Song Beiyun

Along these two horizontal and vertical railway lines, it reaches Lianyungang in the east, Datong in the north, Yumen Pass in the west, and Zhangzhou in the south.After the completion, it only takes two or three days to travel from Chang'an to Yumen Pass, and from Jinling to Zhangzhou, which normally takes two months, can now be reached in three to four days.

If you smell business opportunities here, you really deserve to get rich. Bao Engineering is exaggerating. Just cooking for the engineering team can make a lot of money in a year.

There is also a more obscure content here, that is, the land of Bashu is still a game place among those few Southwest kings, but the land of Bashu will also be developed on a certain scale in the next ten years.

But here Song Beiyun didn't say it clearly, but just vaguely sent out a signal, one is to give the local emperors a shot, and the other is to hope that they will not have a confrontational mood, otherwise if they hinder the implementation of the overall plan, they will not be The sinners of the pure Chinese nation are so simple.

Of course, Song Beiyun also had greed in Tubo, but he didn't mention it much here, because under the current conditions, the plateau battle can't afford to lose, and if he talks too much, it will cause international disputes, but it can be seen from his tone It can be heard that maybe in the not-too-distant future, he will have to destroy the Tubo kingdom since ancient times.

This incident actually caused the Tubo envoys to panic, but before they could go back to report the situation, they were stopped by the people from the Imperial City Division and invited to drink tea.

They went out nervously, coming out like a spring breeze, no one said anything and no one did anything, after all, who can refuse a prosperous place like Song Dynasty?

It's just that the rattling things around their waists are really jarring.

"I think Song Beiyun is more like an emperor." Zhao Xing turned his head and asked, "What do you think?"

Next to him was Yan Shu with his fan outstretched. When Yan Shu heard this, he glanced at Zhao Xing but said nothing, because it was not surprising for Zhao Xing to see something that everyone in the world could see, but Yan Shu didn't know that Zhao Xing What does Xing suddenly mean by such a sentence, because the last thing he wants is to see these two brothers fighting against each other.

"Why don't I secretly issue an edict to pass on the throne to him?"

Yan Shu's expression suddenly turned on the old man's phone, he put his hips on his hips and pursed his lips: "Master, let me go and make it easier."

"When it's exciting, you go?"

Chapter 859: Rain on May 1, Ten Years

That's right, as Zhao Xing said, the really exciting part begins now, because the period between the first ten years of summary and the next ten years of planning is what needs to be done immediately.

Here Song Beiyun explicitly or covertly assumed a domineering attitude that would not allow any refutation, or call it the three bottom lines.

First of all, the starting point of everything must be development. From now on, any individual, group or force that stands in the way of the Chinese nation will become the enemy of the entire Chinese nation.

This attitude is very clear. A careful analysis of the content can reveal a message, that is, the strategic deployment of the entire Song Dynasty and even the entire China will change from passive defense to active defense.

If you encounter foreign invasion or harassment, you will no longer focus on negotiation, but directly choose to enter the counterattack state.

This is a strategy model that is different from all the previous strategies. For most people, it is the same, but in fact this will be the first step to expand your influence.In other words, this will be the dominant direction of national defense and international strategy in the next stage.

Secondly, Song Beiyun talked about the unification for the first time, not only the unification of Song and Liao, but the unification of the entire Chinese cultural circle.

According to common sense, such sensitive content will be dissatisfied or even protested by envoys from other countries, but no one dared to speak out at the scene, because judging from the current situation, if it is not for the people's livelihood and the economy, except for the Liao Kingdom, which can compete with the Song Dynasty Except for the high level, any other regions and countries are nothing more than playthings worth mentioning in front of the Song Dynasty.

In fact, there is no difference in the core of Song and Liao in this aspect, so it is a community of interests, but there is no chance to find a common solution now, so they gave up resolving conflicts at this point in time tacitly, and put all the current disputes together. It will be handed over to future generations, but now Song and Liao have almost given up confrontation and chose to cooperate entirely.

