indianbanksassociation Chapter 290
Chapter 290
Chapter 290
The news of King Zhenbei's return spread to the palace, which really made Zhang Xiu and Yongjia very happy, and the three-year-old son Xiao Qin was also happy to have fun in the yard.
Although the child has already forgotten what Xiao Qi looks like, the two mothers often talk about this father to him every day, and there is no chance to forget him.
Ten days later, the big ship that Zhenbei King Xiao Qi was on arrived at Shanghai Port under the escort of a dozen Song warships.
The current emperor, Zhao Shen, as an emperor, naturally wouldn't go to the port to greet him in person, but as Xiao Qi's father-in-law, Zhao Shen still sent a minister representing himself to welcome the return of this hero of the Song Dynasty who opened up the territory of the Song Dynasty overseas. .
Zhang Xiuye and Yongjia took their son Xiao Qin to Shanghai Port to welcome their man back to Song Dynasty.
In the past few days when Xiao Qi returned to Song Dynasty, the whole Song Dynasty was as happy as New Year's Eve.
The common people feel that these days when their patron saint returns to the Song Dynasty are the best auspicious days for the zodiac, the days when they are blessed by the gods.
From the day Xiao Qi returned to the Song Dynasty, the suona and drum music never stopped throughout the Song Dynasty.
The people of the Song Dynasty rushed to marry the king of Zhenbei to marry his wife and daughters in the Song Dynasty, and they didn't want to waste the good days of the patron saint in the Song Dynasty.
For this situation, Xiao Qi was also very surprised.
I thought to myself: If I have nothing to do and walk around the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, will the population of the entire Great Song Dynasty increase dramatically?
If that's the case, I will take time to go around the whole Song Dynasty every year.
In that way, within a few years, the problem of lack of manpower in overseas occupations that gave me a headache can be gradually solved!
This idea just flashed in Xiao Qi's mind, and he didn't think about it anymore, because the various policies of the Song Dynasty to encourage people to have children have made the people of the Song Dynasty no longer regard raising children as a burden.
Many local officials even wrote a letter to Emperor Zhao Shen because they distributed too much money and food to newborns every year, hoping that the emperor would abolish the policy of rewarding each newborn with money.
If this goes on for a long time, sooner or later, the tax revenue of the Song Dynasty will become a reward every year, and all the rewards will be awarded to the people. At that time, the imperial treasury will have no money.
When Emperor Zhao Shen saw this memorial jointly sent by ministers, he just thought about it and rejected it.
He said to these ministers:
“This national policy was promoted by King Zhenbei, and King Zhenbei has now conquered a large territory overseas.
These days, the military newspapers often report that there is an urgent need for a large number of people from the Great Song Dynasty to move there, and it will completely become the territory of my Great Song Dynasty!
As for the statement that the treasury is empty, it is even more nonsense!
My Song Dynasty now gets gold and silver from overseas every year, which is more than ten times more than the tax of the previous Song Dynasty?
The national treasury of the Song Dynasty is now full, and the common people have sufficient food and money, so why worry about it?
There is no need to present such memorials in the future. Encouraging the people of the Song Dynasty to have children is the first national policy of the Song Dynasty that cannot be changed!
Who are you waiting for who has such an idea, go directly to King Zhenbei and talk about it, I will not pay any more attention to such nonsense! "
The ministers below fell silent immediately, they all knew what Zhao Shen said.
The reason why I want to stop this money-consuming thing is not that I think this policy is bad, but because this policy has been directly informed to all the people since it was promulgated.
Everyone knows that every time a child is born, there will be a reward of money.
This made the officials below no chance to pluck their hair, and now that the people of the Song Dynasty are willing to have children, the amount of money distributed by the government to the people every year is an astronomical figure.
Those officials at all levels who grew up with promotion and fortune engraved on their foreheads from a young age saw a huge amount of money flowing out of their hands, but they couldn't even lose a hair. Why don't they let them scratch their hearts and livers in pain!
It's not that there are no bold officials withholding the money, but because this policy was promoted by King Zhenbei.
Because the people of the Great Song Dynasty had the support of King Zhenbei, they changed their previous obedience to the government, not to mention anyone who withheld hundreds of copper coins, and would sue you for missing a copper coin!
If you dare to protect each other, the people will have no place to reason.
Well, I won't talk to you officials anymore, I will go to Changshengying!
The idea that those guys in Changshengying have been instilled by Xiao Qi all the time is: Our Changshengying is a dog raised by the people, and it is for the people to look after their homes.
A good dog will not bite its owner, whoever bullies his owner, don't think about it, he will kill him!
It happened several times that Chang Shengying stood up for the people, caught those officials who together withheld the people's rewards, and sent the confessions together with these offending officials to the Ministry of Punishment.
