In the eyes of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, the three-year period from the third year of the Great Song Dynasty Qingli to the sixth year of the Qingli was dull. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ//。 qΒ5。 c0m//

However, in the eyes of some well-intentioned people in the Great Song Dynasty, the dull time of the three years of the Great Song Dynasty was the fastest three years of the Great Song Exhibition.

With the arrival of 100,000 laborers, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute has directly expanded by three times, and its scale does not look like the yamen of the imperial court, but like a satellite city of Bianjing.

A medium-sized wharf was erected near Bianshui, which was made of cement and could accommodate 20 large sand boats.

The prosperity of the wharf of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute can be compared with several wharves in Bianjing, almost every day there are hundreds of sand boats moored, transporting cement raw materials brought from the various roads of the Great Song Dynasty, and then transporting all kinds of finished cement to the various state capitals of the Great Song Dynasty, the daily ship flow brings commercial prosperity, so that the businessmen of Bianjing are very greedy, as early as the beginning of the fourth year of Qingli, many businessmen in Bianjing coordinated with Zhao Lei, and spent huge sums of money in the wharf of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute, built a lot of restaurants and shops.

The Pan family restaurant on the wharf of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute is invested and built by the wealthy Pan family in Bianjing, and is one of the top restaurants on the wharf of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute.

In the box opposite the wharf of Panjia Restaurant, Zhao Lei, several officials of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute and the staff around him were solemnly staring at several sand boats that were being loaded.

"Of the thirty artillery pieces that have just been cast this month, twenty will be left in Bianjing, and ten will be loaded and transported to Luzon Road, where they will be received by the navy on Luzon Road, five of which will be directly equipped on the Luzon Navy warships, and the remaining five will be equipped on the Quanzhou Port Navy warships." Xue Xiang, who was in charge of external affairs at the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute, reported to Zhao Lei, who was standing in front of the box window, with an account book in his hand.

"In the past few years, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute has secretly sent 300 artillery pieces to Luzon, and even if the Quanzhou Navy divides half of them, 150 guns are enough to equip twenty or thirty warships, enough to form a fleet. I don't know how powerful the artillery can wield after equipping the naval warship. Zhao Lei looked at the huge wooden boxes that were being loaded on the dock in the distance. Said with some emotion.

"Luzon is too far away from Bianjing, and there is a vast sea in the middle, and it takes seven months to take a boat from Bianjing to Luzon downwind, and it will take at least ten months if there is a headwind, and it will take at least a year and a half to come and go, so it is inconvenient to contact! In the past two years, the pigeon feeding technology has been very mature, but the carrier pigeon does not have the ability to cross the sea and cannot be used at all, so Luzon sends news to Bianjing every month. But it's just outdated news, and the ghost only knows what the latest situation is. "Ou Xifan has returned to Bianjing from Western Xia, and now he has served as a member of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute. Responsible for all news communication, hearing Zhao Lei's words, he immediately replied.

"Listening to the maritime merchants of Luzon in the past, the south is not very peaceful now, since the Song Dynasty opened up the South China Sea waterway, the sea has become more and more reachable, and the sea has become more and more wealthy, which has aroused the envy of other countries in the South China Sea. The navy stationed in Luzon by the imperial court diligently exterminated, but it was invincible, and now the maritime merchants. Without the escort of a few armed sea vessels, they did not dare to go to sea to trade, and the imperial navy in Luzon, although well-equipped, faced pirates who could flee at the slightest touch. But there was nothing to be done. Nowadays, the maritime merchants of the Great Song Dynasty are much more risky than in previous years. Su Xun stood behind Zhao Lei. Seeing the sand boats secretly transporting artillery away, he said with some sighs.

"Yes! In the past two years, I have heard that the merchants in the south have made a desperate bet on the sea and committed suicide after being sacked by pirates, it seems that this sea is indeed very dangerous, and I don't know what the navy of the imperial court is doing, the navy with hundreds of guns is not easy to deal with those pirates, and it is really a grievance to the prestige of our artillery to support the Luzon navy. Su Xun's side Pang Bai smiled and said jokingly with a wine glass.

"Why should a huge person be happy with us, my brother General Pang Song is serving in the Luzon Navy, compared to the matter of piracy, the huge man knows better, it is better to solve the confusion in our hearts." Ding Du, who is nearly forty years old, has lived in Inner 6 all his life, and has never been to the south of the Yangtze River, let alone pirates in the South China Sea, so he asked Pombo curiously.

"In fact, there is nothing unusual about pirates, these sea thieves are like thieves in the mountains, wandering with ships and the sea, looting when they encounter merchant ships, and fleeing when they encounter naval fleets, pirates' sea ships are no better than warships, sacrificing sturdiness and load, strengthening and flexibility, faster than merchant ships and military ships, so merchant ships are unlucky when they encounter pirate ships, and the naval fleet can't catch up with those pirates, plus the pirates' dens are extremely secretive, so the Luzon Navy has nothing to do with pirates, but now the pirates are not strong, Many large merchants in the south have more than ten warships to escort them, and pirates dare not provoke them at all, while small maritime merchants take refuge with sea merchants, and the itinerary is quite safe, only those who have just joined the ranks of maritime merchants will be stupid enough to run a few merchant ships to sea, and they can only say that they are too stupid when they encounter pirates. Pang Bai, who was born in Quanzhou, is naturally a veteran maritime merchant in his family, and the powerful Pang family caravan has never dared to provoke pirates, so he replied with a sneer of disdain for those maritime merchants who were looted by pirates.

