Time flies like a white horse, and in a blink of an eye, it is the end of the seventeenth year of Chunxi.

In this year, there were obvious signs of prosperity in the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Tuan sat on the emperor's throne, and with all kinds of exciting news coming in, Zhao Tuan rekindled the pride of his youth.

Originally, Zhao Tuan had the idea of becoming the emperor in the fifteenth year of Chunxi, the reason was that the Northern Expedition was hopeless, and the diligent government year after year was still a conservative situation. Once upon a time, Zhao Tuan was really ready to find an appropriate time to simply hand over the shift to his son Zhao Dan.

However, there are always unborn talents emerging in every era, just in the fifteenth year of Chunxi, it seems to be God's arrangement in the dark, so that Mao Geng brought a surprise to the Great Song Dynasty, and then, the Great Song Dynasty suddenly showed vitality, in just one or two years, one miracle after another, so that Zhao Tuan was a little dizzy. Now, Zhao Tuan can conclude that even if he can't succeed in the Northern Expedition in his lifetime, in the hands of the next emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, he will definitely recover the homeland of the Central Plains, and even the sixteen states of Yanyun that were betrayed by Shi Jingjiao.

If it is said that the Great Song Dynasty was still very jealous of the Jin soldiers before, then, after Mao Gengming artillery, the situation has changed, and the so-called "offensive and defensive change of situation" is the situation that it means, since there is an amazing power of artillery, the Great Song Dynasty has faintly changed from a military disadvantage to a military advantage. And with the advent of muskets and the gradual equipping of the army, it can be said that it is only a matter of time before the Jin soldiers are fully overwhelmed in military strength.

If the capture of Taiwan is a big step forward in the maritime strategy, then, after occupying the large island of Luzon, Zhao Tuan realized that this world originally contained huge opportunities. Moreover, from a moral point of view, compared to those primitive lives that were still stuck in slash-and-burn farming, the civilization of the Great Song Dynasty can indeed be called a high mountain, and to use the fashionable words in the newspapers, the Great Song Dynasty had the responsibility to lead the uncivilized aborigines towards civilization. From this point of view, the Great Song Dynasty is completely famous, hanging the people and killing crimes, saving the people from fire and water, which is also said.

From this point of view, even from the perspective of righteousness, it would be absolutely irresponsible for the Great Song Dynasty to retreat like those pedantic people after taking Luzon and let the natives of Luzon fend for themselves. As a responsible civilized power, the Great Song Dynasty must not engage in such an act of abandoning chaos from beginning to end.

But the question arises again, and it is clearly worth considering what kind of governance method Luzon should adopt. If in the past, needless to say, most of them were still the same set of fetters, even in Qiongzhou, it is still in that state, and all the Li people live in it, all of them follow the fetters policy. However, Taiwan has basically completed the transformation of the land in the traditional sense in a year and a half, and this is obviously worth learning from. Of course, the most shining thing is the Kaohsiung Special Economic Zone, the results achieved by this "special zone" are really very special and dazzling, so that in Zhao Tuan's mind, there is a hypothesis, if there are more such special zones, what will the Great Song Dynasty look like!

In the past year and a half, the Special Administrative Region has absorbed 25,000 troops and saved the imperial court more than 2 million yuan in military expenditures, and this is a long-term effect, and it will be able to save 1.5 million yuan in military expenses every year after that. As for whether the reduction of the Xiang army will affect the overall military strength of the Great Song Dynasty to resist the Jin soldiers, of course, there is no need to worry about this, cannons and muskets are invincible in this era, and now in the Great Song Dynasty army has been equipped with hundreds of cannons, as well as thousands of muskets, and Yue Ju has been transferred back to Lin'an, Chen Yujie, who commanded firearms effectively, also went to Lin'an with the army, I believe that with the evolution of time, the firearms troops of the Great Song Dynasty will be more and more, stronger and stronger, with a batch of elite soldiers and strong generals, just wait for a certain time to come, At that time, the golden soldiers can be wiped out in one fell swoop. Since they are now taking the road of elite soldiers, the box army of the Great Song Dynasty that spends a lot of money on military salaries can continue to be dismantled.

In addition to its contribution to the armament, the SAR's contribution to the national treasury is also surprising.

The imperial court's cement production was astonishingly profitable; under the condition that the output of cement had repeatedly risen, the cement production output of the SEZ had reached 170,000 tons, the price of one ton of cement had reached 15 percent, the revenue had reached 2,450,000 percent, and the profit had exceeded 1 million percent. The cement in the special zone is still expanding its production capacity, and the cement plants in Fujian, Lin'an and Sichuan are also in operation in June, which will win higher profits for the imperial court. As for the timetable, the revenue has reached an unimaginable more than 4.2 million guan, and the profit is more than 3 million. This does not count the income of Taiwan Song Haimao, plus the income of Taiwan Song Haimao's three million, Zhao Tuan has no reason to be unhappy. In addition, there is also copper, zinc, and manganese mining presided over by Xin Qiji, which is also closely related to the Special Economic Zone, and Xin Qiji has also digested 20,000 troops here, and has also won more than 2 million profits.

The Great Song Emperor Zhao Tuan has reason to be happy, compared with the Great Song Emperor, Mao Geng made a lot of money, glass, soap, matches, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, car and shipbuilding are all big profits, plus the new perfume, textile and fashion projects after the lady crossed the world came to the Special Economic Zone, and of course the speculative income on stocks, all of them are all calculated to make the Mao Group's income more than 6 million.

