Jin Kingdom was destroyed, and in the middle of the year, the Southern Song Dynasty army marched north and collapsed, in fact, at the same time that the Southern Song Dynasty court was plotting how to recover Sanjing, the Mongols also held a conference of kings in the upper reaches of the Orkhon River (now north-central Outer Mongolia), and formulated the next strategic goal. The Great Khan of Mongolia at that time was Ogedai Khan, who said to Muhuali's grandson Tath at the conference:

"The first emperor started a great cause and hung for forty years. Today, the Central Plains, Western Xia, Goryeo, and Uighur states have all been subordinated, but in the southeast corner, there is still a hindrance to the sound of religion. I want to bow down to the heavens, why do you want to be? ”

At this time, Mu Huali was already dead, and Tath had no ability to argue with Wokotai, so he could only follow him: "The courtiers have been favored for many generations, and they want to repay it in case of emergency, which is today." Although the minister is blunt, he is willing to fight the power of heaven and sweep away Huai and Zhejiang, and he will come to the unpredictable place in person! ”

Ögedei was very satisfied with Tath's answer, not only Tath's answer, but also the other Mongol kings were highly unanimous on this issue, and they all wanted to snatch the most prosperous country in the world. At this congress, the Mongol Empire formally established its strategy of invasion of the south.

At this time, the Mongol Empire was really strong, and if it was not convinced, it was strong. Just fighting the Southern Song Dynasty, Ogedai Khan felt that it was not too enjoyable, so he had to take into account the western expedition and the east. This expedition was the second western expedition of the Mongol Empire, led by Genghis Khan's grandson Batu and accompanied by princes such as Guiyou and Möngke, with the strategic goal of Kipchak and Zaras, that is, the northern side of the Black Sea and Eastern Europe. The army that went south was mainly led by the son of Ogedae, and a part of the troops had to be drawn to pacify Goryeo. West, south, east, three sides of the war. More ruthless than the mustache of World War II.

There have been many commentaries on this period of history in later generations. It is said that the Mongols did not want to invade the south. It is all to blame that the Southern Song Dynasty court violated the agreement and sent troops to seize Sanjing, so it had to start the southern invasion. I don't know the starting point of this argument, but in terms of time, it is clearly not so. Because the army of the Southern Song Dynasty has not yet entered the territory of Henan, the conference of the Mongolian kings has already been held, and the southern invasion is already a sure decision, regardless of whether there is an incident of entering Luo. The Mongol invasion of the Southern Song Dynasty was inevitable.

In history, there have been incidents of being cheated by people because of believing in the covenant, both at home and abroad, and most of the countries that expect to use the covenant to protect themselves are unlucky. Between countries, it is possible to be trustworthy in doing business with each other, but it is absolutely not possible to be trustworthy in politics and the military. Until now, there are still people who talk about the covenant, and this history has been learned in vain, and the most basic principles have not been understood.

Great joy and sorrow, this is the portrayal of Southern Song Dynasty people like Luo Youde and Wen Nan. From the beginning of the year to the present, not only have the two of them eaten bee feces, but many maritime merchants have also been in good spirits on happy occasions. In addition to inviting guests to drink and talking about how to recover the rivers and mountains, he also donated a lot of money to the navigation school. Unless Hong Tao expands the school and recruits more students, lest the north be recovered in a few years, there will be more routes and not enough manpower, just like the army of the Southern Song Dynasty can reach the north of Yanshan in minutes.

After less than half a year of excitement, they are all honest again, they don't go out if they don't go out, they all bow their heads and pretend not to see them when they meet in the teahouse, they are afraid that people will come to ask what they said about the recovery of rivers and mountains? That is, Luo Youde and Wen Nan can't run, otherwise the two of them will have to hide, mainly to avoid Hong Tao. As long as he came to Ximaozhou or went to the racecourse, Wen Nan and Luo Youde would find all kinds of excuses to escape, and if they couldn't run, they pretended to be sick, and they refused to sit with Hong Tao anyway. For Hong Tao's broken mouth, the two of them have been taught many times, and they can usually say that normal people are abnormal, but now that the pigtails have been caught, do they still have a good life?

"Alas...... Students, do you see? There is no strong motherland behind him, and he can't brag about it, and he will be slapped in the face every minute! Have you seen your teacher? This is the Present World Newspaper! If there is such an argument in the future, everyone should think about it today, don't make your brain confused because of your subjective wishes, this is the point of learning! Hong Tao couldn't find a chance to step on Wen Nan and Luo Youde in person, but he didn't plan to let them go, and used them as negative teaching materials for students, living examples, how good! Who let them pull their students together against themselves in the first few months, this is not only to disgust them, but also to educate and educate students how to think about problems in the future.

"Principal, my father said that you are also talking on paper, and he also said that you are timid and dare not go to the north to help, so I will suffer a loss...... Luo Meimei did not agree with Hong Tao's remarks, because he had a father who was not very reliable, and he said everything in front of his children.

