Chapter 128: Entering Java
Su Shi's method is actually the general practice of Confucianism to educate the people. Zhao Ji thought that the Khitan people and the Dangxiang people were not integrated into the Han people in this way, and they were regarded as Han people during the Yuan Dynasty? In the end, Zhao Ji affirmed Su Shi's proposal and urged the government hall to move the 100,000 households in Dengzhou to Japan as soon as possible to help Japan build a new capital in the Kanto Plain. At the same time, it also allowed the government hall to formulate and improve new laws, so that the Japanese people who moved to the Great Song Dynasty could receive the same treatment as the people of the Great Song Dynasty, so that they could integrate into the Great Song Dynasty.
A month later, Shirakawa, who had completed the reform of cutting feudal domains and establishing counties, took the Japanese daimyo and set off for Kanto with 100,000 troops and millions of people. In the past two years, Japan has purchased many sea-going ships from the Great Song Dynasty, on the one hand, to allow Japan's own maritime trade, and on the other hand, to prepare for the establishment of ocean-going sailors like the Great Song Dynasty. At this time, these sea ships all docked at Naniwa Port, and loaded 100,000 troops, millions of people, and countless grains and grass into the north.
Japan originally had a population of 4 million, but after two years of development, the size of the population has increased rapidly, increasing by more than 1 million in two years. This made Baihe excited, but nearly a million went to the Great Song Dynasty. This made Shirakawa very worried. But as Zhao Ji agreed to relocate 100,000 families of the Great Song Dynasty to Japan, Baihe became excited again, originally because the Song people were unwilling to settle in Japan, so they had to go to the Great Song Dynasty to plant. Now there are nearly a million Song people to settle in Japan, Shirakawa has to be excited, the arrival of these million people, Japan's demographic structure will change, Japan will completely get rid of the state of barbarism, will no longer be short.
If immigrants had almost changed their demographics in the future, Japan would have been regarded as a dead country. However, in this era and in this cultural environment, Japan not only does not have the concept of a dead country, but also is excited that Japan will be able to get rid of the wilderness in the future.
A.D. 1073, Huang Yuan 3790, Xining 6th year, July 20.
If Japan wants to build a new capital, it naturally needs a lot of food, especially after the 100,000 families of the Great Song Dynasty people migrated to Japan, Baihe wanted to arrange for these 100,000 households, and food was indispensable. However, in order to maintain friendly relations between Song and Japan, Baihe knew that the Great Song Dynasty was short of food, so he had to tighten his belt and sell some grain to the Great Song Dynasty.
As soon as the rice from Japan docked at the port of Huangpu in Shangjing, Zhao Ji ordered a southern expedition. Zhao Ji's batch is the second batch, and 300,000 border guards have already been transported to Srivijaya. Zhang Ji, the first assistant of the cabinet stationed in Lingya Prefecture, sent a recital that the Nanyang War was about to begin, and asked Zhao Ji to go south as soon as possible and bring grain and grass supplies.
"I'm sixty years old. I don't know if I can see the triumphant return of the official family. Empress Dowager Cao said with tears in her eyes.
Zhao Ji knelt on the ground, kowtowed to the queen mother of the two palaces, and said: "The grandson is not filial, so he can't celebrate the birthday of the Virgin." ”
"If the official family has this intention, my aunt is very happy. State affairs are paramount. Officials should take care of themselves. The Empress Dowager Gao cried.
"Yes, the boy understands." Zhao Hao replied, and then once again told Zhao Hao, the prince regent, "Brother Hao." After I went on an expedition to the south, the Great Song Dynasty will be handed over to you. What I told you, you must remember. It is necessary to know that it is easy to fight the country, it is difficult to defend the country, it is difficult to share hardships, and it is difficult to be rich and rich. As long as our brothers work together, we can make the people of the Great Song Dynasty rich and strong. ”
Subsequently, Zhao said goodbye to his wife, children, and brothers and sisters. Zhao Ji's eldest sister married Wang Xian, who once compiled a dictionary with Su Shi and others, and was well-known in the Great Song Dynasty. However, this person is romantic, and Zhao Ji saw the eldest sister cry several times. For this reason, Zhao Ji also reprimanded his brother-in-law Wang Xian.
