Chapter 839: Offended the Kong family

Don't despise people who make war money, if you want to make war money, you must do at least two things, one is that the production capacity is sufficient, you can have as much as you want, and the other is full of self-confidence, no matter how much wind and rain outside, you can't blow it on your head. It would be a shame to raise a tiger and even be bitten back.

These two points are the same thing, as long as your production capacity is strong enough, you can arm dozens of times, hundreds of times the troops, you are safe, you can have an elephant-like physique on the grassland, even a lion will be helpless.

So throughout the autumn and winter, Wang Ning'an mobilized more than 2,000 craftsmen, with more than 100 people such as Xu Yang as the core, and carried out division of labor and cooperation, contracting out different parts of the steam engine, and they were only responsible for assembly and inspection.

Finally, when the snow fell, twenty steam engines were produced.

These twenty steam engines were all sent to the military workshop to replace the original hydraulic forging machine.

From water power to steam power, it brings about a multiplication of efficiency!

Day and night, the cost of manufacturing plate armor has dropped by as much as 70%! Five times faster!

And as the technology matures and the steam engine improves, the effect will be better.

At this point, Wu Shicheng, who was in charge of military production, proposed that the upgrade should be completed quickly, and the army should eliminate armor, swords, and other weapons, and establish a firearm armament.

This suggestion is of course very good, but Wang Ningan thinks it can be slowed down.

First of all, all firearms are replaced, the cost is too high, and the current firearms are not mature. Moreover, the cavalry still has strong combat effectiveness, and it cannot be completely eliminated.

However, it is entirely feasible to appropriately increase the proportion of firearms.

Artillery, guns, all need to be mass-produced.

And what is eliminated cannot be wasted, isn't this just a war! It doesn't matter who it is, as long as you want to buy a weapon, just ask!

Wang Ningan completely let go of his hands and feet.

Among these countries, Bohai is its own people, and if it is not said, it can get internal prices. As for the Wa Kingdom, the price must be clearly marked, and real money and silver must be used to exchange for food.

Although the Khitan eased relations, they were former enemies after all, and if they wanted to take weapons, they had to be two percent higher than the Wa State.

Of course, Yelu Hongji is not two hundred and five, and he will not suffer.

got the weapon from the Great Song Dynasty, changed hands, increased the price by 30%, and then sold it to Goryeo, and made a lot of money! Da Song eats meat, and he also wants to drink soup!

I learned the situation from the mouths of the prisoners on the battlefield, and the Great Song Dynasty was not a vegetarian here, so someone immediately found a way to contact Goryeo, and promised to sell the weapons to them at a discount according to the Khitan price, and promised that they could be compensated with the captives, and a pure Japanese Ding Zhuang could top 10 yuan of money, directly at the dock, pay the money with one hand, and deliver the goods with the other.

Countless adventurers threw themselves into the trade of weapons and slaves.

They calculated that the price of buying obsolete second-hand weapons from the army of the Great Song Dynasty could be twice as cheap, and if they were sent to Goryeo in exchange for slaves, one person could earn 5 yuan, and once and again, after deducting the cost, there would be at least 100 to 120 percent of the profit.

After a few trips, the value can be multiplied several times!

These maritime merchants are simply insane, and they will do everything to encourage the war to continue.

They provided loans to the warring parties, bribed literati, and published battle documents.

For example, in the Wa Kingdom, they advocated landing, advocating changing the fortunes of the country, and even boasted about the Wa king, saying that he was wise and martial, and should rule a wider land, and that the Wa people were industrious and willing to work, and should have a broader living space...... At this time, the Wa Kingdom was basically a cultural desert, they had not yet digested the culture from the Tang Dynasty, and had just introduced Mahayana Buddhism, and as a whole they were still in a turbulent time, and did not form a complete set of value systems.

Don't flicker at this time, wait for when.

Not long ago, the Empress Dowager Cao disposed of the second prince Zhao Zonglin, two months after Zhao Zhen's death, Zhao Zonglin died in a hurry, of course, declared to the outside world that he missed his father too much, fell into the water and fell ill, and was posthumously named King Lu after his death, but in fact, what happened, the big people in the court knew it.

As for Zhang Zai, Ercheng and others who colluded with Zhao Zonglin, because Zhao Zonglin did not have a canonical punishment, they naturally did not want to be executed directly, but Da Song didn't want to mix it up.

Zhang Zai was sent to the Western Regions to educate the savages.

Ercheng was sent to Bohai because he had assisted the Bohai Kingdom before.

When they arrived in a strange land, no one knew them anymore, and they couldn't be exchanged for food or drink!

Ercheng is tragic to the extreme, and it is even more miserable than Song Zhen back then.

All they can do is help the businessmen with the slogans they want to propagate every day, write articles, and go to incite the war.

In the past, Ercheng despised businessmen the most, but now he has to rely on businessmen's charity and do things for businessmen, that taste, it's really indescribable.

No matter how unwilling, there is no way to do it, they can't starve to death, and lose the festival is a big thing.

What's more, it seems that there is no problem of indecency in instigating a group of barbarians to fight, at least the saints have not forbade this kind of behavior...... As a good Confucian, he can always find suitable excuses for his actions.

Gradually, Ercheng even liked the job.

