Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 268: Let’s leave this country and country to Fang’er from now on.

"What birthday gift did the third child prepare for me?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Guangmei took out the latest product of the commercial department of the commercial bank, a heavy and heavy pocket watch that was larger than a breast shield, and took a look at it.

"We have to wait a little while, the time has not come yet."

"Oh? Is there still time? Okay, where are Lao Er and Zhao'er? What birthday gifts do you have for me?"

Seeing this, Zhao Guangyi felt a little aggrieved. He finally saw that the eldest brother and the third brother had their own purposes, and they were all using the opportunity of this ceremony to show off in a high-profile manner. They were really good gifts.

Even he could feel that this time he and the third child had almost no conflicts in their political stances, but the differences between the boss and the third child were becoming increasingly visible to the naked eye.

To put it bluntly, both of them need the support of shareholders. No matter how rich a trading company is, its power is limited. If Zhao San has more, Zhao San will have less.

He really seemed to be a bit unable to get involved in a fight at this level.

What can he come up with?Really can't get anything out of it.

The so-called birthday gifts are nothing more than the overseas treasures he found, antiques from the Han and Tang Dynasties, calligraphy and paintings by famous people, etc. They are really not available, but they are not as innovative as Xue Juzheng.

Naturally, the old lady did not embarrass the second son. This second son did not have much potential. He just became a prime minister and took control of the government. His greatest ability was to promote the political reform of the Song Dynasty and set some for future generations. The methods of our ancestors are nothing more than this.

It is impossible for all three sons to be saints. It is normal for one to be slightly mediocre.

"Where's Zhao'er? What gift did Zhao'er bring to his grandmother?"

Zhao Dezhao, who came back specially from Southeast Asia, is now tanned a lot, looks much healthier, and his brain seems to be much normal. Hearing this, he couldn't help but said proudly, "To tell you what my grandmother said, before Zhao'er came back, he had already The land of 18 barbarian states in the southwest was taken to build an industrial base. The child used these 18 states to offer two great gifts to his grandmother."

After saying that, he clapped his hands, and the eunuchs who had been prepared carried a huge jade stone sculpture that was as tall as a person, and three people hugged it, and came over to show it.

"Look, grandma, my third uncle told me that this is called jade. I am the only one who has it in the world. The jade body is crystal clear and full of water. I specially ordered people to select it day and night, and finally I picked the largest piece with pine carvings on it. Henan Mountain. What you don't know is that this jade is hard but difficult to carve."

When the old lady heard this, she smiled very kindly.

This eldest grandson is really awesome.

My brain finally returned to normal and no longer exploded.

"Okay, okay, I am very satisfied with this gift from my grandson. Work hard and study hard. I think you should stop wandering outside all the time. When you are older, you will come back soon. A country cannot live without a king for a day. We Zhao Song My country is still waiting for you to inherit it, what is the second gift?"

Zhao Dezhao proudly took a fireworks stick from the eunuch's hand, lit it, and then released it into the sky.

"Oh? Are they fireworks? My grandson is interested."

Zhao Dezhao laughed loudly and pointed to the North Mountain in the distance: "Grandma, look."

"Ok?"

After a while, I saw the North Mountain of Nuoda. Suddenly, the sky was filled with flames and explosions occurred one after another. How many explosives exploded on the top of the mountain, which shocked the people all over Luoyang. The tops of Beishan Mountain were all blown up flat!
Zhao Guangmei was stunned. He instinctively found a corner and lay down. When he turned around, he saw that many people, including Zhao Guangyi, had the same reaction as him.

Look at Zhao Dezhao again, with his hands on his waist triumphantly, laughing loudly: "How about it, grandma, vigorous or not, I have been saving for this day since last year. These are the latest high-purity nitric acid cotton made by me in the Song Dynasty." Explosives, hahaha, a total of [-] kilograms, just to give you a blast, grandma, how about it, isn't it very enjoyable! Hahahahaha."

It took a long time before the old lady closed her wide-open mouth.

He glanced at Zhao Dezhao meaningfully, nodded reluctantly and said, "Very good, Zhao'er's gift, I like it very much."

Then he rubbed Zhao Defang's head very seriously and said sincerely: "Fang'er, a country cannot live without a king for a day. The country of Song Dynasty will eventually be entrusted to you. You have to work hard!"

"Ah? Oh oh..."

Zhao Defang didn't know what to say.

Neither his father nor his two uncles were happy to be the emperor. Now it seems that the eldest brother... really doesn't want to be a king.

So, am I really the only candidate?

If he doesn't want to be a leader, then this country will really have to be handed over to outsiders.