No official dared to reach out for this reward again.
Just kidding, the means of interrogating prisoners of war in the Changsheng Camp, how could they, the bureaucrats with delicate skin and tender meat, be able to bear it!
So these guys started to use their brains, if we don't get any benefits, then this road will be cut off, and no one will get this benefit.
This kind of thing has happened endlessly in China for thousands of years, and later generations call this kind of thing pink eye disease.
But fortunately, today's emperor wants his people to live a good life, and the treasury is full and he doesn't know how to spend the money, so he doesn't respond to the clamor of these greedy things.
Xiao Qi got this news from Prime Minister Zuo when he went to visit Yu Yunwen.
Xiao Qi just shook his head and sighed at this, there is no way, officials have always had this kind of virtue since ancient times.
Killing is endless, if the management of this is too strict, it can prevent such things to a certain extent, but it will be called tyranny.
Anyway, the common people were in a hurry, and they would take the initiative to ask Chang Shengying to stand up for them. Finally, those officials did not dare to do too much, so he did not pursue this matter.
In the days that followed, Xiao Qi went to the palace every now and then to chat with his father-in-law and his cheap father.
It is to go to the Dasong Foundry Bureau every day to watch the production of mortar shells and gun mounts and barrels.
Mortars were quickly built, because they belonged to smoothbore guns and did not require rifling, as long as the steel was qualified.
The production of mortar shells is more complicated. For the safety of transportation, Xiao Qi specially ordered the craftsmen to separate the shells from the fuzes.
Immediately before firing, the trigger fuze is loaded onto the projectile and fired.
In this way, there are very high requirements on the manufacturing process of the shell. At least the place where the shell is connected to the fuze must be made into a standard part, so that any fuze can be installed on any mortar shell.
It was only this one that made the craftsmen of the Song Dynasty Foundry Bureau study for more than three months before transforming the industrial machine tool into a thread that can be used for both the shell interface and the fuze.
And this size is strictly regulated. As long as the deviation of the produced shells and fuze products exceeds a certain value, they are waste products and must be destroyed and rebuilt.
With the resolution of this problem, there will be no obstacles to the production of mortars and mortar shells, and the most difficult shell structure does not need to be concerned at all because of the mature drawings.
Just when Xiao Qi got the first batch of one hundred qualified mortar shells and was about to go to the proving ground for experiments, he received a bad news.
He Shi Lie Zhining, the left commander of the Jin Kingdom, King of Jinyuan County, died of illness at his home in Yanjing ten days ago.
Although he knew that the left commander of the Jin Kingdom would die soon, Xiao Qi was still sad when he got the news. Xiao Qi still respected his strongest opponent in the early days.
In order to show respect for his old rival, Xiao Qi sent the first battalion of the Changsheng Battalion, without any firearms, to Yanjing, wearing armor and swords, to express condolences to Commander Zuo on his behalf.
A soldier's respect for his opponent will not be associated with money, that is disrespect for a soldier. Xiao Qi personally wrote an elegiac couplet for Heshi Lie Zhining and ordered him to take it with him.
The death of Heshi Lie Zhining just made Xiao Qi feel lost for a few days. After feeling sorry for losing a rival who could drink and chat for a while, Xiao Qi once again immersed himself in the process of leading the craftsmen to experiment with mortars.
But what Xiao Qi didn't expect was that because of Zuo Shuai He Shi Lie Zhining's death, Jin Guo fell into a dispute in the court of Jin Guo, and the reason was Xiao Qi.
The reason is very simple. The vast majority of the officials of the Kingdom of Jin believe that the Great Song Dynasty is now extremely powerful, and that they did not attack the Great Jin before was entirely because Zuo Shuai Heshi Lie Zhining and the Northern King of the Great Song Dynasty had friendship again.
Judging from the fact that Xiao Qi, the Northern King of the Great Song Dynasty, specially sent the most elite Daodao Battalion of the First Battalion of the Great Song Dynasty to carry his elegiac couplet to mourn Zuo Shuai on his behalf, we know that the relationship between the two is very good.
As the descendants of wild banner people in the bitter cold land, these golden people believe in the law of the jungle.
They think that if Song Dynasty is strong, they will invade and annex Dajin as a matter of course.
The Song Dynasty did not do that before. It was because the King of Zhenbei of the Song Dynasty had a good relationship with Zuo Shuaihe Shi Liezhining, so the Song Dynasty did not attack the Jin Dynasty.
But now that the bond between Dajin and the King of Zhenbei of the Song Dynasty is gone, Xiao Qi will definitely attack Dajin without hesitation in the future, and even annex Dajin.
