Song Beiyun

In fact, what he is looking forward to is a film full of irony like "Modern Times", because only with continuous spurs and encouragements, society will develop in a better direction. This is beyond doubt. If society wants to move forward, it must inevitably have questions and answers to questions, as well as irony and responses to irony.

Silence on either side will pay a heavy price.

Song Beiyun knew that he could not live forever. He didn't know and wasn't sure what would happen to his offspring. Of course he hoped that it would get better and better, but risks would always exist, so what he advocated was to get as many vaccinations as possible and make more Constructive comments.

Those who are romantic and romantic, they should die if they deserve to die.

Of course, love is also one of the eternal themes of human beings. He knows that it is impossible for him to interfere, but he must not be too much. Men and women are all love brains, and they will be easily corrupted by capital.

"Worshiping ancient times is definitely a disease that needs to be cured. Young people should be encouraged to fantasize about the future, to have bold imaginations about civilization, technology, and the direction of mankind, and to make full assumptions about society, politics, and religion."

This is what Song Beiyun said, and this sentence has also been written into textbooks in the field of culture.

At this moment, the expeditionary force has arrived on the east coast of the Turkish Strait and a confrontation has begun.

This confrontation is bound to be protracted, because in the absence of a firepower advantage, forcing a crossing of the strait may be the beginning of a defeat.

According to the top-secret combat plan of the commander of the blue army, Zuo Rou, the coalition forces now want to contain the enemy's actions from two directions, preventing them from crossing the mountains and straits, waiting for the arrival of their own super weapons, and exchanging firepower superiority for deep space instead of using it. Primitive charge tactics consume limited vitality.

The combat program of this tactic is to exchange firepower for space. Now that firepower is insufficient, space is naturally insufficient.

And if there are no accidents, counting the midway supply and maintenance time of the airship, it will arrive at the front line in about three months. That is to say, by November at the latest, the most important city on the west side of the Turkish Strait can be launched. Fort launched an unprecedented dimensionality reduction strike.

Maybe the other party never thought about it, the coalition forces in Asia not only have artillery, but also have a fucking air force.Their idea may be very simple, that is, to confront each other slowly across the sea, because in this era, it is quite normal for the two armies to confront each other for ten years or something.Rarely will there be a template that will end a war in a few years or a few months or even a few days or more on the battlefield in the future.

It can now be observed that the European Army has also deployed a large number of troops on the front line, and there are also a large number of heavy weapons for defense.

These are all within the prediction of General Zuo, and even Yang Wenguang had to praise General Zuo, the god of war. God, Yang Wenguang has often stumbled at the hands of this sister-in-law.

After entering the confrontation, the two sides are actually quite calm, and the front line has relatively settled down. They have begun to use existing resources to expand farmland and production bases. After all, there is a confrontation, and there is still a lot of free time outside of daily training.

Goudan was sitting by the seaside looking into the distance this day, and he could already clearly see that the high ground on the opposite side was covered with artillery formations, which meant that the other side was also waiting for them to fight across the sea.

"Brother Goudan, what are you going to do on your rotation tomorrow?"

"I don't know either. Recently, the coalition forces have been relatively free to switch defenses."

Chapter 923: Sunny January 20, 8

The airship has already traveled to the territory of Yili. Although its speed is still slow compared to airplanes, compared to other means of transportation in this era, it is tantamount to super fast.

Everywhere he went was discussed in astonishment. This huge aircraft, even hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters above the ground, is extraordinarily huge, not to mention the more than 80 airships produced by exhausting all resources to act together. , that effect can be called earth shaking.

They are flying slowly in the sky, and the people below keep running along, and they find that they can't keep up, and soon there will be people from another place running along with them.

People are astonished, amazed and even afraid of them, because throughout the ages, except for birds, there is no other thing that can conquer the sky so unrestrained.

Although it is a weapon, it is also the embodiment of extreme romance.

On the other side, an event also happened in the same extremely romantic ocean, that is, the joint Persian caravan arrived at Quanzhou Port for the first time through the beacon of the Maritime Silk Road. Although there is a huge gap between sea ships, fortunately, a more powerful and advanced fleet has provided them with information on sea routes, which also marks the official opening of the first stage of the Maritime Silk Road.