Having said that, in this year, Mao Geng encountered the biggest challenge since the time travel, because suddenly there was a group of time-travelers, and Mao Geng, who was caught off guard, was extremely nervous for a while, but the crisis passed quickly, and the time-travelers formed an alliance of cross-bounds, and the alliance formulated the priority principle of first-come, first-come, first-come, Mao Geng was fortunate to become the supreme leader of the time-space crossing, and then, the cross-border formed a community of interests.

Of course, in Mao Geng's mind, the crisis has not really passed, and in the days to come, some unstable variables 6 will continue to be interpreted. For example, Lu Yijian is a variable that is difficult to grasp, this kid is now in Lin'an, and he seems to be mixing well in the imperial court, who dares to guarantee that when this kid gets his will one day, there will be no demon moths! Let's talk about Rodman, a foreigner, who is always clamoring to go to Australia, which is really non-stop.

On the side of the Kra Isthmus, Ma Fen and Han Huanzhang with a group of rabble from many countries have been expanding their territory along the Kra Isthmus, the indigenous tribes are not the opponents of this gang, but the natives moved the real wax rescuers, fortunately, Ma Fen has a good command, and there are "meteor bullets" to cheer, and in the end, the real wax soldiers and horses did not take any advantage, and had to withdraw the troops gloomily, of course, this is also because the city has been overwhelmed by a large number of soldiers. As a result, the situation on the Kra Isthmus has stabilized for the time being.

Liu Wenbing led two ocean-going ships, all the way to the west, to India to run a trip, trade is still second, Liu Wenbing claimed that this is only a voyage, even so, Liu Wenbing did not run in vain, the silk porcelain of the Great Song Dynasty is still quite sought after, sell silk porcelain, buy cotton, spices and the like, calculate accounts, make a lot of money. Liu Wenbing then returned to the town of Haqin on the west coast of the Kra Isthmus, which corresponds to the west coast, and the port on the east coast is named Malay Town, which is a respect for history.

Krama Road has been repaired a wool road, and the east and west coasts are connected, but this road is full of mud when it rains, and it is obviously far from the requirements of the traversers, so the traversers of Kra Isthmus claim that it is completely imperative to build Qin-style rails. On the side of the Kra Isthmus, the construction of roads and construction at this stage must be a burning of money, but it is not useless, at least, it is a great boost to India's trade. According to Liu Wenbing, the cotton purchased in India can be temporarily stored in Haqin Town, and the same is true for other Indian substances, the distance from India to Haqin Town is very close, if the shipping only needs to run the Indian Ocean route, I believe that there are a large number of Indian, Middle Eastern maritime merchants can open up short-distance routes in the Indian Ocean, in the same way, the east coast of Malay Town is not far from the coast of China, and it will also attract a large number of merchants to open a route from China to Malay Town. With the help of Krama Road, Haqin Town is fully expected to become a worldwide trade hub in this time and space.

In theory, this is certainly true, but so far the Kra Isthmus has not shown any particular appeal, with only a handful of affiliates and merchants supporting the concept of a hub in action.

At the insistence of the Krabang crossers, the construction of concrete rails has begun. Sadly, the track width of this track has a somewhat bizarre width value: 2.222 meters, which is not without basis for what has been derided as the second broadest gauge in history.

When it comes to broad-gauge railways, there are many railways with a width of 1435 mm compared to the popular track width in the world, Russia and Central Asian countries including Pakistan all use 152o (1524) mm gauge, while Spain and India have wider tracks of 1676 mm. However, compared to the record-breaking broad gauge that has survived in history, these are floating clouds. Among them, the Great Western Railway (greatesternRai1ay) designed by the French engineer IsambardkingdomBrune1 was built with a rare 214omm gauge, which is called "invincible broad gauge". Why is it called Invincible Broad Gauge? That's because when the track is wider, not only does the stability of the train become much more stable, but the interior of the carriage becomes spacious and comfortable.

But no matter what, the 2.14-meter broad gauge is already very outrageous, and this section of the broad-gauge railway in history was later picked up by the British and replaced with a 1435 gauge width, which shows that the 2.14-meter gauge width is not welcomed. Unexpectedly, Han Huanzhang's guy didn't think that 2.14 meters was not wide enough, so he had to come up with the second number of 2.222, isn't it a waste! But Han Huanzhang was unanimously supported by Krana's gang, who argued that a track width of 2 to 2.5 meters is the most scientific. Mao Geng is the kind of person who is good at talking, and there is the support of Lao Qiu, who thinks that the broad gauge is more in line with industrial art, so this strange broad gauge is also declared to be open.

It can be seen that despite the discordant noises such as the crossing realm, there has not been any major storm after all, and the situation is generally under control.

In Mao Geng's view, he didn't feel particularly satisfied, but in the eyes of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, Mao Geng and the Special Economic Zone were simply a miracle against the sky. "Anyway, the miracle created by Mao Geng in the Special Economic Zone has become the focus of the Great Song Dynasty, attracting the attention of countless people in the Great Song Dynasty, many people are attracted by the Special Economic Zone, although they are far away from the sea, they still travel thousands of miles to the Special Economic Zone, and it must be said that in the past year, more and more people have gone to the Special Economic Zone.

Including the emperor Zhao Tuan in the deep palace, he couldn't help but have some expectations, wanting to see with his own eyes what a magical picture the SAR really looks like.

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