Although this can be regarded as two imperial courts in one country, it is a bit embarrassing to say, but fortunately there is no risk of war between Song and Liao like the northern and southern grasslands, and even the boundaries between the two countries have become more and more blurred in recent years. After the Three Kingdoms Covenant, the identity of Tongwen and Tongzhong became more and more blurred. Even the Academy of Sciences of the Song Dynasty allowed people from the Liao Kingdom to enter it, and all major colleges would default to giving equal treatment to Liao students.

In comparison, other countries do not have such treatment. Even grasslands can only enjoy relatively equal treatment in Chang'an, and there will still be some discrimination in other places.

However, there are relatively few such problems between Song and Liao. After all, Song and Liao have a common name-Tang.

However, because of the Liao Emperor’s policy of “Song has what Liao needs”, Liao’s basic textbooks are now the same as Song’s. Even now, in order to catch up with Song’s economy, Liao’s taxes, laws, etc. They all began to converge with the Song Dynasty, and after Han Qi's clan reform, the Liao Kingdom is now absolutely no less harsh on the clan than the Song Dynasty on the aristocratic family.

If Fo Baonu is aware of it or not, it is actually aware of this problem. Even if she is not aware of it, Han Qi is also aware of it. This is Song Beiyun's integration plan, but the problem is that if he does not follow his layout, Maybe the Liao Kingdom will collapse before the day of integration.

And precisely because of Song Beiyun, a new term "soft aggression" has also become a special subject in the Academy of Sciences, with hundreds of people studying it day and night.

Finally, the most exciting content finally came. Song Beiyun began to promote the New World. He encouraged people to go to the New World to explore for gold, saying that place was an unprecedented new opportunity, and said that after the exploration fleet came back to confirm the location, ordinary people You can participate in it after selection.

The new continent is a new world, full of unknowns and risks. Some people are nostalgic for their hometown, and others yearn for the distance. Many people are hearing the name of the new continent for the first time, and they also believe in Song Beiyun's words, so this paragraph They listened very carefully.

But to say who yearns for the New World the most, it's actually not those who are eager to get rich, but the Long Live Lord standing below. Zhao Xing's thoughts have now drifted to the mysterious and unknown New World full of surprises with Song Beiyun. Sometimes I fantasize about leading people to fight lions and tigers in the vast jungle, and sometimes I fantasize about wrestling with wind and waves in the boundless sea.

Ever since he proclaimed himself the Generalissimo of Pingbo in the East China Sea, he has never given his mind to government affairs. Originally, Song Beiyun planned to ask Zhao Xing to help watch the second giant ship in Lianyungang, but after thinking about it, he felt that It is very likely that he went directly to Japan with the fleet, so he simply brought him back together.

But the person who brought back Zhao Xing failed to bring back his soul. Originally, he was able to sit in Jinling because he had never seen the magnificence outside. Now that he has experienced it, sitting in this place again, he feels lifeless.

What prosperity or prosperity has nothing to do with him, he only thinks about the boundless sea, the boundless expanse and the courage to move forward under the blue sky.

What a wonderful thing it would be if the new flagship was called Zhao Xing, and then lead a huge fleet of nine Yuanzi ships to explore, trade or wander around the sea.

"In the end, within the next three years, the Maritime Academy will officially start enrolling students. All those who want to enter the school can sign up, and those who want to follow the immigrant fleet to open up new worlds will also open up enrollment in the next year."

As soon as this news came out, the crowd was a sensation, because in their conception, that world was full of countless opportunities, and even houses were built of gold.

However, someone here also asked, what would happen if there were local natives, Song Beiyun smiled and did not give a clear answer to this.

Many things are like this, maybe they can be done, but they must not be said.Da Song would not brutally massacre the local aborigines like the colonists in another time and space, but some things are still hard to say.

Because this kind of thing sounds good, it is to let the local people trade their local products for civilization, but it is ugly to say that it is squeezed through industrial added value.

Just like in Ezo, the most expensive knife is sold for a catty of gold. This is still a situation where the fleet is not greedy.

