It must be that the eldest princess ran to Zhao Kuangyin to make trouble, but she didn't get any benefits, this is what Song Jiu expected a long time ago, and some things can also be seen that it is Zhao Kuangyin's own sister, which seems to be very good, but she actually seriously analyzed the treatment that Zhao Kuangyin gave her, and the treatment given to the Gao family was not too thick.

It's no wonder she can get this justice back.

Therefore, she went to her younger brother to make trouble again, and Zhao Kuangyi probably made her unable to make trouble, so she called herself over to ask. Song Jiu is not worried, this is the right matter, it just so happened that he had a new idea yesterday, I don't know if Zhao Kuangyi will agree. So he took two paintings and went to Kaifeng Mansion.

Zhao Kuangyi is not guilty, this matter is his sister Qu Li, unreasonable, but he didn't say anything at first, let Song Jiu sit down first, and said: "Song Jiu, you once said that the Tang Dynasty Mo knife was forged with the hundred-fold method. ”

"Yes, it is said in the annals of history."

"But the Ministry of Industry sent someone to test it, and the effect after forging was not so significant."

Sharpness is not enough, it must be very, very sharp, so that a person with great strength can go down with a knife, and even the man and the horse will be split in half, including the armor on the person. Song Jiu bent down and was happy.

"What are you laughing at?"

"Really trying? The second king, that is a metaphor of the minister, the Mo knife technique is not only a hundred folds of steel, but also a problem, that is, alloy, in ancient times, there were six Qi, six points of copper and one point of tin, so the ritual weapons made are bright and the weapons are sharp. The name of the Tang Dynasty Mo knife is 100 folds, it is actually impossible to do 100 folds, so the cost of labor has increased, although there are not many Mo sword soldiers, only a few thousand, plus Mingguang armor, with the financial resources of the Tang Dynasty can not pay at all. ”

Zhao Kuangyi's forehead, tried and tested, one hundred catties of steel, or the new steel transported from the steel supervisor, only seven or eight catties of steel are left after one hundred folds, if you add a huge amount of labor, the cost of a Mo knife is at least seventy or more, a catty costs two thousand Wen, if you waste a little more than three thousand Wen! With this cost alone, it can't be promoted, unless only a thousand Mo swordsmen are created, what role can a thousand people play on the battlefield? It was not used to deal with the Southern Tang soldiers, but the stronger Khitan soldiers!

"The second king, where is there another problem, alloy, Wei Chen thinks that the Tang Dynasty must have added some other metals to it, and then dozens of folds were forged, and the name became a hundred folds. It's a pity that after the Anshi Rebellion, this technique was lost, and there is no record of the Tang Army's Mo knife. Also lost is the three-edged arrow of the Qin people, although it is imitated, it does not have the power of the three-edged arrow of the Qin soldiers. However, Weichen thought that weapons on the battlefield were secondary, and the important thing was the quality of the army, the command ability of the generals, and the determination of the imperial court. Wei Huo and the two of them crisscrossed the desert north, using Central Plains soldiers, and Li Jing's 3,000 broke through more than 100,000 Turkic soldiers, and they still used Central Plains soldiers. At that time, there were no Mo knives or three-edged arrows. The Khitans eat meat and are physically burly, but there is no shortage of warriors in the Central Plains. They excel in physique and horsemanship, and the Central Plains excels in the number of civilized economy and population. Compared with the two, the Central Plains has the upper hand, mainly psychologically, this hurdle cannot be passed. ”

Song Jiu came to the Song Dynasty, and the martial arts masters could not see it, but because the people were all heavy work, there were really great manpower, which reminded him of visiting the Terracotta Warriors and Horses in his previous life, the spears unearthed in the Qin Dynasty were seven meters long, and the ancient Greek mountains and mountains also had spears that were several meters long. The narrator is talking nonsense, saying that it is difficult to level the end of such a long spear, let alone the assassination of Doctor Liberty, there must be some arrangement in this. In fact, it's really nonsense, there are people who can do it in this era, including the Mo knife of the Tang Dynasty, the heavy armor of the Song Dynasty, the whole body armor plus weapons sixty or seventy Song catties, the Song soldiers wear it and run with it, and fight like that.