"Your father, like Teacher Wen, is a mouth peddler! The Great Song Dynasty is your country, and the principal is not a Song person, so why should I help the Great Song Dynasty fight? America, let me ask you, if you are asked to help the Great Yue Kingdom fight, and people will not thank you after the battle, they will have to bomb you away quickly, for fear that you will rob other people's territory, are you willing to go? "Hong Tao is not very reliable, the students he teaches are all a group of freaks with confused thoughts, just like the thinking that influenced Jin Yue since childhood, there is no fixed model and theory, and he can say whatever comes to mind.

“…… Then I won't go, we can't do loss-making business, my father said! Luo Mei's fat face has a pair of round eyes, and he doesn't need to wear makeup, he just looks like a profiteer. Hong Tao is very suspicious that this child is not Luo Youde's, a handsome old man in the Song Dynasty has to marry an ugly daughter-in-law to give birth to such a child, look at Luo Australia's little touch to know that Luo Youde's daughter-in-law is not ugly.

"So, if you want your country to be rich and strong, then you have to work your own, and it's useless to expect others. No matter how rich the principal's family is, he will not give your father a penny in vain, even if your father borrows it from me, I will put forward the conditions. For example, if your father will pass you on to me as a godson, are you willing? Hong Tao made another analogy, his ability is to motivate these children to study hard and become useful people when they grow up.

"I do...... My father said that the salamander would be my daughter-in-law in the future. There are a lot of valuable things in the principal's house, as well as a big boat, I want them all! Unexpectedly, Luo Meimei not only did not inherit Luo Youde's good skin, but also did not inherit Luo Youde's backbone, and he didn't think about it for half a second, so he recognized Hong Tao as his godfather. By the way, the salamander was also abducted.

"Stop! You say one more word. I'll drag you behind the horse's ass and run! Hong Tao's eyes were about to pop out. He has always dug pits for others, and he watched the excitement on the sidelines, but he didn't expect to play eagle all his life, but in the end he was pecked blind by a small house finch. This kid is so hateful, Hong Tao has already kept him firmly in his heart, and he must be guarded against in the future, he has not been a good thing since he was a child!

The first year of Duanping was not completely without good things, first of all, there was artillery. This good thing Hong Tao felt that he could offset all the bad things. Then several mares in the horse farm successfully gave birth to foals, which means that the Arabian horse was successfully crossed with the Xixia horse, Guangxi horse, and Mongolian horse. After their offspring are selected and bred, they pick out those breeds that are suitable for raising in the Central Plains and the Yangtze River basin and can be used as war horses, and after expanding the population, they can be reproduced from generation to generation and become a new horse breed. However, Hong Tao did not think that the Southern Song Dynasty was suitable for large-scale horse breeding, because it really did not have a suitable place, and all areas suitable for horse breeding were not in the country. It can only be raised on a small scale, and the cost is higher, and it has to be endured, which can provide the necessary supplement for the Southern Song Dynasty army. It's a great thing.

There's one more good thing that's bigger than artillery, and that's newspapers! Wennan's cousin was taken to Guangzhou by Luo Youde last year. didn't leave, and after Wen Nan came back from the voyage with Hong Tao, the two met in Ximaozhou, and then this Wen Hao Wen Dexin ran back to Lin'an. He is not too timid to be the editor-in-chief of this newspaper, but went home to find a helper, Wen Hao still values the newspaper that Wen Nan said to him, and he can make his articles widely circulated, what more can he ask for! But he can't play this thing alone, and there are still his classmates in Lin'an City, who plan to call over to run a newspaper together.

Do they know what a newspaper is and how to run it? Must know! The Song Dynasty once again broke through Hong Tao's imagination, it already had a newspaper, and it was not a prototype of a newspaper like the Imperial Court Newspaper, but a real newspaper. An intellectual like Wen Hao is no stranger to newspapers, but Hong Tao's ideas for running newspapers are richer, more novel, and more attractive than those of the Song Dynasty, so he is so interested.

"The Morning Post? I've been to Lin'an, why haven't I seen anyone selling newspapers? Didn't you tell me that Da Song also has a newspaper! Hong Tao felt that he had deceived Wennan, and he always thought that the newspaper was his own invention, but Lin'an actually had a newspaper for a long time, and even the name was very regular.

"Those tabloids are different from the newspapers that Mr. said, they are more similar to the news of the imperial court newspaper, and there are some nonsense people's fabrications, which are not the same." Wen Nan denied Hong Tao's accusations and told Hong Tao about the difference between Song Dynasty newspapers and Hong Tao.

Judging from Wen Nan's introduction, the newspapers of the Song Dynasty were more like news programs, and they did not have a fixed issue date, and they would only be printed and sold after a major event occurred in the court. These are all policy decisions from the court, plus some commentators' articles. However, it is indeed a newspaper, a newspaper issued by the private sector, and what is more interesting is that this kind of newspaper also has a very mature management system.