It is conceivable that if the trade route of this line is really opened, even if there is no need to slaughter, the local aborigines will soon be exhausted by the Chinese with absolute technological crushing ability.

Afterwards, peaceful trading will become a kind of plunder for them. After all, although the egg civilization has an extremely advanced astronomy and calendar, it actually invented the wheel.

After the trade plundering has progressed to a certain extent, it will actually evolve into a war of living space. This is a helpless but unavoidable thing, because no matter how powerful the Song Dynasty is, it still does not have the productivity that can fully benefit the world.

So under such an environmental background, conflicts will inevitably arise, and if there is no accident, it will be the other party who will attack Da Song first.

And if Song Dynasty backed down, it would permanently lose the right to open up the New World, and if Song Dynasty didn't back down, war would break out.

Song Beiyun has never been the Holy Mother, even if she is described as cruel and merciless, she is more gentle.

Most of the time, he does put discipline and pacifism into practice, but when it comes to national interests, he has absolutely nothing to say. The productivity at this stage is here. If you want to make great strides forward If you leave, you must suck blood from other civilizations.

This is an unavoidable problem at this stage, so how should I put it... The crime lies with the present generation, and the merit lies with the descendants. After all, he does not have that lofty ideological realm.

And these things, in fact, there is no way to tell anyone, he can't encourage anyone to plunder and invade, because even if he says something related, it will be difficult to gain a firm foothold in the future "since ancient times".

As for the people who ask this kind of question, it is not bad to say that it is bad. Ordinary people, few will think in that direction. Most of them are thinking about how to manage the current one-acre three-point land. As for things on this level, it's normal for them to be unexpected.

In the future, China as a whole will inevitably face the siege and interception of the whole world, because if there is no accident, the size of China will be unimaginably large within a hundred years, and the resources it needs will inevitably become a deep-rooted world with the development of industry and technology. Bottomless pit.

In such an environment, no matter how you think about it, you should give priority to satisfying your own development. It is somewhat inappropriate to get rich first and then get rich later.

Song Beiyun's speech lasted about three hours, and the amount of information revealed was extremely huge. Those who could understand were excited, and even those who could not understand were full of joy.

Of course, there are also some discordant voices here. For example, some people think that Song Beiyun's ideas are too radical, which will hinder the great Song's reputation of generosity.

But that's not the point. Someone can dislike the sun, and it's normal to have objections. Just let it fart, who cares.

Some people started to frame Song Beiyun, that kind of sneaky propaganda. The content of the propaganda was "Song Beiyun intends to replace the emperor." The reason was that today's remarks should not be made by a third-rank official.

This kind of rumor spread quickly, obviously there was a pusher behind it, but it didn't seem to cause any waves, because if anyone who knew knew it, if it wasn't for Song Beiyun pressing Jinshang's dog's head, that guy would have abdicated the throne a long time ago Give it to the guy on stage.

As for coercing the emperor to make the princes, it is even more nonsense, because there are no princes now, and although Zhao Xing has devolved the power a long time ago, he is basically a hand-off shopkeeper now, but he still holds the military power. To some extent, Xiongbing is just a matter of Zhao Xing's words.

Regarding this, the people in high positions all smiled, but as for the people below, everyone chatted and laughed for a while. After all, for them, the emperor's surname is Zhao or Song, so what does it matter to them?

Chapter 860: Rain on May 1, Ten Years

"This thing is a train?"

The crowd dispersed, but in the large factory building less than five miles away from the Hongwen Museum, all civil and military officials stood there looking up at the steaming locomotive in front of them.

Although this thing didn't show up for a long time just now, it is still the most shocking. Anyone with a little knowledge can know what this thing represents. It is really synonymous with the new era in Song Beiyun's mouth.

Ding Xiang didn't know either, he wasn't the kind of old-school official who put on airs and couldn't get down. When he saw something he didn't understand, he could catch someone and ask him about it.

Just like now, he first asked "Is this thing called a train?" After getting an affirmative answer, the following questions were connected into pieces, such as "How does this big iron lump move?" "How does it work?" Is it okay to draw a horse?" "Why are there two steel rods under the head?"