That is, the soldiers are not weaker than the Khitans in terms of physical strength, what the Khitans are like, Song Jiuzhen has never seen it, but I believe that they can't all be Bruce Lee, so it's worth it!

"Alloy?"

"The second king, the court should be interested, and Weichen can take the time to start researching, but the court can't have too much hope, and it will spend a lot of research funds. When the time comes, the money will be used, and Wechen has not studied it, so don't blame Wechen. ”

Zhao Kuangyi smiled.

I won't really let Song Jiu study Modao, but Song Jiu said that the imperial court also had this idea, and I tried it, but I didn't try it, Zhao Kuangyi asked by the way. Then he got down to business and said, "Song Jiu, you are so bold, you dare to bully the imperial sister." ”

What bullying the imperial sister, Song Jiu didn't take it seriously at all, he didn't hurry to tell what happened, and then said: "The terrain outside the East Water Gate is very important, but not only the terrain, the reason why the minister made that bet with His Majesty has a variety of meanings, one is that Weichen is sure to do it, in fact, there are all kinds of tall buildings in the west, where the people built a garden in the air, and then in order to pilot, built a lighthouse more than 400 feet high, its height is half higher than the Ming Hall of Luoyang Wu Zhou. Business is not necessarily what Wechen is good at, but Physicology is what Wechen is good at. Just like Bashu gave Lu Xianggong governance, and stability can be restored after a few years, what if General Wang continues to govern? Therefore, this management power will not be released to any government, so as not to cause some contradictions. ”

"But the imperial sister is the eldest princess."

"The eldest princess can't do it, even the two kings and His Majesty can't, unless it is stopped at the beginning. I only say two meanings, the first is the tax of our dynasty, in fact, the income of our dynasty is no less than that of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty, when there were nine million households in the Tang Dynasty, and our dynasty removed Bashu and Jinghu, and there were only one million households. Why the people have no pressure, first, the monopoly, although the monopoly has led to the rise in the price of tea, wine and salt, it is just a burden on the whole people, and even the prime minister has to bear it, which is equivalent to sharing the pressure of the poor people. The second is to focus on commerce and levy commercial taxes, which were almost blank in the Tang Dynasty, but the imperial court got very little. The third is to collect taxes throughout the country, not just the poor as in the Tang Dynasty. As a result, the country's income has increased, but the people have not complained. This is the present, and it happens that An Shi and the Five Dynasties will destroy all the wealthy families in the Tang Dynasty, but what about the future? Many officials are doing business, and how much tax they pay. In the long run, the number of people increased, and the arable land also increased, but all walks of life were monopolized by the powerful and did not pay taxes. As the number of people and territory increases, the number of officials must increase, the number of soldiers must also increase, the expenditure will inevitably increase, and the lower levels will not be able to pay taxes, so they will have to put pressure on the common people again, and the situation in the late Tang Dynasty will be staged again. ”

"Some officials don't talk much."

Song Jiu knew in his heart that from this year onwards, especially when Lu Yuqing went down, Wang Ren was in charge of vegetables, and Zhao Pu was in charge, and the two began to have some contradictions.

"Second king, I'll show you another picture," Song Jiu opened the picture of the gold shop and said, "Second king, look at it again." ”

"What's the secret?" Zhao Kuangyi asked suspiciously, there are also gold and silver silk shops in the capital, can this shop turn silver into gold?

"The second king, it is not those gold shops in the capital, if so, Weichen will not list them separately. Since ancient times, copper has been mined for copper smelting, how much copper has been mined? Why has our dynasty been short of money, including the Southern Tang Dynasty? Part of it was the copper that was oxidized and corroded into utensils, some of it was buried in the ground as funerary goods, and some of it was buried in the ground by the people to prevent theft, and then something happened, and they never came out. But where is it not put in the ground? Lending usury is black-hearted money, and you must have the ability to put it. There is also a charge for putting in the cash drawer, and if you don't use it after a few decades, you can get back one-tenth of it, and it's good to be able to get one-tenth back. Its appearance is to solve this problem for the imperial court. ”

"Tell me about it."

