Chapter 119: Make great efforts
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Seeing that Yelu Hongji was about to taunt Emperor Baihe, Zhao Ji hurriedly said: "Since you haven't come, it's better to set up a competition like today, and once every three years in the future. Not only competitions, but also other competitions. The capital of the Chinese Empire was Tianjing, and Youzhou dialect became an official dialect, and now all countries will not have this official dialect, and countries can hold official dialect competitions in the future. There are also calligraphy, poems, songs and dances, horns, etc., all of which must be tested in Tianjing. ”
"And polo, horse racing, archery." Yelu Hongji added.
"Chess, Go, Keju." Seeing that Yelu Hongji tried his best to talk about some projects that the Liao State was good at, Li Qiande, the king of Jiaozhi, also added.
"Javelins, climbing, and racing are not bad." Duan Lianyi also said the project that Dali is good at.
Next, each country competes to name what it is good at. Sriwijaya didn't seem to be very good, so he could only talk about the canoe rowing on the water.
"Good. That's it. There are all kinds of projects. Triennial. Let's try it in Tianjing. Raised by the Holy See. Zhao Ji said happily.
"Okay." With the approval of the monarchs of the member states of the Chinese Empire, the alliance of the Chinese countries was successfully concluded.
After another three days, the monarchs of various countries set off for their respective countries, and Zhao Ji went to see them off. During these three days, Zhao Ji and Yelu Hongji talked secretly for three days and three nights, eating and sleeping together, and no one knew what they were discussing. Whether it was the courtiers of the Liao State or the courtiers of the Song State, they were all guessing what the conspiracy of the two monarchs could achieve? But it can only be speculation, because Zhao Ji and Yelu Hongji both decided not to mention what they were discussing.
At the port of Huangpu, Yelu Hongji returned to Liao. Zhao Ji went to see him off in person, and arranged his own special boat dragon boat to send Yelu Hongji back to China. After Yelu Hongji left, Li Bingchang also left happily with the three million guan that Zhao Ji personally took out from the inner library. Zhao Ji subsidized Li Bingchang with 3 million guan, mainly to further consolidate Li Bingchang's throne. These three million guan can give him the ability to form an army that is absolutely subordinate to himself.
The dispute over the etiquette of the Western Xia Dynasty and the Han Dynasty ended with Li Bingchang's victory, the Empress Dowager Liang withdrew the curtain, and Li Bingchang was in power. However, the army was still in the hands of the Empress Dowager Liang. For Zhao Ji, a Sinicized monarch is much more reassuring than a vassal like Empress Dowager Liang.
One of the major factors in the success of this alliance was that Yelu Hongji and Li Bingchang were both monarchs with a very high degree of sinicization, and they shared a common language with Zhao Ji.
After Li Bingchang left, Duan Lianyi, the king of Dali, found Zhao Ji and talked secretly for a day. Again, no one knows what exactly they are talking about. However, when Duan Lianyi, the king of Dali, returned to Dali again, he was not alone, and there were 30,000 elite border guards given to him by Zhao Ji.
Duan Lianyi, the king of Dali, is the king of Dali who has been hollowed out, if it were not for the joint pressure of Liao, Song, Xia and other countries, this time the alliance may not come. This time, with the 30,000 elite border guards given by Zhao Ji, there is an army, and with the title of King of Dali, it is not difficult to regain power. Only by regaining power can the covenant of this alliance be fulfilled.
The Japanese emperor Shirakawa doesn't seem to care much about the political situation, but he cares very much about Su Shi's life. Every day, I have to go to Su Shi's mansion to see and give gifts. The current Su Shi is no longer the historical Su Shi, the historical Su Shi's official career was not smooth, and he was poor, and the current Su Shi is the counselor of the Political Affairs Hall, the official of the Song Dynasty, and the rich man second only to the Prime Minister Shen Kuo.
There is less time to write poetry, but government affairs have always been busy. It was not until after the end of spring ploughing that Su Shi went to Japan for a friendly visit with the Japanese Emperor Shirakawa. Xue Yi, the eighth town of the Great Song Dynasty, led 5,000 sea guards to go together. This is not just a visit, but also a mission.
