Dad, this seems to be the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 519 The Double-Edged Sword Unsheathed

Gaochang Uyghur is a country, well, if it can be regarded as a country, its ruling power is actually loose and terrible. It is said that they are a loose alliance of a group of military tribes.

That's flattering them all.

In the past, this place should be said to be the hometown of the old Tang Dynasty. When the Tang Empire was strong, this place lived under the high pressure of the Tang Dynasty. Although to be honest, there was a certain amount of exploitation, but the life was relatively peaceful because of it.

Later, the Tang Empire declined, and this group of people established such a country, but even without mentioning his almost completely independent oases and tribes, in terms of ethnicity alone, in addition to the Uyghurs, it also includes Southern Turks and Northern Turks. , Dazhong Iron, Xiaozhong Iron, Yangmo, Ge Luolu, Kejiasi, Moman and other nationalities.

Therefore, if Zhao Tingmei wants to take the Silk Road, he must either fight all the way or negotiate all the way. It is not just about getting a few nobles on the Tianshan Mountains to make the trip possible.

By the way, in Sun Yue's poor memory of Central Asian history, the possibility of Zhao Tingmei talking about the past is infinitely close to zero.

Because there is still a religious issue involved here, the entire Gaochang Uighurs, the east side is Buddhist, while the west side is seriously affected by the eastward movement of I-S-Lan.

In other words, the country itself is in opposition to the east and west, and whatever the east agrees with, the west must oppose.

By the way, the country is also divided between North and South.

Anyway, the development plans of the Song Dynasty that the two top talents of the Song Dynasty went to implement respectively ended in failure. Sun Yue also made a special hot pot meal to comfort Zhao Tingmei, and drank a dull wine with him by the way.

In the final analysis, the national power of Song Dynasty is still weak. The Academy of Sciences has been established for so many years, but it still can't make him a musket, so that he can't play such cool games as queuing up and shooting.

It’s not completely unmade, it’s just too primitive, it skipped the matchlock and went directly to the flintlock, but the bombing rate is extremely high, and it’s more ruthless to its own people than to the enemy, and it’s impossible to solve it in three to five years The most important thing about this problem is that the cost is still expensive, and it is impossible to popularize the three armed forces.The situation with artillery is similar to that of muskets.

In general, artillery is not as good as returning artillery or thunderbolt chariots, and muskets are not as good as divine fire flying crows or bamboo fire bombs. Even if it has a one or two point benefit to the army's combat effectiveness, it is not decisive.

While eating hot pot, Zhao Tingmei even tried to persuade him: "It's okay, brother Yue, are you going to do a career? It's not going to be smooth sailing. If you don't encounter some hardships, how can you show off the abilities of us brothers?"

Sun Yue said: "It's not that I can't do anything, I just don't want to use it yet."

"........."

In the next few months, Sun Yue and Zhao Tingmei developed independently.

Zhao Tingmei's development has hit a wall everywhere, but she is still undeterred. She walks on two legs and even coerces a lot of people from the House of Representatives. She wants them to support the Western Expedition and reproduce the glory of the Han and Tang Dynasties. It doesn't matter anymore, I have to listen to Da Song anyway.

The other leg is to securely join forces with Tubo, Dangxiang, and Guiyi Army, use Gaochang as the end point of trade, and open up a semi-Silk Road. Anyway, the Uighurs are born to do business, so they can communicate with the Western Regions Whether there is or not, it's just that the profit is a little lower. After dividing the Dangxiang and Tubo, there is not much left in the Song Dynasty.

Sun Yue even heard from gossip that Zhao Tingmei planned to carry out a coup in Guazhou. Not only did he want Guazhou in name, but he also planned to abolish the entire Cao family and incorporate it into the rebel army and register as a household of Qimin.

If the Cao family dares to resist, nine out of ten will be war, and if Khitan dares to intervene in this matter, based on Sun Yue's understanding of Zhao Tingmei, he should be right. Take him in too.

As for Sun Yue, this guy is even busier. The reason why Zhao Tingmei is so hasty and shameless is probably because of Sun Yue.

For sailing, who stipulates that you can only go to the New World? Southeast Asia is also a good place. Although there is no rubber or tobacco in Southeast Asia these days, there is still Champa rice. Is this possible? The grain output of the Song Dynasty has directly increased by at least two times.

So when the fleet took this thing out, the whole world was boiling.

In addition to the hard levers of grain production, the most intuitive point is that all fools know that Jiangnan is going to be developed.Isn’t there a saying in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, called Huguang Shutianxiazu, which refers to this Champa rice.

With the development of Jiangnan, related industries such as mulberry, lacquer, and copper in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will inevitably be further developed, and even become the legendary economic center is just around the corner.

Oh, by the way, with the abundance of food, the Central Plains, especially the Shandong-East region, can use the land that originally needs a lot of wheat to grow cotton, which can further promote the development of the cotton textile industry.

In short, this is something that affects the whole body. With just this thing, Sun Yue became the de facto leader of all businessmen in just a few months. Even those who were very willing to hang out with Zhao Tingmei, Also switched to Sun Yue.Even the local Xiang troops that he was proud of were driven south in large numbers by the capitalists sent by Sun Yue to open up wasteland.

Zhao Tingmei didn't rush to see the hell, she almost took the initiative to stir up side troubles to divert the main conflict.

However, this is just an appetizer.

As I said before, Sun Yue has a trump card that can make Semu people obedient. After the introduction of champagne rice, the enthusiasm for navigation in the Song Dynasty has suddenly become unprecedentedly high. Xue Juzheng in the House of Lords said I am much more confident.

After Sun Yuesi thought about it and discussed it with Sun Chunming, Sun Yue decided to use it.

In fact, it is a very simple little trick, that is, to send the Semu people of Jizhou to Zhiwa country.

The country of Wa, at least for the cannibals in the early Song Dynasty, is still very strange and strange, but this place is full of treasures, such as lacquerware, such as... Baiyin.

Because of Sun Yue and Sun Chunming's changes, the bank began to issue silver coins, and the credit value of them was far greater than the actual value. Although it was minted, the price of silver on the market also increased many times at once, even more than gold. expensive.

Didn’t the Song Dynasty produce silver internally? In fact, Central Asia and Europe didn’t produce much silver either.

Once the country of Wa was developed, a large amount of silver flowed into the hands of these women, and if they brought the silver to Da Song to buy things, the money would probably be infinitely easier to earn than robbery.

Of course, this blow to the Song Dynasty's economy itself is absolutely collapsed.

Just like the Ming Dynasty in the [-]th century, a large amount of silver poured in, directly draining the Ming Dynasty, so that the court had no money everywhere if it wanted to do something, and eventually the country fell and almost died out.This can even be the number one reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, which is much more serious than natural disasters such as small glaciers.

With a wave of the double-edged sword, Semuren didn't know, anyway, Da Song must be cut off half of his life first.

(End of this chapter)