Although there are some ministers of the Kingdom of Jin who think that Xiao Qi will not attack Da Jin.
However, those ministers who thought that Xiao Qi would attack Dajin took Xiao Qi to take down the peninsula and the island countries in these years, and almost took down all the places where Dasong could see overseas.
They used such an example to tell Emperor Wan Yanyong of the Kingdom of Jin that Xiao Qi was definitely not a kind person, he was definitely a war madman, although Da Jin and Da Song had maintained peace all these years.
But that's because Zuo Shuai He Shi Lie Zhining has a good relationship with Xiao Qi, and whenever there is any change in the Southern Song Army, Dajin will send Zuo Shuai to check.
Perhaps Xiao Qi, King of Zhenbei in the Great Song Dynasty, was afraid of Zuo Shuai Heshi Lie Zhining, or this Xiao Qi really valued the friendship with Zuo Shuai Heshi Lie Zhining, which always saved Dajin from danger.
Now that Commander Zuo is gone, we must guard against Song's attack on us. We can't defend against an army like Song's Changsheng Camp with our own strength. We must unite with other countries and form an alliance to resist the possible invasion of Song.
The Great Jin Emperor Wan Yanyong, who had been disturbed by the powerful Changsheng camp of the Song Dynasty, also felt that these ministers were right. The Song Dynasty in the south was already so powerful that it was impossible for him to stay so honest and not go Annex other countries.
In the end, Wan Yanyong gritted his teeth and decided to secretly contact the powerful tribes of Mongolia and Xixia, and Tubo and Dali, which bordered the Song Dynasty, also secretly contacted.
It is impossible for these countries that also border the Great Song Dynasty not to be as worried as myself that the Song people will suddenly attack their country one day.
It is best to form a secret alliance with these countries. As long as Da Song attacks any country, other countries will besiege Da Song together, forcing them to give up the idea of annexing any country.
If these countries can truly be of one mind, then it is not impossible to gather the power of several countries to suddenly attack and wipe out Song Dynasty at once.
With such an idea in mind, Wan Yanyong secretly dispatched multiple special envoys, carrying gifts prepared by the Kingdom of Jin, to contact the leaders of these countries and tribes, hoping to form an alliance.
Jin Guo's plan was very successful, and he soon got Xixia's reply.
The lord of the Western Xia Dynasty had long been frightened by the Changsheng camp of the Song Dynasty. Now that he knew that Dajin was going to form an alliance with him to resist the Song Dynasty, he agreed in a hurry.
Next came Dali, and Dali was also frightened by the invincible combat power of the Great Song Changsheng Battalion.
These years they have been arguing whether it should be directly merged into the Song Dynasty. Anyway, Dali has always been affiliated to the Han family. Don't worry, they will be like Annan in the future, and all the nobles will be piled up in Beijing!
Now that the powerful Jin country in the north of the Song Dynasty is suddenly acquired, they want to form an alliance with these small neighboring countries to resist the increasingly powerful Song Dynasty.
This made Dali's lord and officials ecstatic. They always felt that Dajin was a powerful country that could compete with Song Dynasty, and it must be a good thing to form an alliance with such a powerful country.
So the lord of Dali immediately agreed, and quietly sent his own mission to the Kingdom of Jin to sign the covenant with gifts.
On the contrary, the two major tribes of Tubo and several major tribes of Mongolia are not very concerned about the alliance.
The two major tribes in Tubo feel that the climate here is bitter and cold, and the terrain is extremely high. Those Han people cannot adapt to the climate here. Even if the Han people are strong today, at most they will come to plunder and retreat soon.
On my own side, I only need to migrate to a distant place when the Han people call, and come back after a while, and the place here is still my own.
At this time, the Mongolian tribes are focusing on annexing each other. At this time, Mongolia has established a trade corridor with Xiliao because of the Song Dynasty, and Xiliao has no longer paid attention to trade with Mongolia.
Coupled with the previous feud with Dajin and Xixia, and being trapped in the bitter cold in the north for a long time, it made life difficult for all ethnic groups in Mongolia.
These Mongolian tribes even attacked each other for a little inconspicuous supplies. According to historical records, this period was the most chaotic period in Mongolia, and it was called "20 years without sweat" in history.
At this time, there was no big clan in Mongolia that could rule the entire Mongolian tribe, and no one was interested in the so-called big tribe that received the Wanyanyong covenant.
Everyone is attacking each other, maybe my tribe will be raided and wiped out tomorrow, how can I have the heart to talk about this with you!
However, when the Mongolian Qiyan tribe received this secret alliance letter, a teenager in the tribe suggested to the elders that they must sign this agreement with Jin Guo.
(End of this chapter)