The question was very simple and simple, but he was not embarrassed. Anyway, he just didn't understand, so he had to ask if he didn't understand.

And his status is high. The only surviving big brother in the Song Dynasty who is both a prime minister and one of the three princes. In fact, it's worse.

So his series of questions made Yan Shu overwhelmed, and in the end he brought Mr. Zhang from the Ministry of Industry to relieve his embarrassment of not knowing science.

"Marco can't move this thing."

As the elders of the three dynasties and the same classmates, Lao Zhang and Ding Xiang are much more comfortable talking. He cried a lot just now, and now his eyes are still swollen, but I heard that Lao Ding finally met someone who didn’t understand anything. It's time to find the place, and he happily leaned forward to introduce him.

"The locomotive alone weighs [-] tons. How can a horse pull it?" Lao Zhang patted the locomotive and said excitedly, "If it wasn't for the rails, it would have sunk into the ground when it hit the ground."

"How much can that pull?"

Ding Xiang looked back and forth curiously: "I just saw it looks like a long snake."

"It." Lao Zhang sighed, hugged the railing in front of the locomotive like a young and beautiful eighth aunt, and said in a greasy tone: "In our country, the pulling force is calculated by horsepower. One horsepower is about It is calculated to lift a 150-jin object by one meter in one second. The front of the car must have 30 horsepower. Even if you mention it suddenly, it can lift [-] jin. The key is not how much it pulls, but how much it pulls It can run forty to fifty miles in an hour, and this is still a test machine, and it will be even more powerful after subsequent improvements. Our design concept is to make it reach [-] horsepower in subsequent models, and it can run to [-] miles in an hour. One hundred miles, now the main thing is that the boiler is not working, and we are stepping up upgrading."

Old Ding hissed and pushed the locomotive hard, but it felt like he was pushing against a wall, and the locomotive didn't budge.

30 catties, that’s how much cargo it can pull. It’s already amazing to know that a horse can carry [-] catties of goods and travel thirty miles a day. A caravan can transport [-] catties of grain, that’s already There is a big caravan, and the distance of dozens of miles a day is not slow.

But now it seems that as long as there is enough coal, this car can run continuously. It can run one or two thousand miles in twelve hours. Even if it is four to five thousand miles from east to west, it only takes two or three days. will be able to arrive.

"Didn't Song Beiyun just fool people?" Ding Xiang looked at Lao Zhang in surprise: "Old guy, tell me the truth, don't fool me with me."

"What are you fooling with?"

"The moat becomes smoother, and three thousand miles arrive at night."

"It's difficult now, but it doesn't look like it's impossible. We have something called an internal combustion engine. It's still being developed. It's more efficient than this thing, with greater strength and faster speed. In the future... I really can't tell. Well, from Beijing to Nanjing, if you calculate more than 5000 miles, it will take about a day to run straight down."

Hard to imagine.

This is definitely an unimaginable speed for Lao Ding, but Lao Zhang is a real person, he will not fool around like Song Beiyun, he said he can, he really can.

Now it seems that in the future, will it be possible to go to Chang'an by myself from Jiangsu and Zhejiang one day?

"Song Beiyun is young after all. He told me that it won't be many years. From Jinling to Chang'an, it takes about two or three hours to arrive. Hahahahaha..." Lao Zhang waved his hand with a smile Said: "But it is really whimsical."

Ding Xiang didn't speak, but looked up at the iron lump in front of him with his hands behind his back. He didn't believe that he would arrive in Chang'an in three hours. If he could do that, wouldn't it be a god descending to earth?

At this time, Zhao Xing came up, nodded to Lao Ding and Lao Zhang, and said, "There is a chance to get in the car and go to Chang'an."

Now it’s not that you can’t go to Chang’an by car, the main reason is that the laying of the railway track is definitely a big trouble. There are explosives to open mountains, but in some places, you still have to climb mountains and cross rivers.