Compared with land transportation, sea transportation has less risk, lower freight cost, and relatively faster speed. The journey that originally took half a year or even eight or nine months to arrive can be completed in less than three months as long as it passes through the Strait of Malacca arrival.

A large number of Persians gathered at the port of Quanzhou and brought their woolen textiles, turquoise, saffron, almond and beautiful Persian girls.

Of course, this is not because of human trafficking, but because everyone knows that if they want to participate in the autumn fair held at the foot of Mount Tai, these beautiful girls are the most vivid signs.

In addition to Persia, there are also many people around who came here because of the Persian ships. Their own countries either do not have enough national strength to build sea ships or do not have suitable sea outlets, but because of the signing of the trade agreement, they only need With a part of the rental fee, you can hitch a ride on trade and go to the legendary eastern country where every inch of land is expensive.

In Persian folk proverbs, there is such a sentence: the devil teaches you to plant poppies, and the angel teaches you to plant pine nuts.

Because the Song Dynasty strictly prohibits any form of poppy importation, the market demand problem, now that piece of opium poppy that was originally planted in a large area has been eradicated, replaced by the agricultural products needed by the Song Dynasty, and the quality of beef and mutton in the Persian area is also high. Excellent, although in a sense it impacted the business of cattle and sheep products monopolized by the grassland, but Da Song didn't care, because it was big enough and ate enough, even if there were a few more Persians, it would be completely able to eat.

In the face of a huge market, all exploration can get the rewards it deserves.

In order to cope with the huge amount of overseas transactions, Song Dynasty gradually began to implement the gold standard currency system.

Of course, the gold standard has its limitations, but it is undoubtedly advanced and efficient in this era. Because it is linked to gold reserves, the currency of Song Dynasty is very stable and strong, and soon became the most popular currency in the market. one.

The first thing many foreign merchants did when they came to the Song Dynasty was to convert the gold and silver and national currency they carried with them into the newly issued currency "Yuan" in the Song Dynasty. Once these fancy banknotes were issued, they quickly began to expel the original copper plates. , and because of this, the first bank was officially listed for business.

At the same time as this bank, there is also a new government office called China Merchants.

Paper currency itself is worthless. Its value represents the purchasing power behind it. This complex exchange system is obtained after repeated calculations, so the currency stock on the market is not too much now. , There is still a large amount of metal currency in circulation.

However, as the bank receives a metal currency, it will replace a paper currency, so the total circulation on the market will remain unchanged.

The currency issuing unit is also the department that has carried out the most severe death penalty since the reform of the Song Dynasty. The audit of other units is annual and semi-annual, but the audit standard of this place is monthly, and auditors are randomly selected from Chang'an and Jinling to conduct audits.

Even if there is a difference of one cent, it is necessary to find out where the cent was spent.

Moreover, this is the only department that beheads people indiscriminately. In the event of a fire or flood, as long as there is a monetary loss, they will be directly pulled out and beheaded.

This unreasonable method has attracted a lot of criticism, but the top does not talk so much nonsense at all, just do it if you can, and get out if you can't. Something like this is going to go wrong, and it is not as simple as Da Song.

War was originally a money-burning business, but its other role was to completely open up some details of the Silk Road. Even some countries in Eastern Europe took the initiative to start contacting here, the most likely being the Grand Duke of Kievan Rus.

When he came here for the first time, he was full of envy for this highly developed country, and after visiting some of Chang'an's infrastructure, he expressed his hope for a long-term cooperation with Da Song.

Moreover, he also expressed his support for the idea of ​​bilateral reciprocity of the Song Dynasty and expressed his idea of ​​formally establishing diplomatic relations before ending his visit to Jinling.

Song Beiyun welcomed this and showed great interest in the future bilateral cooperation between the two.

During the visit to Jinling, Grand Duke Rus of Kievan expressed high affirmation of the educational and cultural concepts of the Song Dynasty, and after a series of understandings, he expressed extremely high expectations for deeper exchanges between the two countries.

The attitude of the Principality of Kievan Rus is the attitude of the entire Eastern Europe. They themselves were excluded by the white skins in Europe. They originally sought more valuable partners for self-protection, but now they find that the country in the East can be described as great. Therefore, Grand Duke Rus of Kievan immediately decided to formally carry out in-depth economic, trade and cultural cooperation with this mysterious and great country in the East.