Can a pie really fall in this world?
Hey ~
In the past dynasties, in order to seize the emperor, the royal family had always fought against each other and even fought with each other. When it was their turn, the old Zhao family, hey, it was really particularly harmonious.

Of course, he could also see clearly that the supreme power of the country had actually been moved from the imperial court to the trading houses. The competition for power in the trading houses was also quite fierce. It was so fierce that his father, the founding king of the country, was not even the emperor. After doing it, I have to go down and snatch it from my third uncle myself.

He didn't become emperor just to be dissolute and immoral!

This is something that even a young man like him can understand.

"I...I will listen to dad when the time comes. By the way, grandma, this is my grandson's birthday gift."

Zhao Defang's birthday gift was nothing new. It was just a painting he drew himself, but it was huge and pretty. It was hard to tell that he had talent in calligraphy and painting.

Zhao Guangmei also looked at the two eldest nephews with some helplessness, and sighed: "One loves explosions, and the other loves art. Art is explosion."

As he spoke, the whine of the train whistle was heard, and along with the sound of Kuchachacha Kuchachacha, a huge monster puffing out white smoke began to come from far and near.

"Mom, my birthday gift is here too."

"Hahaha, I see, it's a train. What, is it ready for traffic?"

"Yes, it is open to traffic. Just wait for today. If you take the train from Kaifeng to Luoyang, it will take at most an hour, and it is very comfortable. With the train, it will be much more convenient for you to go back to Kaifeng in the future. Don't you like it? Do you want to eat Fan Lou’s food? From now on, you can take the train to Kaifeng, and then take the train back after eating. There will be no delay at all."

"The entire railway mainly connects the two cities of Kaifeng and Luoyang, with stops in Yingchuan and other places. There are also three branches of this railway: Yingtian, Xingren, and Jinan. They are all being extended, probably around the end of the year. It can be opened to traffic.”

The entire train was painted in bright red and purple colors. Although Zhao Guangmei thought this color was quite tacky, everyone liked the ancient aesthetic.

Birthday celebrations are meant to be lively and lively. A painter was asked to draw a picture of longevity on the entire train, and countless flowers were placed on the roof.

The entire train slowly entered from outside the city, directly through the holes in the city wall, and stopped outside the palace wall. That was Luoyang's train station. Of course, only the royal family could ride in this train station. It was a train for common people. Standing over at the pier, there is a dedicated freight station.

The people present were all knowledgeable. The idea of ​​the train entering the palace directly was a bit scary, especially Zhao Kuangyin. His eyes narrowed slightly, and as the people and objects in the car got off one after another, he understood that Zhao Kuangyin The profound meaning of light and beauty.

"With this thing, our Song Dynasty will be prosperous and eternal, and there will no longer be the danger of a palace coup."

To put it bluntly, when a palace coup occurs, the people in the palace can just take the train and run away, or they can simply send troops from outside into the palace to quell the rebellion.

Therefore, if you want to launch a palace coup in the future, you must at least control the train station, but the train station itself is also for civilian and commercial purposes. To control the train station, you must control the court or even the entire city. But if any powerful official in the outer court has such ability , then what kind of palace coup is there? Just force their family to give in.

The people who got off the train were naturally envoys from the surrounding countries and military envoys from various places.In fact, the Song Dynasty really doesn’t have many neighboring countries now. Dali has been destroyed, and Zhenhai has been withdrawn. The whole of Southeast Asia has no concept of a country at all. Several small political powers are just bullshit. All the people in the northwest are the Song Dynasty. The Jiedu envoys and even the Gaochang Uighurs have now entered the court and expressed their willingness to ask for the Jiedu Yue. At least the Song Dynasty has not yet agreed. There is a proxy war between the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom, and they have to continue to fight.

If you take this jieyue, you will have to fight another war with the Liao Kingdom. That is not the strategy of the Song Dynasty.

As for Shiwei, Jurchen, Bohai Kingdom and other places, without exception, they all invited the Song Dynasty's Jie Yue. The Song Dynasty officials could not care about them, so let's talk about it, but at least in name, everyone is now the ministers of the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, the so-called state guests and envoys actually refer to the Liao Kingdom.

And all of them were distinguished guests. Brother Yelu Xiu, Yelu Xiezhen, and Xiao Siwen all came in person.

To put it bluntly, the peaceful reunification proposed by Zhao Guangmei before was not something that the Liao Kingdom could not consider. They came to negotiate the conditions in person. At the same time, it was very important to experience what the so-called train was.

At this time, they got off the train, and each of them was so frightened that their faces turned pale.

Their own family knew that the child Zhao Dezhao might have some brain problems, but they didn't know.

