Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 292 The final reform
The people of Shiwei went east, and the people of Korea went east again. Finally, they all joined forces to seize the territory of Japan.

The so-called reform and relief simultaneously solve the dilemma.

It's just perfect.

Of course, the expenses incurred will be a lot, but Da Song has money now and doesn't care at all. If the worst happens, he will just bite the bullet.

And in essence, this money does not need to be provided by the Song Dynasty court, but can be provided by commercial banks and private merchants.

This matter was actually of great benefit to the Song Dynasty. He could better control the peninsula through Shiwei, and then control the Japanese country through the Koreans. He could solve two major problems without sending a single soldier.

The peninsula's ginseng and rubies are very good assets, and the port is developed and convenient. Sea and river transportation are very convenient. It is also very convenient as the outlet for the entire grassland area, not to mention the Japanese country, which only has sulfur and silver mines. It's all priceless.

It is very exciting to think about a group of homeless Koreans leading the Shiwei people who were the king of cold weapons, and some hot weapons supported by the Song Dynasty, to seize the land of the Japanese country.

It's that perfect.

The hatred between the Koreans and the Japanese was quite big, and the two places were indeed not far away, and the transportation was relatively convenient. The Song Dynasty could also have two more agents for foreign colonization.

Agents are still very important, especially in the current maritime trade of the Song Dynasty. They really lack a sharp knife that can lead the Song Dynasty into battle, a rebel army at sea.

Of course, Goryeo also needed to build a large shipyard. At this point, a concentric circle of imperialism with the Song Dynasty as the core was basically completed.

The national power of the Song Dynasty can finally be officially declared to have reached its peak, and the battle to destroy the Liao Dynasty has basically come to a perfect end.

Ruling the grasslands is certainly not an easy task for a farming civilization, but with such a good start, Zhao Guangmei is confident that it will take about two generations to completely eliminate ethnic differences and completely unify.

He was not in a hurry to return to the court with his troops. He still followed the original plan and returned to Linhuang Mansion after dismissing the party members to continue training troops.

Then he put all his energy into internal affairs, urban construction, railways, steam engines, steam-coal-fired generators and other new things. Linhuang Mansion even became the first city in the Song Dynasty to use steam power generation. .

When the electric lights were turned on in Linhuang Mansion, even the Khitan people knelt on the ground and spoke incoherently with excitement.

When productivity increases, good times will come.

There are really many coal and iron mines in Linhuang Mansion, and they are all open-pit. Mining is very easy, and to be honest, even the cost of steelmaking is not very high.

After the electricity was introduced, the industry in Linhuang Mansion has also developed greatly. The disadvantage here compared to the mainland is that the transportation is not developed enough, the transportation cost is very high, and it is basically far away from the market. However, it is really suitable for the development of heavy industry. .

To put it simply, the task of Linhuang Mansion is to keep digging coal and smelting iron. The smelted iron is digested on the spot. Most of it is thrown on the ground as rails, and the other half is used to make gun barrels and cannon barrels.

Moreover, more than [-] guardsmen raise, herd, and train horses here, including building military camps and other things, which itself promotes the economic development of this place, and countless merchants come here after smelling the smell.

The positioning of the military merit base has been very clear.

In fact, after the Liao Kingdom was destroyed, the Gaochang Uighurs naturally became the possessions of the Guiyi Army. According to Zhao Guangmei's instructions, Cao Yuanzhong quickly established a puppet court here and canonized three Jiedu envoys in one go. He began to dump Song Dynasty industrial products and at the same time reclaimed a large amount of wasteland.

While Zhao Guangmei was busy in the North and building longer and longer railways, Zhao Kuangyin was not idle either. He was also borrowing a lot of money to build ships and go to sea. In less than half a year, he discovered in the Kingdom of Siam A lot of copper ore.

To be honest, his eldest brother did things much more efficiently than he did. Just because of this copper mine, he personally led the navy, as well as a large number of Shiwei people, party members, and mercenaries, and worked with Pan Mei to fight on both land and water fronts. Siam was directly destroyed.

The whole of Southeast Asia, and even South Asia, began to communicate in both directions by sea and road.

The entire Song Dynasty began to prosper and fell into a huge population shortage. Moreover, the Shiwei and Korean people were no longer suitable to be slaves. Although they were still second-class citizens in the Song Dynasty, it would be difficult to enslave people again. It was not suitable either, so I had to go further afield to catch new slaves.