Therefore, it is impossible to follow a theoretical straight line, but even so, the efficiency of trains is much higher than that of caravans, but no one knows when they can get on the train.

So when Zhao Xing mentioned this, Lao Zhang was the first to be silent. How old will he be Ding Xiang? Now he is an old man in his sixties. He wonders if he will see the day when the train will open to traffic.

If you really can't see it, it's really a big pity.

But Zhao Xing didn't care about that much, anyway, he would definitely be able to see it, because Song Beiyun said that the longest time would not be more than 20 years, and Zhao Xing would only be in his fifties after 20 years. It has become one of the few spiritual pillars for Zhao Xing besides swimming in the sea by boat.

"Where's Song Beiyun?" Zhao Xing suddenly turned around and asked, "Why didn't you see that fellow?"

"I was talking to the grassland envoy outside." Yan Shu whispered, "Both departments of the northern and southern grasslands came to him at the same time."

"Oh? Why are you looking for him? Why don't you look for Prime Minister Ding in Jinling City?"

Zhao Xing's words made Ding Xiang roll his eyes: "Officials, I should leave this foreign matter to Mr. Song. He is proficient in this way, and he is not comparable to me."

"Ding Xiang is too modest." Yan Shu said with a smile: "It's just that it's better to let that person deal with it."

The reason why Yan Shu would say that was mainly because the matter of looking for Song Beiyun in the northern and southern grasslands was outrageous.

Bei Prairie hopes that Song Beiyun can fulfill the marriage contract as soon as possible, whether it is for him to marry the Prairie Princess or his son to marry the Prairie Princess, as soon as possible anyway.It is best to get some gifts of food, weapons and medicine after getting married.

As for the South Grassland, the Khan of the South Prairie hopes that his father Khan can go to the grassland to guide him in person. There is also a letter written by Song Ping. Khan went to the grassland to visit his godson.

Of course, it depends on how much the son has to bring some small gifts. The sons of others don't ask for much, they just want some food, weapons and medicine.

"This is not the place to talk."

Seeing that the two envoys in front of him were about to fight, Song Beiyun hurriedly stopped him and said, "Let's go to a quieter place... It's better than arguing on the main road anyway."

"Everything is according to the king's orders." The two messengers replied almost in unison.

Chapter 861: Rain on January 1, Ten Years

After the speech, there will be an industrial exhibition in the huge factory building behind the Hongwen Museum, and all walks of life are invited to come and watch the exhibition.

Song Beiyun invited the most beautiful little girl to be the booth to explain, and there were serious top students from the Academy of Sciences to introduce the industrial indicators of various products to celebrities from all walks of life.

There are not only things that exist on the market now, but many contents are available for the first time, such as a fast-loading cavalry gun that can be used on horseback, a sewing machine that can drive a crochet needle to sew by stepping on it, and so on.

In addition, there are cannons and firearms of various calibers, ranging from standard equipment to custom-made precision work.

However, it is not without restrictions, that is, the purchase and sale of guns in private names is not allowed, and at least a state-level unit is required to start.So at the weapons booth, there were relatively few people from Song and Liao, and most of them were envoys from the Western Regions and Persia, asking around.

Compared with guns and other things, ordinary people prefer small objects that seem useless but can actually double or even tenfold work efficiency.

The sewing machine became the biggest winner of the season. Many businesses with small workshops and small factories took a fancy to this gadget at a glance. With just a few clicks, the sewing is done. The time saved on one piece of clothing is enough to sew seven or eight more pieces of clothing. The efficiency is not so high.

There is also a big breakthrough in the field of agricultural tools. The matching agricultural tools such as threshing machines are the most beautiful cubs on the scene. This new set of agricultural tools can save too much time for harvesting.

More importantly, the price of these things is still cheap. In the entire industrial exhibition, agricultural tools are cheap, so cheap that it is outrageous. The price of a hand-operated thresher is only around [-] renminbi. The addition of agricultural tools, grinding, etc. is nothing more than a little money.

This price was the same as the price they bought a shovel on the grassland in the past, so one can imagine how cheap it is.