Chapter 26: A Blueprint for the Future
Li Xiang nodded and said: "Father, that old man must be a very powerful person, just imagine who the Ding family is afraid of, who will it be?" The child thought, there are not many people in the entire Great Song Dynasty! β
Hearing Li Xiang say this, Li Kang was suddenly shocked: "Remembering for my father, the old man's attendant seemed to have taken a gold medal for Na Ding Meng to take care of, and immediately scared Na Ding Meng Zhao's face changed!" There is only one possibility, that is, the old man we meet today is today's official family! It's just that this possibility is very small, because it is unlikely that the official family will come out of the palace like this and be met by us! β
Li Xiang also realized, as a traverser, he was almost certain that the old man he met today was the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty! Immediately, he was shocked into a cold sweat, fortunately he didn't say anything like fainting, otherwise he would really have no place to die! However, it seems that the emperor is not bad, and it is not like the history books say, the emperors of the Great Song Dynasty are all mediocre and incompetent. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
After thinking for a moment, Li Xiang said solemnly: "Father, there is a good chance that the old man today is an official family, but fortunately, the child did not say anything too outrageous." Alas, I couldn't help myself for a while, and I almost said something critical of the government. When I met an official family today, I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse. β
Li Kang was also frightened, he was just a petty official from the eighth grade, and the emperor could kill his family of two with a single word. However, judging from today's situation, the emperor seems to have changed, and wants to revive the dynasty, otherwise he will not beat away Ding Daquan's nephew, Li Kang also knows that Ding Daquan has won the trust of the official family in recent years, and it is calling for wind and rain in the court.
Li Kang squinted his eyes and said, "Xiang'er, it seems that the official family still values you very much, otherwise they wouldn't have written a handwritten letter and asked you to go to apprenticeship." In this way, you have to work hard, if you can't be promoted, you will live up to the trust of the officials. If you get the Jinshi, or even enter the palace examination, then the official family will be very happy, and your future will be bright. Xiang'er, you have to work harder, this time is not much, and you will have to take the autumn test soon. In a few days, my father will take you to visit the king and the grandson, if you can enter the country's prison, it will be much easier. β
Li Xiang nodded and said, "Yes, father, the child will definitely work hard." It was not too early, so the child would retire first, and the father would rest early. β
Li Kang waved his hand and said, "Well, you go!" β
Back in his own room, Li Xiang couldn't sleep after tossing and turning!
Since God has arranged for me to come to this era, should I do something? Otherwise, isn't it too sorry for the crossing arranged by God? But in this precarious late years of the Southern Song Dynasty, he was just a small person, what could he do? If the trend of history had not changed, Emperor Lizong would have died in a few years, and the Southern Song Dynasty would have been destroyed by the Mongols more than a decade later!
If you want to change the historical fate of being destroyed by the Mongols, Li Xiang feels that it is too difficult! Now the imperial court is a traitorous minister, and the roots of the entire Nanning political system are broken.
The Southern Song Dynasty, as the richest, most technologically advanced, and culturally developed era in Chinese history, has many theories about the reasons for its eventual demise. One of the most agreeable is that the Mongol cavalry was too powerful, and the Mongol Empire swept across the entire Eurasian continent and was invincible.
Therefore, many people think that the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty was caused by the inability of military strength, but in fact, Li Xiang prefers to believe that the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty was caused by internal causes, that is, political and economic reasons. The army of the Southern Song Dynasty adopted a conscription system. Due to the extremely high productivity of the Song Dynasty, the people engaged in production could create a lot of wealth. The number of professional armies raised by the imperial court is very large, and the number of forbidden armies alone is a very staggering number.
The resulting military expenditures are often staggeringly high. In peacetime, the annual military expenditure reached tens of millions of yuan, and in wartime it was even higher, and I am afraid that only the Song Dynasty could afford such an amount. One can imagine how considerable the military expenditure of the Southern Song Dynasty would have been under the constant aggression of the Mongols, which put great pressure on the finances of the Southern Song government.
Then, like later generations, in order to alleviate the financial crisis caused by huge military spending, the Southern Song Dynasty government issued a large number of huizi in the form of insufficient reserves, which seriously depreciated and the exchange rate between huizi and copper coins continued to fall, which actually caused the bankruptcy of huizi's credit. A series of erroneous economic policies have led to hyperinflation and a severe economic recession, and the state's fiscal revenues have begun to decline gradually, instead of increasing as expected. Years of war completely brought down the originally powerful Southern Song Dynasty economy.
The Mongolian cavalry may be the most powerful army in the Cold Weapon Era, of course, that refers to a direct fight on the plains, and any army in the Cold Weapon Era cannot withstand the impact of the Mongolian cavalry at all. However, if there is a great innovation in military affairs, it can also defeat the Mongol iron cavalry. After all, it took decades for the Mongol Empire to conquer the Southern Song Dynasty, and it also lost the Great Khan MΓΆngke in the Battle of Diaoyu City.
Li Xiang didn't understand military affairs, after all, he was only a small engineer in his previous life, so he felt that it was impossible for him to lead an army to defeat the Mongol Empire. What he can do may be to use the super 3D printer in his body to create some new technologies to drive the development of productive forces, so that the economy and science and technology of the Southern Song Dynasty can develop by leaps and bounds, leaving the Mongol Empire far behind, and even allowing the Southern Song Dynasty army to enter the era of hot weapons in advance. However, Li Xiang knew that he had little time, and soon the Mongol Empire would begin to attack Sichuan.
Of course, the super 3D printer is always just a secret and can't be known to anyone, so Li Xiang can't make a lot of advanced gadgets at once! That would be too ostentatious, and not only would it not achieve its goal, but it could be bad.
The cavalry of the Mongol Empire was very powerful, but that was in the era of cold weapons, and in the face of muskets and artillery, no matter how strong the nomads were, they could only bow to the upper hand. Therefore, in order to defeat the Mongol cavalry on the battlefield, the Southern Song army must have hot weapons.
But how can you get the guns out without arousing suspicion! It will definitely not work with a super 3D printer directly! Li Xiang doesn't know where the printing materials of this super 3D printer come from, so he thinks he needs to get materials from the outside world before he can print! For example, the day before yesterday, the celadon tea cup was printed, perhaps it was porcelain clay collected from the outside world, of course, 3D printing celadon must be a laser, and it was a future technology product, Li Xiang couldn't figure out what other functions it had, and what it could print specifically, only take it slowly.
At present, of course, the most important thing is to help my father reform the official kiln, improve the yield rate, and then develop some new products, such as cement, glass, etc., which should be relatively easy, Li Xiang himself also learned these materials, plus the help of super 3D printers, it should not be difficult to industrially manufacture these very important materials.
Li Xiang couldn't sleep for a while, so he began to sketch out the blueprint for development, which made him fall asleep thinking about it!