The year of Jingkang in the Great Song Dynasty is a strange year, this time should be March 1130 AD, in the Hangzhou Mansion of the Great Song Dynasty, the situation here is different from the appearance of any place in the Great Song Dynasty, the city wall of Hangzhou City reinforced by cement is sixty meters high, huge and heavy! But this city is not the most prosperous and lively.

The factory area that has spread to Lin'an County is the most lively, people from all over the neighborhood have rushed here to work, and the towering chimneys under the Turtle Mountain are lined up, constantly emitting black smoke! There are horse-drawn carriages and some strange-shaped cars running on the road, relying on the roads of Hangzhou City in all directions.

There are balloons full of colorful flags floating in the space, and the advertising slogans and slogans of the merchants and trade names floating in the sky are swinging in the wind, concentrated in the city of Hangzhou, and the pleasure boats in the West Lake of Hangzhou have also become using the paddle steamers emitting black smoke, and the boats on the Qiantang River are weaving, and the steam-powered machines of the paddle steamers have become the largest products sold by the Mo family.

There are many wharves in the port in Hangzhou Bay, there are many ships in and out of the port, there are hand-cranked boats, there are paddle boats, there are galleons, and there are steamships emitting black smoke, in the dock near the bay, several huge black ships are being manufactured, due to the widespread use of steam power, here is also a chimney to make up, black smoke curling! Everything is full of evil beauty!

Xiao Ming is sometimes very worried, there is more and more black smoke in the sky, is this an environmental pollution? Ding Jianpeng told him that any industrial country would have to risk environmental pollution at the beginning, and it was only because he did not think of this in the first place, and many factories were built in a hurry, and it was almost impossible to become a factory without a steam engine.

In terms of the textile mills of Richanglong, large-scale textile machines have been the mainstream, and there are six boilers and several chimneys in a textile mill alone, not to mention, steel mills, cement factories, glass factories, paper mills, match factories, nitric acid factories, arsenals, etc., and some small factories, all of which need steam boilers!

Just now the ships that transport coal to Hangzhou every day are lined up, and the coal trucks on the road are also lined up, and some related industries have also developed accordingly, and even many small factory owners have appeared, who are engaged in sugar extraction and grain processing! All of them will use steam-powered engines, because every steam engine sold by the Mo family will help the owner to design a power transmission device! As a result, more small factory owners came to the door and ordered boilers.

And the production of the entire boiler is all produced in Gu's refinery! and then sent to the Mo family's workshop, this has almost become an industrial chain! The land around Hangzhou was first annexed by large and wealthy households, and peasants who lost their land would go to various factories to work, but eventually these lands were gradually bought by the government, but now they are flowing back again, and gradually they are being bought by large families like Ri Changlong.

The dependence on land is higher than others, and he needs to establish his own cotton and linen and sericulture breeding base, so Ri Changlong almost became the largest landlord in the southeast! This is beneficial to Xiao Ming's next plan, he acquiesced, considering the planning problem, Xiao Ming decided that it would be better to consider the environmental issues now.

So the planning plan was automatically released, that is, the factory area must be close to the coastal zone, and no longer occupy the land around Hangzhou, some heavily polluted factories, must do a good job in sewage remediation, like Ding Jianpeng's chemical plant has been able to produce concentrated acid and alkali, this is a must be noted!

So the original factories in the Moganshan area need to be moved, Xiao Ming specially approved a special amount of funds to build a cement road from Hangzhou to the coastal coast, factory demolition subsidies and land requisition costs, Richanglong is also responsible for a part, and the other is responsible for the Hangzhou government, and now the prefect of Hangzhou has no rights at all, and Xiao Ming does not bird him at all.

Xiao Ming is a second-grade official appointed by the imperial court, and he is also the minister of economic management and industry who controls the money and grain of the five roads in the southeast, so he definitely has the right to dispose of officials below the fourth grade, who dares to offend him! So it's too late for these officials of the government to talk to him! How can he have nothing to do to oppose some of Xiao Ming's actions, this is the benefit of power, Xiao Ming almost wants money, money, power, and power, and it is very simple to do anything, not only the government supports, but also financial support.

Holding absolute power over the Hangzhou City and Quanzhou City Ship Division, Xiao Ming decided to take action on a large-scale overseas trade, and a huge fleet of up to 300 ships led by Ri Changlong set out from Quanzhou to the countries of the South Seas. Tianzhu. Ceylon and Da Shi marched, but after the fleet marched to the South Seas countries, it had to return as soon as it arrived in Siam and Tianzhu, and there was no reason why the goods were sold short!

In addition to silk, the goods carried by this voyage also included the porcelain of the Great Song Dynasty, and Xiao Ming's layout of the entire porcelain industry finally saw results, and the cargo fleet full of specialties, jewelry and spices from all over the South Seas returned, Xiao Ming couldn't help but be furious when he learned that the caravan actually made the best porcelain for overseas trade!

At that time, the porcelain of the Great Song Dynasty, in addition to several famous kilns in the north, the porcelain in the south was also a fine product, the brother kiln and the brother kiln in southern Zhejiang, as well as the porcelain of Jiangnan West Road, that is, Jingde, Jiangxi and other places were all famous kiln boutiques, and the general folk kiln products were also quite good.

According to Xiao Ming's instructions, overseas trade is the process of product dumping, and you can't take your best things out, but you have to dump the second- and third-rate or even inferior goods you produce, and because the fleet of six or seven ships of Richanglong is all steam-powered and sail-powered big ships, and the speed is extremely fast, so that most of the ships can't catch up, and have to stop and wait for them.

