In August, all preparations for the war against the Jin State also entered the stage of intensive attack. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the military front, the construction of the military port at the mouth of the Donkey River has been largely completed, and the 108 ro-ro wharves that have been repaired in the first phase of the project can accommodate the simultaneous loading and unloading of 216 medium-sized sea-sea vessels or 72-bow large sea-going vessels.

In addition, in terms of war preparedness, Huang Jie did not pull out the seedlings to help move all the artillery casting workshops in Huangzhou to Hebei, but adjusted the industrial structure of the workshops in Hebei, first unified the weights and measures of the two sides, and then the casting of precision parts such as artillery chains, cannon buttons, and shells was still placed in Huangzhou, and the workshops in Hebei were mainly responsible for the casting of some stupid large group components, and also expanded the scale of the gunpowder workshop.

As for the last question, it is not in the Great Song Dynasty, but in Goryeo.

At the beginning, when they heard that the Great Song Dynasty proposed to send craftsmen to build roads for Goryeo, the Goryeo people were very happy, and even said that the news reached Kaegyung, and the king of Goryeo was happy to hear it, so he was happy in the palace, singing and dancing.

However, after Huang Jie's side sent the plan to be delivered by sea, the Koreans were not happy. Originally, the Goryeo people heard that the Great Song Dynasty was going to send people to help Goryeo build roads, thinking that it was the kind of "help" given to craftsmen, and when the craftsmen sent it, the Goryeo people wanted to build roads and roads, and if they didn't want to build roads, they could do anything else, and even repair as they wanted.

And after taking the plan, the road to be built in the Great Song Dynasty turned out to be a road across the Goryeo Peninsula, and the specific route was to reach Xijing along the Datong River from Nanpu in the southwest of Xijing, and then go northeast to Wonsan, and the Goryeo people did not do it.

First of all, Nanpu is just a small fishing village at this time, and it seems that there is no population of 300, and although Xijing is called Beijing, but because of these wars between Goryeo and the Jurchens, the war will burn over from time to time, so that the people's livelihood of this city has withered several times, and now the total population is not 50,000, and Xijing goes to the northeast, not only there are no cities along the way, there are no towns, only some small mountain villages, and the scale of Wonshan is smaller than Nanpu, and the local population is only in the early 200s recorded in the household register.

Therefore, the Koreans believe that it is completely worthless to build such a road!

What's more, it is clearly stated in the plan that this road is called "Song Li Friendship Road", and the Great Song Dynasty sent craftsmen and provided 300,000 yuan to build it, but the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty will be guarded by the army of the Great Song Dynasty and be responsible for safety, while Goryeo needs to pay 30,000 hired laborers, of course, the wages and accommodation are responsible for the Great Song.

That is to say, the Great Song Dynasty not only filmed the craftsmen, but also naturally sent troops, and also paid the people of Goryeo for food and lodging, which could never be agreed.

Soon, the Goryeo side sent a minister named Yin Zongyi to cross the sea to Hebei to discuss specific matters with Huang Jie, this Yin Zongyi looked almost fifty years old, his demeanor looked good, and his Bianliang dialect with a slightly weird tone also sounded good, but the matters he discussed with Huang Jie sounded funny.

Yin Zongyi came up and said: "I, Wang Ruizhi, naturally found out that the intention of the Celestial Dynasty to build this road is related to the Jurchens. It's just that the Celestial Empire wants to build this road, and there are some regulations that my dynasty can't accept! ”

Huang Jie was also patient, so he also asked him: "But I don't know what those charters are?" ”

Yin Zongyi said: "Don't hide it from the king of the county, I am a cheap Goryeo people, and the Celestial Empire wants to use my Goryeo civil service, and it is already a great grace to be able to cover food and accommodation, how can there be any reason to pay salaries." My king's meaning, I hope that the Celestial Empire will hand over the money and property to our dynasty that wants to pay for the civil service, and our dynasty can send more civil servants to help build the road! ”

Huang Jie suddenly laughed dumbly when he heard this, and it was this thing that Goryeo couldn't accept for a long time, so after thinking about it, he also asked: "This king has been to Goryeo, and I don't know how Goryeo is going, so Judge Yin might as well talk to this king." ”

This Yin Zongyi's official position, what kind of left servant shot and household department judge (Shangshu), it is also a Goryeo official, hearing Huang Jie to ask like this, he also opened the conversation box to talk about it, and briefly talked about the customs of Goryeo, and when Huang Jie came to ask the people of Goryeo how much silver they could earn in a month, Yin Zongyi thought about it for a while, and said that the people of Kaijing can earn five or six yuan a month, and the people in the countryside can earn at least three or four times.

When Huang Jie heard this, he also smiled and said: "It turns out that with this, it seems that the daily salary of fifty Wen given by the Great Song Dynasty is indeed a bit low, so ...... If the king informs him, the salary will be increased to 100 wen a day! ”

Having said that, Yin Zongyi's face turned green at that time!

According to the news of the missionaries sent to Goryeo, the people of Goryeo at this time lived extremely hard, and they were ordinary people in Kaijing City, and they could support a large family if they could earn consistent money a month. The people in the countryside were seldom able to accumulate money, and most of the income from their labor was bartered for food.

Therefore, it is not difficult to see that the real problem for the Goryeo court is that the salary given by the Song Dynasty for the construction of the road is as high as 50 Wen Song per day, which will cost the Goryeo court.

And the real purpose of Yin Zongyi's visit this time is to hope that the Great Song Dynasty will hand over the money for the hired workers to the Goryeo court, and then the Goryeo court will distribute it to the people, as for how much those people can make in the end, it has nothing to do with the Great Song Dynasty.

Speaking of which, the Goryeo court really didn't blame them for coming up with such a humiliating thing.

In recent decades, Goryeo has been engaged in local wars with the Jurchen tribes in the north. In the first year of the Great Song Dynasty (1107), the then Goryeo king Ruizong Wang Mata (mata sound YU, Wang Li in "ghosts" needless to say should be homophonic) appointed the generals Yin Qian and Wu Yanzhong as the main and deputy marshals, and led an army of 170,000 to launch a comprehensive attack on Haoladian by land and water in five ways. Although more than 6,000 Jurchen troops were killed, more than 1,000 people were captured, and more than 130 villages were breached, the damage of the Goryeo army was beyond your imagination............ 40,000 were wounded, 20,000 were killed, and more than 10,000 were lost.

Later, after the hanging of Goryeo Ruizong's Wang Mata, his cousin Li Ziqian supported Wang Kai, the son of Ruizong, as the king, Wang Kai was only 14 years old at the time, and his will was not firm and his nature was soft, and the government was controlled by Wang's grandfather Li Ziqian and his henchman Tuo Junjing. In order to continue to consolidate his position, Li Ziqian rededicated his third and fourth daughters as Wang Kai's concubines, formed a party for personal gain, installed relatives and subordinates to hold important positions inside and outside the court, and took the opportunity to frame Zhongliang and eradicate dissidents with his position of power.

Even Li Zi instigated his henchmen and his slaves to seize people's finances and occupy people's land, which aroused the indignation of the people, and the folk circulated the "Eighteen Sons (Li) General King", Li Ziqian heard about it, so he was delusional and tried to usurp the throne. Li Ziqian became the de facto ruler behind the scenes, and became more and more powerful, and because of his excessive despotism, the courtiers were filled with righteous indignation, and even aroused Wang Kai's disgust.