Everywhere they went, whether it was the Bohai Sea, or the Wa Kingdom, or even Goryeo, just for the shining titles of Confucianism, celebrities, talents, and poets, they made others worship them.

Every word they said became a golden rule, and no one questioned it anymore, and some even invited them to become officials, and they were even willing to give the prime minister a high position.

Compared with being unpopular in China, running outside, it turned out to be a new world, and Ercheng seemed both surprised and unexpected.

There is nothing else to say, but to do your best to fool around.

Only in this way can the maritime group behind it be satisfied and get a bigger stage.

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At any time, don't underestimate the power of literati.

Ercheng is in the Great Song Dynasty, which will only add chaos to the change, and it is of no good use at all.

But as the great Confucians who can fool China for thousands of years, their skills are really not covered, in comparison, the three Sus, the eight Hans, and the nine Lus are much inferior.

Ercheng was in Goryeo and told the Goryeo people that they would defeat the Japanese kingdom and restore their homeland, and they would be unswerving and indomitable. When they arrived in the Wa Kingdom, they told them that they would expand their territory, fight for living space, and fight for a strong Wa Kingdom!

According to Zhang Dun's estimate, this battle will end in a year and a half at most.

But with the flickering of the second journey, the situation is very different.

The Wa King, as well as Genji, found that although the battle was brutal, they could use the battle to buy weapons from the Great Song Dynasty, arm a powerful army, and then strengthen their power, suppress other local forces, and even send some families to the battlefield, completely consume them, and eradicate potential enemies.

Moreover, through war, the Wa Kingdom was able to unite itself, and since the reform of Dahua, the declining royal power has been re-strengthened, and with this understanding, the Wa Kingdom has invested more and more deeply and increased its military strength.

In addition, the Great Song Dynasty had helped nearly 100,000 Japanese people settle down in Goryeo and set up a pioneer group, and these people obtained valuable land and had enough to eat for the first time.

They also strongly supported the continuation of the war and opposed the truce.

With the support of these two forces, the will to fight was extremely strong.

On the side of Goryeo, they have long had a feud with the Japanese state, and they hate these Luo Quanleg, short blacks, who covet their land!

Now that the southern territory has been lost, Goryeo is also holding its breath to take revenge, and Yelu Hongji is not a good thing.

He gradually saw Da Song's abacus, but he also had his own abacus.

When Goryeo fights, it needs livestock, horses, and weapons, and the Khitan can make a profit, but what else? Those Jurchens continued to rebel, making him exhausted, although the largest Wanyan was suppressed, but Yelu Hongji also knew that there might be flames everywhere at any time.

So, Yelu Hongji made a decision, he organized the Jurchens and sent them to Goryeo to fight for them! Go and deal with the men and horses of the Bohai Sea and the Wa Kingdom.

Faced with the situation he created single-handedly, Wang Ningan was a little surprised.

Was it a world war, or a proxy war, or something like the Hundred Years' War between England and France...... Anyway, I can't find a similar description, but one thing is for sure, the war was very, very beneficial to the Great Song Dynasty.

In the winter of the eighth year of Jiayou, 70,000 slaves were brought in from the Wa Kingdom and Goryeo...... All of them were put into coal and iron mines, and in just one winter, one in ten people froze, died of exhaustion, and died of disease...... However, correspondingly, Youzhou's coal production has increased eightfold!

The number of steam engines has increased from 20 to 100 in one go!

Next year is after Zhao Shu ascends the throne, the day of the official change, the new monarch's year name has been determined, Zhao Shu personally took it, called: Zhiping!

Governing the country and leveling the world!

The ambition of the little one is not small!

In order to achieve his goal, Da Song's machines had to get up and running faster.

The government hall and the Ministry of Industry have drawn up a plan, hoping to start promoting steam engines next year, not only in Youzhou, but also to expand outward, to reach 1,000 units!

Coal mines and iron mines in various localities should step up their investigations and complete the work of land requisition as soon as possible.

Just when everyone was very busy, someone suddenly found Zhang Dian, and the person who came was none other than Zhang Dian's nephew, Zhang Heng!

As mentioned earlier, Zhang Dian was born in an embarrassing place, although he has been prosperous over the years, but he is incompatible with the Zhang family's clan, and he even pondered that he would give birth to several children, and in the future, he would repair a family tree separately and completely cut him and the Zhang family.

"What are you doing here, you don't do a good job as an official, you leave your post without permission, but you have to be severely punished! You must know that the law of the land is ruthless! Zhang Heng was quite embarrassed to be lectured by his uncle in person, especially since his uncle was two years younger than him.

Zhang Heng's face was full of shame, "Uncle, it's not the little nephew who is presumptuous, it's really the little nephew who has encountered a tricky matter, and he must ask his uncle for help!" ”

Zhang Heng made a lot of trouble, Zhang Dian this guy belongs to the donkey, after all, it is still a family, breaking bones and tendons!

"Don't be so scumbag, like a man, just say anything, no one can bully us yet!"

Zhang Heng was about to cry, "Uncle, it's like this, the little nephew implemented the land acquisition in Yanzhou, but he encountered obstacles, yes, it was the people of the Kong family who did not agree, and drove away all the people sent by the little nephew." ”

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