That is, I don't take anyone else to play, it just so happens that a big ship named "Changlong" was launched, and Richanglong already has eight large and small ships, plus two escort warships, this time the fleet of only ten ships set off again, and the target is the port of Cairo, Egypt, which is clothed in red!

This time, in addition to a small amount of fine silk, all of them are some ordinary quality porcelain, bamboo, wood and other things, and then there is a seven-piece set of Taiping! The cotton cloth introduced from Tianzhu, due to the strong textile and printing and dyeing technology of Richanglong, the product quality is much better than Tianzhu! A large number of products are intended to be exchanged for goods such as ivory and rhino horn gemstones.

It used to be a sailboat with the help of the southeast monsoon, but now there is no need for the Richanglong fleet, and you can go when you want! This made many merchants and sea trade bigwigs jealous, and finally began to order steam-powered ships from Hangzhou Shipyard! And a medium-sized merchant ship with a displacement of about 500 tons was sold for a high price of 750,000 taels of silver! When it is officially delivered and launched, it will probably need to decorate the interior and paint waterproof paint, etc., which may cost 800,000 taels of silver at that time.

But compared to the huge profits brought by this kind of ship, it is really nothing! As a result, within a short period of time, a large merchant in Mizhou ordered one, a wealthy merchant from Guangdong also ordered three, plus two ordered by a wealthy local merchant in Hangzhou, and the Hangzhou shipyard started to build six steam-powered sea ships at the same time!

Hangzhou's career is simply thriving, from March to July, the development of the Hangzhou base is almost like a rocket, rapid development, Xiao Ming seems to finally be able to breathe a sigh of relief! But in fact, he didn't relax for a moment, and even when he was playing with his son, he was thinking about the outcome of the entire military preparations!

According to the historical progress, after the first attack on the Great Song Dynasty, the Jin State began the second attack in less than three months, but now it has been seven or eight months, and the Jin State still has not moved, has history changed? is still because of his own fate, because he has been thinking about whether to accumulate strength first and then counterattack Liaodong.

But in fact, the war between Song and Jin was far from beginning, which Xiao Ming did not know, and the trigger for the Song and Jin war was caused by the stupidity of Emperor Qinzong.

In August, Emperor Qinzong sent a special envoy to Hangzhou to bring Xiao Ming a letter written by Du Yan, a scholar of the University at the behest of Emperor Qinzong, saying that in recent times, the Jin State had continuously sent envoys to the Great Song Dynasty to demand war reparations for the Jin-Song War.

Wanyan Zongwang naturally will not give up the results of the peace talks that Emperor Qinzong promised at the beginning, in addition to the tribute silver, silk and satin are indispensable, of course, the time of beauty can be invalidated, but the agreement of ceding the three towns promised by Qinzong at the beginning is what Wanyan Zongwang cares about the most, so he keeps sending envoys to ask.

The Jin envoy claimed that if the Great Song Dynasty was unwilling to fulfill the original agreement, the Jin State should take it upon himself! For this reason, Qinzong and the ministers of the court were very angry, but they still did not want to start a war with the Jin State again, so they found a compromise method, claiming that the land of the three towns would be lost by the Great Song Dynasty, and they were willing to take the money to redeem it.

This is also humiliating for Qinzong to say anything, of course he is not willing to do this, so he actually came up with an idea, wanting to unite the remnants of the Liao State that was destroyed by the Jin State to deal with the Jin State together, and he found Xiao Ming to let Xiao Ming write a letter to Yelu Dashi who was in the Western Regions, inviting him to attack Jin together.

For this Xiao Ming, he only smiled bitterly, Yelu Dashi has indeed established the Great Liao regime at present, and the land is currently in the original Liao State Sticky Bage Region, and then there is the entire Black Khanate region, which has actually been beaten by Xiao Ming's Yang Qizhong, Yelu Dashi is taking advantage of the weakness, and the Black Han Kingdom has since collapsed.

But Xiao Ming knew that Yelu Dashi was actually Ami behind him, and he really felt a little guilty about this former sister in his heart, although the two almost turned their faces in the end, but they were not completely speechless, but Xiao Ming didn't want to be involved in this anymore, because it was too complicated, and he sometimes felt a headache when he thought about it!

But Qin Zong didn't think so, and he even found out that Xiao Ming and one of the current ministers of the Jin State were brothers of the Eight Worshippers! This person is Xiao Zhonggong, the envoy of Jin State Xuanhui, and Qinzong means that he wants Xiao Ming to persuade Xiao Zhonggong to oppose Jin in the name of his brother, but Xiao Ming is not too willing to do this, he knows that Xiao Zhonggong has a bad impression of the Great Song Dynasty, and he has always thought that Xiao Ming is a Liao person, and he knows that he is a person from the Great Song Dynasty, Xiao Ming does not know what Xiao Zhonggong will think.

Xiao Ming euphemistically conveyed this concern to Qinzong through the imperial history Qincha, signaling that Qinzong did not need to be too accommodating to the envoys of the Jin State, and the diplomacy between countries could not be imagined too simple, as long as the deployment of troops in Bianjing was strengthened, the Jin State would not dare to launch an attack rashly at present.

But all this did not come as quickly as the stupidity of Qin Zong and a bunch of idiot ministers, and the destruction of reason was as persistent as a moth to a fire, and Qin Zong did something that surprised Xiao Ming......