Chapter 6: The King of the Americas
A sea of fire lit up the night sky, dragging more than a dozen complete gluttonous beast soldiers with horses, and 100,000 cavalry troops returned towards the Great Wall. When the Khitans discovered www.biquge.info the changes here and sent scouts to reconnoitre, they only saw the bones burned out, and the gluttony that had been burned into black charcoal made the Khitan scouts cheer, and from then on, the gluttony disaster officially became history.
A month later, Zuo Xiaoyou was promoted to hussar general, and the holy decree that Lin Mei was promoted to the palace marshal came, and at the same time, the wedding card of the hussar general and the palace marshal was about to get married spread throughout the army. The soldiers who had just finished the gluttonous battle rejoiced, and a happy event diluted the fear and exhaustion of the war that had just ended, and everything was going in a good direction.
After the war, the Great Song and Liao fell into a rare period of peaceful coexistence. Originally, the black powder of the Great Song Dynasty had the absolute strength to defeat the Liao State and occupy the territory of the Liao State, but the cowardly Emperor His Majesty did not like to fight at all, and those civil officials who could only slap their beards and horses did not want the military generals to make too many meritorious deeds and press on their heads. The Great Song Dynasty has already emphasized literature and suppressed martial arts, and the rank of Zuo Xiaoyou, a hussar general, is afraid that it will be an achievement in this life, and there will be no gluttonous threat in the future, but I am afraid that the shadowless forbidden army will gradually wither.
But Zuo Xiaoyou doesn't care, the most important thing for him at the moment is to study gluttony. The signal transmission chip of the gluttonous beastmaster has arrived, and the complete dozen gluttons are also placed in the underground laboratory inside the Great Wall. None of the more than a dozen gluttons died, but they fell into a dormant state, so as long as they were cleaned every day and filled with a little liquid food, they could ensure signs of life.
The most difficult thing is the research of chips. After all, this is not modern, electronic technology has not developed at all, so to crack the chip code, you can only start from scratch.
After half a year of fruitless research, Zuo Xiaoyou launched a study movement in his personal name in the Shadowless Forbidden Army. What I learned was not anything that would be beneficial to the country, such as poetry and songs, but mathematics, physics, literature and history.
Although the profession of a soldier is glorious, cultural learning is indispensable if future generations want to live well. The textbooks compiled by Zuo Xiaoyou, Wang Junshi and others are all good things with dry goods, so even if the Shadowless Forbidden Army retires in the future, as long as they learn these things, they can still gain a foothold in society.
In addition, Zuo Xiaoyou decided to provide free enlightenment for the next generation of the shadowless forbidden army, and will give these children five years of compulsory education. After the five-year obligation is over, you can either graduate and enter the society, or you can continue to study, but after the promotion, it is no longer free, because what you can learn there is extremely advanced things, as long as you complete your studies, even if you can't become a human being in this life, at least you can easily support your family.
Zuo Xiaoyou's policy is simply what the soldiers think, so all the soldiers of the Shadowless Forbidden Army are grateful to Zuo Xiaoyou, and Zuo Xiaoyou's reputation in the army is also unique for a while. At least in the Shadowless Forbidden Army, people only know the left and the right, but do not know the Son of Heaven.
Fortunately, Zuo Xiaoyou has been living in the frontier and does not have too many interests entanglement with the people in the court, so there is no need for those civil officials in the court who only know how to make trouble with him. With the prestige of Zuo Xiaoyou in the army, whoever dares to touch him is an enemy of the entire Shadowless Forbidden Army, and even an enemy of the entire Great Song Dynasty military circle. The pros and cons of this are clear to corrupt officials and corrupt officials better than anyone else.
In this way, Zuo Xiaoyou began to cultivate a steady stream of high-quality talents, and then these talents, the top induction into the military scientific research units, and others can also arrange corresponding jobs, to ensure that these people not only have a high social status, but also have a high social welfare. The people of the Song Dynasty paid the most attention to honor, which can be seen from the fact that 100,000 soldiers and civilians jumped into the sea and died after the Battle of Yashan, so social status and social welfare are valued by every Song person, which can make them glorify their ancestors and live a good life at the same time.
But the process took 10 years to complete. Five years of compulsory education, plus three years of paid education, and the top ones also need two years of training before they can enter military scientific research units.
In this process, Lin Mei has given birth to five children, three boys and two girls, these five children have inherited the beauty and intelligence of their parents, and each of them has been the pride of the sky since birth. In order to cultivate these five children well, Zuo Xiaoyou specially invited Wang Junshi to let these five children worship Wang Junshi as a teacher.