"This can only be regarded as an idea of Weichen, it is not mature, and it is useless to say it, but when the time comes, the initiative must be handed over to the court and jointly operated. But it can't all be given to the imperial court, the officials are unscrupulous, corrupt, can't operate, or fish the people, but will cause many incidents. It is operated by private individuals, flexible and mobile, and the efficiency is improved, and the court supervises and does not dare to prey on the people, and private entry can not only benefit the people, but also benefit the country, and can also solve part of the problem of money shortage. Accelerate commercial circulation. Wechen talk about business, since ancient times, some businessmen are not very good, but the development of commerce can make the local economy active, feed more people. Another role is to communicate with each other, and with the involvement of businessmen, advanced production methods and civilizations can quickly enter backward areas and develop the whole country. ”

"Okay, don't talk about the big truth, just talk about this gold shop."

"Second king, come here with your ears."

"You," Zhao Kuangyi was so angry that he wanted to kick Song Jiu again, but in the end, he attached his ear to it, and Song Jiu whispered about it, this can't be appetizing, it involves a lot, and you must be mentally prepared from now on.

"Okay?"

"Okay, but I don't want to cause too much trouble, I have to think more carefully, now the state taxes less than 10 million catties of iron, gold, silver, copper, lead and tin a year, if it is run well, just this shop can be worth all the country's pit and mine income."

"It's very troublesome, but it's a good idea," Zhao Kuangyi thought about it, the more wonderful he felt, and he suddenly said: "This official knows the way, and the Tang Dynasty also ran a flying money." But it's not as nuanced as yours. ”

"It's pretty much the same as that. Now that the country has just been established, there are not many powerful people involved in usury, and most of them are former rich businessmen, and the contradictions will not be too prominent. ”

"Let me take a look," Zhao Kuangyi looked at the picture carefully, what could be seen from this, but Song Jiu also brought a picture, Zhao Kuangyi also opened it, and asked strangely after reading it: "Why did you bring this Hongqiao map?" ”

"The bridge is about to start, Weichen went down to see the steel supervisor, and yesterday he took the students to measure, budget materials, and suddenly had an idea, but the budget will inevitably increase, I don't know if the court will agree."

"What thoughts?"

"I'll draw it for the second king."

Song Jiu began to draw with a pen, he is not a painter, he can only draw a sketch against the original drawing, the double rainbow bridge moved back, the choice is a narrow place, it doesn't matter, if it is really wide, you can build a dam, reduce the distance between the bridge and the hole, if the rainbow bridge on the water in the future, most of them will use this method, otherwise it is impossible to build a bridge with a span of several hundred meters, can be repaired, too waste of money. This does not move, but between the two rainbow bridges, it was originally a road that fell on the river island, but now it has been changed, and all the 60 zhang roads are bridged, and a total of ten piers support the bridge deck. Then the Hongqiao is divided into four approach bridges, so that the river island is connected with the bridge deck. Little Hongqiao hasn't changed much, it's not the main channel.

What has changed is the big Hongqiao, with two tall piers on one side, and then twelve thick steel bars stretching out, four pulling the ground on both sides, four grabbing the opposite bridge, and four grabbing the bridge in the middle, that is, the simple wire drawing bridge plus the rainbow bridge. It can not be regarded as a real wire drawing bridge, playing a part of the wire drawing role, the theme of the bridge is still based on concrete steel bars, supplemented by stone, but the quality is wood, reduce the weight of the bridge body, and now there is an advantage, there will be no dozens of tons of trucks, the maximum weight is only about 1,000 catties, the quality requirements for the bridge will not be as high as later generations, and there will be no single cable weighing 110 tons.

In this way, the height of the bridge can be dialed up several meters, and there are eight big characters on the two piers outside: Jinghua Fanjiu, Zhao Song Yongchang. Then shape a golden dragon on the side of the bridge.

This time, it will be ten times more beautiful than the original double Hongqiao, to the Shaoda Hongqiao that really becomes a flying bridge, if the water level is low, and the water surface can be more than ten meters high.

But the money used is also several times.