Because it is a concubine, according to the ancestral system of the Great Song Dynasty, the clan cannot hold an official position. Therefore, although Wang Xian also participated in the compilation of the dictionary, it was Su Shi and Foyin who became famous and were promoted all the way, without him Wang Xian. Therefore, Wang Xian was often angry with his eldest sister, and he gave up on himself, and he did not think of entering a civilized school to study knowledge, nor did he think of setting up a workshop by himself.
This time, Zhao Ji deliberately took Wang Xian to the expedition and appointed Wang Xian as the first secretary to follow Zhao Ji. Sometimes, it's really hard to juggle career and family. Zhao Ji integrated into this era, and after entering the role, he also tried to spend as much time as possible on his family. took Wang Xian away, but also hoped that the eldest sister could live a long life. Because in history, the eldest sister died of depression, and Song Shenzong avenged the eldest sister and made Wang Xian angry and died. The current Zhao Ji doesn't want history to repeat itself.
Wang Xian is a talent, and in the memory of Zhao Ji before, the eldest sister was the best for him when she was young. It may be better to let the eldest sister and Wang Xian be separated for a while and calm down the contradictions between them.
All the grain processed by the food workshop has been loaded onto the ship, and Shen Kuo presided over the departure ceremony. This expedition, Zhao Ji is much heavier, after all, whether or not he can conquer the Indian region is related to the national fortune of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is completely different from the first expedition. Although the war was planned to end within three years, Zhao knew that it would not be possible to consolidate the rule of the Great Song Dynasty in India in ten years. And after conquering the Indian region, he may continue to use troops against the Celestial World, and Zhao Ji pondered that he might not have time to return to the Great Song Dynasty and return to Shangjing for ten years. After saying goodbye to the ministers of the political hall one by one, Zhao Ji and Concubine Sun Shangfang embarked on the dragon boat together and set off for the south.
Originally, Zhao Ji was reluctant to take Sun Shangfang south, but in the end, considering that Sun Shangfang and other wives did not agree, he did not have his own career like other wives. Concubine Li Peiling is running the first floor of the world, and Queen Xiang, Concubine Zhu, and Concubine Chen are running the Guangming Pavilion. When you have something to do, you won't be cranky and idle. In addition, the queen mother of the two palaces also asked Zhao Ji to take a concubine south, and there was a woman to take care of her life. After all, women are more careful than eunuchs in many things. In fact, Li Xiang'an, who took care of Zhao Xu, almost became Zhao Xiang's secretary, and Zhao Xiang was used to doing things in his own life, and he didn't want Li Xiang'an to help.
By the time Zhao Ji set off for the south, the Nanyang War had already broken out. The first assistant of the cabinet, Zhang Qi, and the second assistant, Xue Xiang, sat in Lingya Prefecture. Zhou Dong, the second assistant of the cabinet, led 30,000 mountain infantry, 10,000 fire cavalry, 60,000 border guards, and a total of 100,000 troops to attack the city of Jiatoha, preparing to drive the Chola Kingdom out of the Jiatoha region.
Li Chang, the cabinet assistant, led 10,000 sailors, 60,000 border guards and 50,000 sailors of Srivijaya to block the Lingya Strait and defend against the sailors of the Chola State to attack Zhanbei City and Lingya Prefecture. Xiao Yiyuan, the cabinet assistant, led 30,000 sea guards and 100,000 sailors of Srivijaya to attack Java.
Xiao Yiyuan looked at the coastline in the distance with a telescope, revealing a black mountain rock in the midst of the greenery, and there was a city in the faint middle. Xiao Yiyuan knew that it was Coconut City, the capital of Java. Like Sriwijaya, Java was a feudal state with twelve vassal states, five of which were originally Srivijaya vassal states.
60,000 sailors, the great war ships of the Song Dynasty, and countless canoes of the Three Buddhas. The sails were dense and like a dark cloud, putting a heavy pressure on the heart of the country of Java. In history, Sriwijaya once gathered 10,000 warships and 200,000 troops to fight against the Chola State and defeated the Chola State at the Lingya Strait (Malacca Strait). Among them, 10,000 warships refer to canoes. A canoe is a giant tree, which is very similar to the dragon boat of the Dragon Boat Festival of the Great Song Dynasty after it is built, and can carry twenty-four soldiers.