Of course, formal compulsory education still has to be the same as ordinary children, and only after completing five years of compulsory education and another three years of paid education can they have the qualification to worship Wang Junshi as a teacher. At this point, Zuo Xiaoyou will not show favoritism for his children, plus he and Lin Mei are both born in the army, and they can't deceive the most, so they are very strict with the cultivation of children.
These five children, from the moment they were able to walk and speak, began to work hard and receive the most basic military training. After the age of five, they enter school and undergo compulsory education. Of the five children, except for the youngest child who can't walk, the other four children all showed superior intelligence and martial arts, so that everyone had to sigh: "It is worthy of being the children of generals and palace marshals." ”
However, Lin Mei gave birth to five children, which will inevitably damage her physical lifespan, so Zuo Xiaoyou asked the top doctors to sterilize her after the birth of her fifth child, and from then on, she didn't have to work so hard.
After more than 10 years of hard work, Zuo Xiaoyou finally has the first batch of useful scientific research talents, so the research on gluttony has also entered the fast lane. In just 20 years, there have been certain results.
In the underground scientific experiment unit of the Great Wall, thousands of scientific research talents are in full swing to carry out their own research, in these different laboratories, there are different equipment, test tubes and the like are the most inconspicuous, and the conspicuous ones are those large electronic devices.
Human wisdom is really infinite, Zuo Xiaoyou himself did not expect that in just over 20 years, Da Song's science and technology started from scratch, and actually produced electronic equipment, with these electronic devices, the research on chips can be regarded as a clue.
Now, the beast soldier's chip has entered the decipherment stage, but there is no specific timetable for complete decipherment. As for the most secret Beastmaster chip, it is regarded as the top secret by Zuo Xiaoyou, except for him and Wang Junshi, no one knows where the Beastmaster chip is? As for Lin Mei and the two female soldiers back then, none of them would talk nonsense. Because soon after Lin Mei got married, she pulled the two female soldiers into the Zuofu and became Zuo Xiaoyou's concubines.
This era was the heyday of the feudal dynasty, and the requirements for women were very high, and if you only married one woman, it would be abnormal. At that time, Lin Mei had just been pregnant with her first child, and she was afraid that Zuo Xiaoyou would go out to drink flower wine, so she took the initiative to pull the two Hejun's own deputies over, so that they could accompany Zuo Xiaoyou when it was inconvenient for them, so that Zuo Xiaoyou didn't have the heart to go outside to look for flowers and ask willows.
Although the two female soldiers were very shy, they happily agreed. After all, it is too rare for a man like Zuo Xiaoyou to have status, both civil and military, and good looks, even if they are concubines, they are much better than being wives to other soldiers.
At that time, Zuo Xiaoyou was very surprised, but under this social atmosphere, he still accepted two female soldiers, after all, they took off their uniforms and were still very beautiful after grooming and dressing, not to mention that the two girls were both deputies who followed Lin Mei since childhood, and their feelings were deep, in order for Lin Mei not to be lonely in the future, Zuo Xiaoyou would also agree.
These two women are also very competitive, giving birth to a son and a daughter respectively, and then quit the army and became a young grandmother in the Hussar General's Mansion, and now they are living a very nourishing life.
In addition to the progress of electronic technology, a large number of talents cultivated by Zuo Xiaoyou over the years began to flow into society, so the first industrial revolution appeared. Although this caused huge environmental pollution, it was the price that must be paid for any industrial revolution. Don't think that only the Republic has pollution, the eagle fruit and the foot pot chicken also had very serious industrial pollution, but it was only later that the treatment began, which made the environment better.
Left and right are not afraid of environmental pollution, but they are afraid that there is no planning. Fortunately, the school told these students from the beginning that the development of industry would cause serious pollution, so the industrial technology with serious pollution must be strictly controlled and planned, and various pollution prevention and control measures must also be followed. In this way, the pollution of the Great Song Dynasty is not as serious as imagined, which is completely acceptable.
But pollution is pollution after all, and pollution will cause diseases, so in recent years, under the organization of the left and the right, medical schools have emerged to study and prevent emerging diseases. Due to the influence of scientific outlook, medical techniques called Western medicine by countless people began to appear, and with these things, Chinese medicine with mixed quality gradually withdrew from the stage of history.