In a word, the Song Dynasty is short of people.

Even though the manufacturing plant has been heavily mechanized, there is still a shortage of people.

Colonization is somewhat bloody. In fact, the productivity of the Song Dynasty is not enough so far. In addition, there is really a shortage of people. Zhao Kuangyin himself is really not a good man and a woman. If the Tiger and Wolf Master of the Song Dynasty is left, The country is far away, no one cares about military discipline anymore, and the style is indeed anthropomorphic.

It is true that everyone does not have the patience to stop and take control.

There is too much land that needs to be developed in Gaochang, the Liao Kingdom, and throughout Southeast Asia and even South Asia.

Although the quantities of cotton, rubber, grapes, sugar cane, and peanuts that were brand new to the economy were still limited in the Song Dynasty, they were planted in patches on these newly opened lands, all under military control.

Zhao Guangmei wanted to build railways and power plants, which required a lot of coal, iron, copper, and rubber. Zhao Kuangyin wanted to build big ships, which required a lot of good wood. And the construction of the city was not easy. A large number of wooden houses were demolished and built with water connections. Buildings have electricity, and a large number of people are burdened with large amounts of loans.

The borrowing rate and fiscal deficit of the entire Song Dynasty were rising like crazy, reaching new highs through expansion, so much so that Zhao Pu and others even had to take the initiative to increase the income tax for the people in the Neijun area two years later. land subsidies.

The Industrial Revolution was sweeping across the Song Dynasty in an incredible way.

In this way, five years later, the lives of the people of the Song Dynasty were undergoing earth-shaking changes, and thousands of years of public order and good customs were being overturned.

People's lives have improved. People in some big cities have all moved into residential buildings. The buildings have heating, electricity, and tap water that can be supplied in limited quantities at fixed times.

The food on the table has also become plentiful. Canned fruits and canned meats have become affordable for every household, and the consumption of non-staple food is increasing rapidly.

Ordinary city residents will eat steamed buns, tea, and sweets for breakfast. Rice and stir-fried vegetables will be eaten at noon. Even ordinary workers will drink a glass of wine. They can eat some steamed buns when they go home in the evening. Corn, potatoes and other things, and then drink a little white wine.

The types of clothes are becoming more and more abundant, and the materials are becoming more and more diverse. Especially in winter, at least people in big cities can afford at least one large thick cotton coat.

It is no exaggeration to say that the current living standards of people in big cities in the Song Dynasty have basically caught up with people in most European countries in the 18th century or even the early 19th century.Although there is still no intuitive data on the degree of urbanization, Zhao Guangmei estimates that it should be 30.00% or [-]. It is still far from universal prosperity, but compared with the late Tang and Five Dynasties before the founding of the Song Dynasty, it can really be used as hell Compare it to heaven.

And even in rural areas, the people at least cannot starve or freeze to death.

The people of the Song Dynasty are now using more and more slaves, or it can be said that the second-class and third-class citizens are becoming more and more obvious.

A large number of male slaves are concentrated in farm areas, and they have become the armed force of powerful landlords and a destabilizing factor for the country. Not to mention this, at least the court does not care much about it now, especially now that the Khitan Uighurs, Wei Gaoli and other ethnic groups have become When the agents of the Song Dynasty fought for the Song Dynasty, more and more slaves were used by Southeast Asians, and even some whites and blacks.

People are all very strange. The Koreans and Shiwei people look similar to the Han people, and the difference is very small. People also think that using slaves is immoral.

But when a large number of slaves are obviously not of the same race as you in appearance, this compassion will be much lighter.

If they no longer know Chinese, there will be a feeling that they can be treated like livestock.

And to be honest, traditional public order and good customs are all based on farming civilization. When they enter the city, they are completely messed up. Especially among the slaves sold into the city, there are really good-looking ones. Although the customs industry Still illegal on the surface, but foreign women are basically pretty cheap.

As for men, few can resist temptation.

And because many women in the city already have income, financial independence brings confidence, and then... all kinds of messy things happen.

The two genuine natives of the Song Dynasty can also give birth to one black and one white son and daughter.