First of all, these newspapers have special reporters, yes, reporters, these people's main business is to go to government departments to listen to the news, the content covers a very wide range, such as edicts, special expulsions, Taiwan admonitions, hundreds of official folds, etc., anyway, there is no newspaper in the imperial court, they all collect it, and then sell these news to the newspaper in exchange for payment, sometimes mixed with some hearsay. This kind of news is published in tabloids, it is called news, and the Song Dynasty already had the word news, specifically referring to the news published in these tabloids. In the Song Dynasty, this kind of person was called "internal detective", "government detective" and "provincial detective", and it was found in all corners of government offices, even in Da Nei.

Secondly, these newspapers are commercial in nature, and when they are issued, there will be special people to sell them on the street, and "Wulin Old Things" specifically records a small book called "selling dynasty newspapers" in Lin'an City, which shows that the newspaper retail industry is not a new thing, but has become a fixed occupation.

Finally, these newspapers were not handwritten, but engraved, and their circulation was not very small. This shows that after the newspaper, there is already a set of publishing and distribution industry chain, from content collection to retail, no link has its own role. From this point of view, the printing and publishing industry in the Song Dynasty, especially in the Southern Song Dynasty, was still very developed.

The newspaper that Hong Tao wanted to run was larger and richer than the newspapers of the Song Dynasty, not only current political news, but also business and life, and the audience was much wider than the tabloids at this time. And his newspaper was no longer printed in engraving, but overprinted with movable metal type, which was not only cheaper, faster, and clearer. With a ready-made house, ready-made leads, ready-made inks, and ready-made guys, as soon as the editorial staff came and became a little familiar with the form of the new newspaper, after trying to do it a few times, the new newspaper came out.

"Bosom Friend Daily", the name is from Hong Tao again, love is willing or not, and he pays and contributes his own money, of course, he has the right to name it. In fact, Hong Tao also remembered a more deafening and lofty name, but he was afraid of causing unnecessary trouble. Newspapers rely on content to slowly attract people to read, not by their names to wake people up, so it doesn't matter what it's called, even if you call it a shit newspaper, as long as the content written in it yearns for the truth, it is still the truth. If you're full of nonsense and deception, even if you call it Pravda, it's still shit.

"Zhiyin Bao" has only four folio pages, the front page and the second page are current affairs, which are dedicated to publishing domestic and foreign news and commentators' articles; The third edition is a special edition for maritime business, which only talks about the price and quality of various goods and introduces the knowledge of overseas ports; The fourth edition is a special advertising page, as long as it is not a fake advertisement, it can be published according to the different areas occupied by the layout and different costs, and any advertisement can be.

The first issue of the "Bosom Friend" only printed 300 copies, and they were not sold, and all of them were given to acquaintances as gifts, mainly maritime merchants in the city of Guangzhou, each family came with three or five copies, and then left some for Jinhewan and the navigation school, and soon it shone brightly. According to the speed of Wen Hao and his editors, this newspaper can only be issued once a week, and it can be regarded as a weekly newspaper for the time being. It's not that there are not enough people, but there is nothing to write about for the time being, the editors are slowly groping, the readers are slowly getting used to it, there must be a buffer on both sides, you are a daily newspaper as soon as you come up, and tens of thousands of copies are printed, who reads it?

As for how long we can get acquainted with each other, who knows. The newspaper is just an experimental product of Hong Tao, and it can be regarded as an idle chess move, and it can't be counted on in a short time, even if it becomes popular tomorrow and everyone rushes to see it, Hong Tao has no ability to continue to expand circulation. Whaleskin paper is not paper after all, and the cost is aside, and it is much more troublesome to produce than paper. At present, the paper-making workshop has just had a rough plan, and Jinhewan has been turned into an arsenal by Hong Tao, and all the laborers are busy casting cannons, producing gunpowder, cannonballs, and related parts such as cork stoppers and cork supports, and even the construction of new cities has been slowed down, where is there any effort to make paper.

The reason why Hong Tao has been staying in Ximaozhou Port these days is not really focused on education, nor is he worried about the horse farm, but he is staring at the raw materials transported to Jinhe Bay. During this period, the raw materials such as saltpeter, sulfur, cork, and hemp rope in Jinhewan were in an emergency, and Hong Tao began to make a large purchase list for the maritime merchants of the Strait Company in June, and specially handed over the procurement task to them. Fair trading, how much money should be paid, is also a small benefit within the company. However, these maritime merchants' ships could not go directly to Jinhewan to unload their cargo, so they had to transfer them to Ximaozhou to save up enough quantities, and then they would be pulled away by Jinhewan's own ships. Ximaozhou has also become a cargo transit station, Hong Tao must personally check the quality of these goods, the words of the merchant are the most unbelievable, and his father dares to be blind. (To be continued.) )