King Murro of Java saw the cloud-like imperial army in front of the port, and his face turned pale. He didn't expect that the Great Song Dynasty would send an army of 400,000 to help the Three Buddhas. He asked himself that he still had a certain understanding of the history of Middle-earth, and he began to be very confident that the Great Song Dynasty would withdraw from the garrison in Lingya and abandon Nanyang. I didn't expect that the Great Song Dynasty would increase its troops, and it was an army of 300,000.
Although he knew that the country was not far away, it was impossible to surrender now, and the only thing he could do was to use the terrain to fight a long-term war with the Great Song Dynasty. Thinking of this, Mu Luo still mustered up the courage to order: "At the moment of the great enemy, all the generals will listen to the order and work together to defeat the enemy army!" ”
All the generals should be in unison! Murro sent the general Pilates as the central army and Shaomut as the rear army, and deployed the camp in the wide ten-mile coastal road between the port and the coconut city (later Jakarta).
The Javanese Navy General Kuhucha has also led nearly a thousand small warships, nearly 10,000 canoes distributed around the narrow harbor, relying on natural reef barriers, ready to surprise the approaching imperial warships. Hundreds of Javanese fireships were already in place, and as soon as the Imperial warships entered the outer harbor, they would be burned. Fireships are an effective way for the weak to defeat the strong.
There are many famous battles in history that were decided by a fire! It is said that the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty were burned by three fires. Cao Cao burned Yuan Shao's granary and unified the north, Zhou Yu burned Cao Cao's 800,000 army, and Lu Xun burned Liu Bei's 600,000 army.
Relying on the terrain, the Javanese sailors are not without the possibility of winning! Moreover, now Coconut City has concentrated all the forces of Java, reaching a total of 200,000. Xiao Yiyuan held a telescope and observed the terrain in front of him, but he heard Hu Zhihai, the commander of the Eighth Town Sea Guard, sigh: "There is no way for the imperial dragon flag to be planted in the head of Coconut City today. ”
Xiao Yiyuan nodded and said, "The commander of the Java Navy is also a master who is proficient in naval warfare!" The order goes down, and today we will not storm the port, but try it first. ”
In a short time, the results of the temptation came out. "Report, the former army lost the battle, our army was burned three warships, and more than 300 people were killed. More than 20 canoes were sunk in Sriwijaya and more than 400 people were killed. Now the front army is blocked outside the port and is not allowed to enter. A scout admonished.
"Probe!" Xiao Yiyuan put down the binoculars and said loudly. At this time, the army was at the front, and the flames were soaring, and it was clear that the ships of the Empire were burned.
"This port is really easy to defend and difficult to attack, the mountains block the view, and the gunboats can't shell it at all. It was impossible to find the hiding place of the enemy ships. Thunderbolts can't afford to waste. Hu Zhihai said intermittently while holding a telescope to check the battle situation.
"No, sixth. If you look closely, the terrain is just too good. Look, isn't it like a pot? The port of Coconut City, which is divided into an inner harbor and an outer harbor, is almost impossible to storm. Xiao Yiyuan quipped.
"Really! Second brother, so you can serve it in one pot? Hu Zhihai gestured with his hand and found that the coconut city and the port were in a large basin, surrounded by mountains, including the port.
"I don't know how my eldest brother is doing in Australia now? Big brother likes the one-pot end the most. Xiao Yiyuan thought of the white waves and said silently.
"The official family is getting more and more confused, and let Zhang Ji, a scholar, be the first assistant of the military cabinet. This first assistant should be done by the second brother. Zhang Qi can be transferred from Jinzhou, why can't he transfer his eldest brother? Hu Zhihai was dissatisfied.
"Don't say it, the official family has its own arrangements, and we soldiers just obey the order. Well, you take some people to check it out and see if there are any other natural deep water areas on the island. Xiao Yiyuan commanded.
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