In the next few days, Zhao Jun went out of the palace one after another to inspect several other Huangzhuang near Bianjing, and got a satisfactory answer.

And just before the Shangyuan Festival, Wei Xian handed over the milk tea business, and Zhao Jun asked Wang Huaien to take care of it back to him to manage.

And just two days after the New Year, the Ministry of Industry has already received all the iron rust, Zhao Jun can order someone to transport things to the port of Caiyun County to load, after the ship departed, the first batch of deposits of the Luo Kingdom officially entered the Ministry of Households.

In less than two months, the goods were received from the country of Luo, and the balance was also put into storage.

A total of 200,000 taels of gold entered the treasury in this way, but Cui Shangshumei died!

And the army that had just received the payment for the goods and went to the south finally returned to Beijing.

The grand welcome ceremony held in the whole capital was once again lively up and down.

The rewards that should be given, and the officials who should be promoted have not fallen at all.

Since then, the imperial court has entered a period of rare calm.

During this period, there was occasional turmoil, but it was also directly crushed under the strong national power of the Great Song Dynasty.

Until......

"Your Majesty! In the direction of Yumen Pass, the Xiongnu invaded the territory again, and the three military forts on the frontier were broken by the Xiongnu overnight!

Several Hun cavalry of about 1,000 people rushed into the pass and plundered, thirteen villages were wiped out by them within three days, and when the border guards gathered troops to encircle and suppress, they went away as if they had gotten the news early!

We didn't see each other at all! ”

On this day, Zhao Jun had just come down from the morning court, and Wang Huaien came to the imperial study with a solemn face, and sent the 800-mile urgent front-line military report he had just received.

Zhao Jun stood up as soon as he heard this, nearly three years have passed since Zhao Jun ascended the throne, since the first year of Xingwu, the imperial court has never used swords, and in the past two years, the Great Song Dynasty has been recovering from the previous trauma.

It was not until three years after the revival of the military that the north finally recovered some vitality, while the south entered the fast lane of development after the landlords and gentry were cleaned up.

Under the leadership of Feiyun merchants, the seven southern counties began a vigorous wave of going to sea.

Mainly in the seven counties of Sunan County, Yanjiang County, Haifu County, Lingyue County, Lingxi County and Caiyun County, coastal trade is in full swing.

Ships of all kinds, whether official, caravans, or private, sailed through the East China Sea to the South China Sea and the Yellow Sea, respectively, and continued to trade.

In the past two years, several shipping routes have been opened, namely the Wa State Line from the East China Sea to the Yellow Sea, and the Luzon Islands Line from the East China Sea to the South China Sea.

In order to protect the interests of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, the imperial court has invested a lot in the water division in the past two years.

In the end, based on the original Yunzhou Military Naval Division, the Great Song Navy was officially formed.

In order to obtain more funds for the coming year, the Tiangong Academy and the Military War Bureau set up subordinate shipyards along the coast after the Great Voyage, and then various new ships of various sizes were constantly released.

Among them, the Tiangong Institute officially applied the steam engine to the ship three months ago and built the first ironclad ship!

And in this way, a large amount of military spending on the Navy next year has been locked.

I heard that after the squire of the War Bureau learned the news, the whole person almost fainted on the spot, and after waking up, he immediately began to embark on the ironclad ship project, vowing to come from behind to develop a more powerful ironclad ship to snatch back the Navy's orders and funds.

And their competition with each other has made today's navy continue to grow, and now the entire Great Song East China Sea Fleet has three large ships of 8,000 materials, 15 medium ships of 5,000 materials, and 60 small ships of 3,000 materials!

That's right! Now a ship of 3,000 materials can only be regarded as a small ship in the navy.

Smaller boats can only be found by the people.

And with the continuous iteration of the navy's ships, the civilian ships are also becoming more and more advanced.

Now the original small boat of 400 materials has been completely reduced to fishing boats, but any caravan of a certain size, you are embarrassed to go to sea without two ships of 3,000 materials at home.

The minimum merchant ships that are commonly used are also about 1,000 materials.