What are you doing? Before the train even entered the city, a mountain was blown up in front of them.

Who are you scaring.

Am I afraid that you will scare me like this?
Yes, I'm afraid~! !
The development of firearms in the Song Dynasty was really too fast and too fierce.

Nowadays, the secret recipe of gunpowder is no longer a secret. The Liao Kingdom can more or less get some finished products through smuggling and other means, and they themselves are indeed looking for saltpeter everywhere.

The mining cost is higher and the inventory is smaller. Although the gunpowder produced is definitely not enough for a real war, there is definitely still some.

But even if all the gunpowder in the entire Daliao were gathered together and fired, it would definitely not have such power.

In other words, no matter how much ordinary black gunpowder is, it is impossible to have such an effect, and the purity is simply not enough.

The gunpowder that Zhao Dezhao used was nitrate cotton. It has been upgraded and entered the chemical age. This thing is a generation difference.

The Song Dynasty has never kept the preparation method of nitric acid cotton secret, but the preparation of this thing not only requires high-purity nitrate soil, but also requires a large amount of electricity.

Where did the Liao Kingdom get its electricity? Even if a small hydropower station was built in Jizhou, it would be impossible to obtain electricity and soil.

In the entire Song Dynasty, only Zhao Dezhao's southwestern region had so much electricity that he could use it to power the earth, or even to play with feces, and modern chemistry was born through power.

The power of this nitric acid cotton explosive almost made them pee.

Mountains can be blown down, so what's the so-called Yanyun natural danger?
When Brother Yeluxiu got out of the car, he could only mumble dully: "It's okay, it's okay, we still have the advantage of cavalry."

Xiao Siwen sighed: "What an advantage, how fast is this train?"

"........."

Yelu Xiezhen said dissatisfiedly: "It's all your fault. If you hadn't taken the lead and insisted on doing business with the Song Dynasty, how could it have ended up like this? Selling off the ancestral property is simply... simply..."

"If it weren't for me, we wouldn't have this chance for peace talks. If I give you an army of 100 million, do you think you can win the Song army?"

"Hmph, if we really have 100 million soldiers and horses, I...I..."

"Let's go, wish you a happy birthday first, and then have a good chat with King Qin. He's quite easy to talk to."

"Huh, that's nice of you."

"Haha, a minister is a minister. In our Liao Kingdom, a daughter can be the queen. If she were in the Song Kingdom, she could still be the queen."

"Humph."

The three of them bickered all the way up to the high wall of the palace city.

They accidentally saw Shi Wei's envoy and glared at each other.

In the past two years, the fight between Liao and Shiwei has become more and more fierce.

"Xuan, the foreign envoys from various countries and the Jiedushi envoys from various places came to visit and congratulate them on their birthday~"

The three of them also followed the others up the steps and walked to the top.

Then all the Jiedu envoys and foreign envoys knelt down on the ground, calling themselves foreign ministers, and congratulating them on their birthday.

Then, all the members of Zhao Song looked at the three of them with the expressions of people enjoying themselves.

A privy envoy of the Liao Kingdom, a king of the North Court, and a king of the South Court.

Hey, that's really interesting.

After a while, Xiao Siwen sighed calmly, then lifted up his clothes and knelt down: "Foreign Minister Xiao Siwen, I would like to pay my respects to the Empress Dowager of the Song Dynasty. I wish the Song Dynasty a long life. I would like to offer a birthday gift to my Majesty, the Emperor of the Liao Dynasty, and to the Empress Dowager of the Song Dynasty."

Yelu Xiezhen and Yelu Xiu looked at each other.

In fact, when they met Yelvxian in Liao Kingdom, they would not worship him.

But to be honest, the reason why they came with such noble status was because they came with the intention of harmonization, otherwise how could they come in person.

The so-called peace and reunification means surrender.

You have already accepted it, so what else can you pretend? Why not be more respectful and fight for the details during the negotiation?

So Yelv Xiezhen and Brother Yelvxiu also knelt down.

The old queen mother couldn't help laughing, laughing and tearing up.

She had really met Yelv Deguang when he entered Kaifeng, and Zhao Hongyin had really fought guerrilla warfare with the Khitan cavalry at that time. How could he not know how powerful the Khitan was?

"Your Majesty, this is a birthday gift prepared by the foreign minister. I hope you like it."

"Okay, okay, okay, you are too polite. Your coming is my biggest birthday gift."

Zhao Guangmei also hurriedly stepped forward, first helped Xiao Siwen up and said: "Father-in-law, get up quickly. You three, and all the commanders, please take your seats. Next, it's time for our military parade in the Song Dynasty."

(End of this chapter)