Many travel novels and travel to ancient times, because of the hatred of Japan in later generations, the first thing to fight is Japan. However, in the Song Dynasty, there was no need to fight at all, and a letter of surrender could be done. In this era, Japan was like China in later generations, and the admiration of foreign countries reached the extreme, and everyone was proud of being a Song person, and they all looked forward to becoming a Song person, so that one Su Shi could conquer the whole of Japan. The state of mind of the Japanese is almost the same as that of Yelu Hongji: in the next life, he is willing to be a commoner of the Great Song Dynasty.
Zhao Ji gave Su Shi two tasks: one is to promote friendly exchanges between Japan and the Great Song Dynasty, accelerate the process of sinicization of Japan, and help the Japanese emperor to carry out the same changes as the Great Song Dynasty. The second is to help Japan quell the rebellion in the northeast and conquer Ezo. Hokkaido was established on the island where Ezo was located, a large castle was established, and the fishing industry was developed, and the Hokkaido fishing grounds in Japan were to be operated in the same way that the Zhoushan Fishery in the Great Song Dynasty was operated.
The Great Song Dynasty now needs more grain, and the planting industry cannot be developed in a short period of time. However, with the current shipbuilding industry of the Great Song Dynasty, the fishing industry developed very rapidly. After the development of the Huguang area and the mountainous area in the southwest, the number of wild animals will continue to decrease, and it is impossible to rely on hunting for meat for a long time, but the fishing industry will not weaken, and the sea is an inexhaustible wealth.
Didn't the Holland in history rely on defeating the British, seizing the British North Sea fishing grounds, and finally becoming a sea coachman? The fishing industry feeds almost the whole of the Netherlands. Now, one-third of the meat in the Great Song Dynasty is fish, especially in the past two years, the food crisis in the Great Song Dynasty is serious, and a large amount of imported marine fish is needed.
The end of the Huaxia Alliance also means the beginning of the ten-year governance plan of the Great Song Dynasty, and both Zhao Ji and the ministers of the political hall are working hard to govern the country, and they have to be busy with smoke every day. After dealing with the affairs of Liao, Western Xia, Dali, and Japan, Zhao Ji began to arrange the problems of Huangtou Hui and Qingtang Tubo.
Considering that it was not a military conquest of the Huangtou Hui and the Qing Tang Tubo, Zhao decided to temporarily let them govern. Zhao and Dong Yu made a deal and agreed to their autonomy, but they wanted to pacify the Duomi region in eastern Tibet.
The Duomi region in the eastern part of Tibet, also known as Tusi Kang, was the western region of Sichuan in later generations. It is now full of tribes, ruled by slave owners, large and small, and completely in a state of anarchy. What Dong Yu has to do is to empty that area, whether it is to kill all the people there or migrate all of them to Qingtang.
After emptying, Zhao Ji will let the government hall immigrate from Chengdu Fu Road. The population there, according to the analysis of the political affairs hall, is less than 200,000. The reason why it was to be emptied, and then hòu immigration, was to completely incorporate that area into the territory of the Great Song Dynasty. The immigration policy is quite practical, the area will be tax-free for 10 years, and the people who have migrated will receive immigration subsidies.
As for the Hui and Qingtang, Zhao Ji set up the Hehuang Road, and did not set up political envoys, but only stationed 30,000 troops. With Kumamoto as the commander and Wang Shao as the military advisor, he began to prepare for the western expedition.
The reason why Zhao Ji allowed the autonomy of Huangtou Hui and Qingtang Tubo was that the road was impassable, so what Wang Shao had to do was to build a gallop road from Qinzhou to Qingtang City and then to Huangtou Hui to Mangya City. Only this galloping road can make Huangtou Hui and Qingtang Tubo completely surrender and completely integrate into the Great Song Dynasty.
After arranging the affairs of Huangtou Huifu and Qingtang Tubo, Zhao Ji discussed the issue of agricultural development in the Great Song Dynasty with the political affairs hall. Zhao supported Wang Anshi's agricultural development program.