Of course, many good TCM techniques are still officially protected, such as acupuncture, pulse checking, decoction, etc., and these good things must not be lost. Compared with some of the useless remarks of traditional Chinese medicine criticized by later generations, Zuo Xiaoyou is confident that it will do better than that of later generations, and the development of medicine has also entered a benign track.
And with the progress of the Industrial Revolution, railways and trains appeared, automobiles appeared, but the most common ones were bicycles. With the advent of rubber technology, tires have also come into being, so bicycles, a tool that can be ridden even in the most difficult terrain, have become the choice of many people.
However, with the emergence of the concept of "if you want to get rich, build roads first", as well as the emergence of cement, there has been a mighty wave of road construction in the Great Song Dynasty, various wide and smooth highways have continued to appear, and railways linking various places have also been built one by one, which has greatly enhanced the advantages of centralized power. In the past, it would take at least a few months for the central government to send troops to quell the rebellion in those remote areas, but with the help of railway transportation, 100,000 soldiers would inevitably arrive within three days.
In addition, the most gratifying thing is that the shipbuilding industry has also entered the age of steel, and huge steel ships appeared, and then left and right asked for orders to lead a 10,000-strong navy to the American continent. Not for anything else, but for the legendary high-yielding crop.
At its peak, the population of ancient China was only more than 60 million, and there was no more. The reason is simple, there is not enough food. This situation was not until the emergence of high-yield crops in the Americas such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn, and in just two hundred years, the population of China evolved from more than 60 million to 400 million, and then with the phrase 'the power of many people', the population exploded to 800 million in a few decades, and although the population governance began later, the population still broke through to 1.4 billion without any suspense.
This is the role of high-yielding crops, and if there is not enough food, even if people want to have children, it is impossible to feed them. Today, the population of the Great Song Dynasty is only 40 million, thanks to the fact that the south has three or four crops of rice a year, without which the Great Song Dynasty would not have been able to feed such a large population.
When Zuo Xiaoyou was allowed to lead 10,000 soldiers across the Pacific Ocean in a huge steel ship and into the American continent, a whole new world made these soldiers very happy. After that, it took more than half a year for Zuo Xiaoyou to lead the army to sweep away some local natives, occupy a military base, and then send troops to find a large number of high-yield crops.
Needless to say, sweet potatoes and potatoes, the most pleasing thing is the discovery of peppers and tomatoes.
Tomato scrambled eggs, Sichuan-style hot pot, Zuo Xiaoyou has not tasted for decades, when he found these things, Zuo Xiaoyou immediately cooked, made a spicy hot pot chicken, fried a few dishes, and ate a delicious afternoon.
Tears in my eyes! Life is truly satisfying.
With these high-yield crops, Zuo Xiaoyou immediately brought these things back to the Great Song Dynasty, but the military base in the Americas was not evacuated, Zuo Xiaoyou planned to take this place as his future territory, if there was force majeure in the future, he would take people across the ocean and come to the American continent. Anyway, this is still an undeveloped area, and it is not occupied by white.
When Zuo Xiaoyou returned to the Great Song Dynasty with high-yield crops, the whole country was shocked. Crops that yield ten times more than the Great Song crops, this is simply crazy. With this credit, Zuo Xiaoyou once again won the reward. However, it is not the official who is rewarded, but the king of the Americas.
This emperor is very interesting, and directly rewarded the territory of the Americas to Zuo Xiaoyou. There is no way, although the Americas are very large, they are too primitive, and it is impossible for the emperor to let go of the splendid Great Song Dynasty and go to the primitive tribes of the Americas to be the patriarch. Moreover, the American continent and the Great Song Dynasty are separated by a vast ocean, and there are too many dangers at sea, when they go left, there are more than 10,000 people, and when they come back, there are only more than 3,000 people, and they have lost two relatively small sea ships, this damage rate makes the emperor shudder, so there is no pressure on the reward.
Zuo Xiaoyou didn't expect the emperor to be so good, and after thanking the emperor, a ten-year wave of immigration began.
At this time, Zuo Xiaoyou was already sixty years old, and although he still looked like a forty-year-old man on the outside, Zuo Xiaoyou knew that his days would not be long, so after obtaining the fiefdom of the American continent, he began to prepare for immigration.
As long as you immigrate to the Americas, you can not only get a large piece of land, but also get very good educational resources. This is still very attractive to ordinary people, so in ten years, more than 3 million Song people have immigrated to the Americas, so that Zuo Xiaoyou has gained a considerable number of people under his rule.