Moreover, illegitimate children are common in almost every city. Many women carry their children to the government to complain that they are from the Song Dynasty, and the government is often too ignorant to deal with such matters.

It's okay to meet someone who is willing to take responsibility, but the problem is that most men really don't have such a high sense of responsibility.

All over the world, men in every country are pretty much the same when facing this kind of thing. The so-called Chinese men are more responsible. Most of them are just illusions in a society of acquaintances. They put up their pants when they can run and still refuse to admit it. In modern society, they are fucked by Chinese men. African women who are pregnant and unable to find anyone are no less harmful than white people.

To put it bluntly, the people now urgently need a new set of codes of conduct, a new set of social rules, and cultural narratives to reshape the people's moral concepts.

The Zhou rites no longer exist, but the new rites have not yet come.

In the past two years, the formulation of New Confucianism, or the new "Song Rites" has been urgently needed. This has become the consensus of the court. However, brothers Zhao Guangmei and Zhao Kuangyin have not been in the capital in the past few years. Such a big matter Without these two people making the decision, everyone would really not dare to make the decision.

Zhao Kuangyin has now disappeared, and even the court does not know where he has gone. In these years, he often went to sea, including a trip to the Japanese country, and even went directly to Europe. Now it is really I don’t know where it is, maybe I really need to set up an expedition to the Americas.

Deep down, this guy is actually an adventurous and romantic person.

Zhao Guangmei has been wandering around Linhuang Mansion, Yanjing, Jizhou, Dunhuang, Xiazhou and other places, making steel and iron, building railways, herding sheep, growing cotton and weaving, hanging out with the nomads and second-class citizens all day long. They almost confuse themselves into a grassland nation.

To be honest, if we can achieve a good integration of Confucianism and this teaching, it would not be a bad idea to promote it as a new norm. 90.00% of the content in it is the essence in this era, and the remaining [-]% of the dross will be removed. Enough.

But the problem is that Da Song is now at war with Da Shi.

Feeling the prosperity of the Song Dynasty's national power and the threat to them, the originally disintegrated Dashi had a tendency to reunite after the fall of Gaochang.

If nothing else, this should be Song Xin’s strongest enemy.

At this time, I, the Song Dynasty, do not export culture, but take the initiative to learn their culture. Isn’t this sick?
But to be honest, Zhao Guangmei didn't want to get too involved in how to revise the so-called Song Li. After all, he came from modern times, and his three views were different from those of the ancients. If he really had to design it, it might be counterproductive.

Regarding matters of culture and customs, we should leave it to the ancients and let them figure it out for themselves.

In contrast, he is still more willing to devote his limited enthusiasm to the unlimited cause of building railways.

Moreover, he has recently been encouraging the Guiyi Army, Dangxiang people and even Zhao Dezhao to join forces to fight against Tibet.

He always felt that it was unsatisfactory that such a large area was not included in the Song Dynasty since ancient times.

It's a pity that the Guiyi Army, the Uighurs, the Dangxiang people, and the shareholders of the trading company really have no interest in this and are not willing to fight. If he doesn't force it, there seems to be nothing he can do.

The Song Dynasty did not fight useless wars. This rule was set by himself.

In addition, in Zhao Guangmei's opinion, the matters that are about to determine the future fate of the Song Dynasty, as well as the upper and lower limits, have also been put on the agenda and have reached the point where they have to be done:

The commercial bank is finally going to officially carry out a complete split, oriented to

All social capital is gone.

　This book, just short of the last bit of plot, is about to end after the final reforms are completed. It has not been updated well this month because I have a lot of time to write new books.

　　The new book has been released now, and it is still on this account. It is called "The End of the World: Is the Warden Sick?" However, the number of words is still very small. If you are interested, you can help me support it. If you are not interested, forget it. This span is also bigger.

　　Introduction: I have awakened the strongest warden system. As long as I reform the prisoners and let them change their ways, I can get a lot of rewards.

　　As a result, we encountered the end of the world, and all the prisoners in the prison wanted to escape. Some turned into zombies, and some awakened superpowers.

　　But if you jailbreak, won’t I wake up the system in vain?No, just leave me in prison to continue my reform, change my mind, and start a new life after I get out.

　　Prisoner: "This warden is definitely sick. It's the end of the world. He forces us to undergo ideological reform and learn criminal law all day long."

　　
　
(End of this chapter)