However, I heard that next year, the navy will replace the big ship of 8,000 materials with ironclad ships as top warships.

Then the size of the small ships in the navy will all reach the price of 5,000 materials, and as for the original 3,000 materials, the weapons will be dismantled and sold to the people.

It's not that they can't make it themselves, they have to keep an eye on the court.

In fact, in recent years, the War Bureau and the Tiangong Institute have taken away almost all the shipyards along the coast in order to compete, and they have made every effort to supply the navy for iteration, and many of the ships in their hands have been withdrawn by the navy, or these shipyards will be produced later after the navy's production capacity is satisfied.

Now that there will finally be a large number of 3,000 large ships to be sold, the caravan can win the most, and these two sea routes will be able to win more shares in the future, how can this not let everyone compete?

The first battle after the establishment of the Great Song Navy was a battle with the Zheng family, before which the Zheng family monopolized almost the entire coastal trade rights by virtue of their shipwright.

When the imperial court looked at the sea, it immediately noticed the Zheng family, and then it was a naval battle that lasted for nearly a year.

Relying on the advantages of the mainland, the resources of the imperial court poured down, the strength of the navy continued to grow, coupled with the advanced weapons, and constantly fought with the Zheng family for control at sea.

The Zheng family was naturally reluctant to give up their interests at the beginning, but they were officially blocked by the imperial court, relying on Dayuan Island, without the support of the mainland, and the number of ships was decreasing day by day, and they gradually fell into disadvantage.

Originally, they wanted to go to Wajima to replenish their boats, but they didn't find out until they got to Wajima.

Now it is the imperial court that controls the situation there!

The garrison of the Yunzhou Army directly stopped them outside the island, and they were not even allowed to board the island!

At this point, the Zheng family can only go ashore on Dayuan Island, but the resources of Dayuan Island are limited, and there are many things, coupled with the continuous attacks of the imperial court, the strength of the Zheng family is not as good as day by day.

Finally, after holding out for a year, Zheng Long, the boss of the Zheng family, finally made up his mind and took the entire Zheng family to the mainland to surrender.

When the Zheng family was sent to Bianjing, they were received by Zhao Jun, and then the entire Zheng family's power disappeared completely and merged into the Great Song Dynasty.

Almost all of the older generation of the Zheng family returned to their hometowns to retire, and many ships became warships in the imperial navy, which greatly expanded the navy.

However, many of the second generation of the Zheng family have entered the navy, among which Zheng Shen, the eldest son of Zheng Long, the head of the Zheng family, was directly appointed as the deputy governor of the East China Sea Fleet, according to the news from the imperial court, after the current East China Sea Fleet Governor Li Erniu retired, the twenty-three-year-old Zheng Shen will replace Li Erniu as the governor of the East China Sea Fleet and take charge of the navy.

It is said that this is also one of the benefits given by His Majesty when the Zheng family surrendered to the imperial court.

However, the actual situation is that there are no generals with naval combat experience in the imperial court, and the Zheng family was crushed by their size before.

And Zheng Shen, this kid, is very proficient in naval warfare due to the influence of his father, and Zhao Jun made such a decision after meeting him.

And Zhao Jun, the old seamen who retired from the Zheng family, did not let them go back to retire like this, and set up a naval cadet in northern Jiangsu, with these people as instructors to train new naval talents.

At this point, the naval system of the Great Song Dynasty was simply built.

After the construction of the navy and the rise of maritime trade, the southern economy, which had been sluggish, quickly recovered with the help of maritime trade.

By last year, the commercial tax of the entire seven coastal southern counties alone had reached a terrifying 100 million taels of silver!

accounted for one-third of last year's annual tax revenue of the Great Song Dynasty!

And in such a situation of state affairs, the Huns in the north are actually restless again!

This can be regarded as provoking Zhao Jun's fire.

I didn't have time to pay attention to you before, but I didn't expect you to take the initiative to find fault!

It's really a tiger that doesn't wield, you treat me as a sick cat!

Zhao Jun immediately ordered: "Convene a hundred officials to discuss the matter!" ”

"No!"

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(End of chapter)