First, a large number of people on both sides of the Yellow River will be migrated to the south to further enrich the population of the south, especially the population of the four roads around Huainan East and West Road, Jiangnan East Road, and Liangzhi Road with Jiangning Mansion as the center, so as to expand and develop this economic center.
Second, the Yellow River, Zhanghe River and other rivers should be dredged, and with the help of the Yellow River, the silt fields should be vigorously developed, the area of cultivated land should be reduced, the construction of pastures and forest farms should be increased, and the management mode of single agriculture should be changed. The so-called silt field is the use of the method of breaking the water to infiltrate the fertile silt brought by the river into the field, so that the damaged soil can be restored to fertility.
The Yellow River carries a large amount of soil, which is washed down by the topsoil, which contains a lot of organic matter and is very fertile. Wang Anshi's plan is to build more than 3,000 artificial waterways to connect the Yellow River, and when the water level of the Yellow River soars, open the water valve to let the Yellow River water pass through these 3,000 artificial waterways, and silt up all the fields on both sides of the Yellow River. In this way, it not only plays the role of flood discharge, but also irrigates the farmland.
In normal times, the water valve is closed, and a large number of boats are sent to stir up the water of the Yellow River, so that the river water can carry away the soil instead of depositing it as much as possible. However, due to current technology, this measure is not very effective.
The remedy is to keep the soil from entering the Yellow River. Therefore, in addition to the fields, all other cultivated land, especially in the hilly and mountainous areas, is used to grow fruit trees, or to grow pastures, and to develop forest farms and pastures.
Wen Yanbo objected to Yu Tian's approach because the project was too big. The benefits can be seen naturally, but the capital investment is really amazing, and with such funds, it is better to strengthen the construction of the Yellow River dam. Wen Yanbo's opinion was naturally affirmed, and Yutian is a long-term project, and it is necessary to continue to strengthen the construction of river dams in the short term to prevent flooding.
Third, in the south, especially on the four sides of Jiangning Prefecture, focus on the development of polders. A polder is a type of farmland built in a low-lying area near a river or lake. This plan is very important, because it is the stable and high-yield polders that supported the economic development of the Southern Song Dynasty in history.
Although the polders have stable and high yields, they are very dependent on the construction of water conservancy projects. Because the land is cultivated in low-lying areas, it is extremely easy to be irrigated by rivers and lakes. The Yangtze River is not so easy to get along with, and if there is a big flood, there is not enough low-lying land to store water, and it is not impossible for the Yangtze River to flood the city. Moreover, once there is a big flood, all the polders will turn into an ocean.
For this reason, this polder project is even larger than the field project, which is to build a dense water conservancy network in an all-round way, and to build a polder dam to prevent the backflow of rivers and lakes like a city repair. This is more expensive than building hundreds of Shangjing cities.
However, if the south wants to develop, this polder cannot but be built. The development of Shangjing is also due to the construction of polders. Polders have incomparable advantages in resisting drought and flooding and ensuring stable and high grain yields. In the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, as well as near the coastal zone, the polders are connected together, forming a spectacular scene of competing with the river, the lake, and the sea.
In order for the economic center centered on Jiangning to develop, it is necessary to develop polders.
Fourth, the development of terraced fields in the southwest, the so-called terraced fields are to build farmland along the mountain range, and hòu to build a reservoir on the top of the mountain and irrigate it with mountain water. The scale of the development of terraced rice fields is not large, and the main purpose is to ensure that the southwest region can be self-sufficient in grain. The main development in the southwest region is tea planting.
Fifth, with the development of fields and polders as the center, complete water conservancy projects will be built, including rivers that can play a role in transportation. Wang Anshi's method, in addition to widening and deepening the Sui-Tang Grand Canal, in the central and western regions, build two more Grand Canals like the Sui-Tang Grand Canal.
Sixth, the Chi Road will be overhauled across the country, so that the wide Chi Road can at least connect every county in the Great Song Dynasty.
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