Seeing that Ding Du wanted to ask again, Zhao Lei interrupted his question with a smile and said: "Okay, no matter how rampant the pirates in the south are, can they still loot the 6 lands, the South China Sea is too far away from Bianjing, and the pirate matter will be handed over to the navy of Luzon!" Let's take care of the Northwest! ”

Zhao Lei's mouth said about the northwest thing, refers to the imperial court's policy on the Western Xia, since three years ago the Great Song Dynasty's strategy of cooperating with foreign sanctions against the Western Xia has been thoroughly implemented, in just three years, the Western Xia has been completely isolated, it is difficult for the merchants of the Western Xia to get out of the territory of the Western Xia, and the four surrounding countries of the Western Xia represented by Song Liao are strictly blocked all the passages into the Western Xia, and severely crack down on all kinds of smuggling caravans, three years of sanctions, the domestic market of the Western Xia can not even find a silk clothes, ordinary cloth clothes have been sold to sky-high prices, More Tangut people resumed the custom of wearing animal skins. Although private smuggling caravans have rarely appeared under the crackdown of the imperial court, the smuggling activities of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute, which the official Zhao Zhen nodded and acquiesced, are flourishing in more secretive circumstances.

The Western Xia was made miserable by the sanctions of Song Liao and other countries, but under the high-pressure rule of Yuan Hao, it still stubbornly resisted the sanctions of the four countries, but even though Yuan Hao's wrists were all over the sky, the sharp contradictions within the Western Xia were becoming more and more serious, and the country lost the conditions for attacking foreign enemies to alleviate the contradictions.

Compared with the declining Western Xia, the increasingly powerful Great Song Dynasty made the surrounding countries a little frightened.

On the day of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, it vigorously promoted the cultivation of Champa rice, which could be doubled or even triple cropped in the south a year, so that the Great Song Dynasty had no worries about grain and grass; In terms of policy, the support of business and agriculture made the Great Song Dynasty have begun to see the prototype of capitalism in China, and the high economic development has made the Great Song Dynasty have no worries about money; The only thing that the Great Song Dynasty, which had money and food, lacked was a strong military force.

Powerful military power! Zhao Lei felt a headache when he thought of the current political pattern and policies of the Great Song Dynasty.

Although the Great Song Dynasty has an army of one million, but the treatment of soldiers is very low, the salary of an ordinary soldier is barely enough to feed a family of three, and the grassroots generals such as the army commander can only support five to ten relatives, this kind of salary is not even comparable to the workers of an ordinary workshop.

In addition to the economic treatment, the political treatment of the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty was even lower, and the highest official position of the generals from the Great Song Dynasty soldiers was only from the third grade, and only Wang Deyong was the only one, and he was also suspicious of the ministers of the imperial court, and the ordinary generals could achieve the five-grade official position is already the limit, that is, the imperial relatives from the Jiangmen, there are very few who can break through the five-grade official position.

There is no way to have money, let alone power, who is willing to join the army of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, so the quality of the Great Song army has always been not high, and it is not surprising that the military strength is weak.

If you want to change a country's military strength, strong equipment is not the most important, although the Great Song Dynasty now has the most advanced and powerful weapons, but in Zhao Lei's view, the Great Song Dynasty is currently more than enough to resist the enemy and not enough to attack, and the most fundamental reason for this situation is the lack of quality of the Great Song army, want to change this situation, enhance the political status of the Great Song Dynasty soldiers and improve the salary of the Great Song Dynasty soldiers is the simplest and most effective way, but this method, Zhao Lei deeply knows that it cannot be implemented at all.

Zhao Lei stood by the window and pondered, Su Xun and the others quietly looked at the dock outside the window, waiting for Zhao Lei to return to his senses.

At this moment, the door of the wing room was pushed open, and a short and fat governor of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute walked in, interrupting Zhao Lei's contemplation and saying respectfully to Zhao Lei: "My lord! People came to the palace to say that the official family was looking for an adult to go to the imperial palace to discuss matters. ”

"Deliberations? There is no Hajj today! Isn't something wrong? Zhao Lei heard the words of the visitor, and asked with a slight frown.

"I don't know very well about my subordinates, but I heard that it's a matter from the south." The governor of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Institute replied to Zhao Lei.

South! Thinking of the south Zhao Lei can't help but think of the biggest turmoil in Lingnan during the Northern Song Dynasty Nong Zhigao incident, in September last year, Nong Zhigao, the enemy of the Great Song Dynasty in the next few years, founded the country of Nantian, is now fighting against the enemy of the father and the enemy Nan'an Li Dynasty, and after Nong Zhigao defeats the crusade army of the Nan'an Li Dynasty, this Zhuang ethnic minority will start the journey against the Song Dynasty, but Zhao Lei has long been prepared for this, not only sent Yang Wenguang to Lingnan four years ago to lead the army to take precautions, but also in recent years, many elite border troops have been sent south to Lingnan, He also sent a few civilian officials who were familiar with military affairs to Lingnan to assist Yang Wenguang, and now there are about 40,000 Great Song soldiers in Lingnan, and Zhao Lei seems to be enough to deal with Nong Zhigao's turmoil.

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