However, compared with the huge gap in productivity between Kievan Rus and Da Song, the trade between the two sides is mainly based on the purchase of industrial products and grain products from Da Song by Kievan Rus, among which the Grand Duke of Kiev himself signed a production demand for 100 coal stoves , and Song Dynasty ordered [-] tons of various grains, timber and [-] million tons of coal from the Principality of Kievan Rus for bilateral trade reciprocity.

For these huge orders, even the advance payment alone is enough to usher in a new round of vitality for the industry of Kievan Rus.

Grand Duke Rus of Kievan is very grateful to Song Guo for this, and hopes to meet His Majesty the Emperor Song.

But after hearing that the Song Kingdom had actually abolished the imperial system, the Grand Duke fell into deep thought on the spot, because in his understanding, a dynasty would not be able to operate normally without the emperor.

But now such a powerful state of song really has no emperor, which made him very curious, so he offered to let his son come to the state of song for exchange and study, and hoped to build a road leading directly to the capitals of the two countries.

Of course, this kind of thing cannot be agreed now. After all, the distance from Jinling to Kiev is almost [-] kilometers. You know... from Jinshangdu to the New World, including the ferry on the Strait, it is only [-] kilometers.

But generally speaking, the first meeting between the two countries has achieved very good results. Although there are no eternal friends between countries, according to the current model, as long as they maintain mutual benefit, then friends Still not less.

The Song Dynasty, which did not take the imperialist line, used a gentler and more friendly way to open the border, and did not open it nor force it, because Song Dynasty made it clear that it would never interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.

In the beginning, there were indeed a few countries that did not open their borders, but soon they found that they were about to be swept to death. At the beginning, they were similar to the surrounding countries. Everyone was miserable, but their neighbors began to take advantage of it. The carriage that left the Song Dynasty began to gallop, but they kept standing still. When they looked up, they found that the countries that shared a piece of leftovers from the pot were now eating barbecue.

So... there are not many iron-headed children, but there are, but it doesn't matter.After all, even the sun can’t be liked by everyone. It’s normal to have those who don’t like it, and Da Song didn’t exist to be liked by others. What’s more, their dislike is ultimately because of Da Song’s existence. In addition to their own monopoly position, for example, among the countries in the Western Regions, most of the countries are pro-Song, and some countries are very pro-Song, but there are still a few who are very resistant to the Song.

Song Beiyun was quite puzzled before, but later learned that because of the Great Song's Silk Road plan, many countries are now able to export natural phosphorus and potassium fertilizers to the Great Song, and this directly shakes the status of the fossil mines of the previous countries .

Look, there is not much difference between a country and a person in essence. The country is the concentrated expression of the average personality of many people, and the commonality of people will also be reflected at the national level. This is normal.

At the same time, Goudan was looking at the artillery camp on the opposite side across the Turkish Strait. Within a strait less than one kilometer away, he could clearly see every move on the opposite side, and near the enemy camp, there were still people swimming in the shallows of the sea. Frolicking, even white skins will swim over and quietly trade wine and rum for some canned food.

Both sides had a tacit understanding of this, the Asian army was not allowed to drink, and the European army had no meat to eat.Both sides get what they need. In the non-war situation, as long as the soldiers of both sides do not enter the restricted area of ​​the other side, no one bothers to care about these petty thefts.

Goudan was sitting by the sea that day. He was a scholar soldier. Although he was a soldier king, he didn't need daily training. Even if he went to the training ground, he would be persuaded to go back and read books.So he will feel bored, and as a child who grew up in an inland city, the sea is the place he yearns for the most. He will always sit here and read a book when he has nothing to do, in a daze, imitating his father Write some essays.

At this moment, two bare-chested and skinny enemy soldiers suddenly appeared in the sea. They looked about fifteen or sixteen years old. With a gun, just use your body to fight, and the dog can hit ten.

They came out of the water cautiously, then pulled out a cloth bag with great difficulty, put the wine in it in front of Goudan with a smile on their face, and then pointed to the wine on top with words that Goudan couldn't understand and said wearing something.

Goudan understood that the soldiers on duty on the opposite side had sneaked over to change the cans. Goudan nodded at them and returned to the camp, telling the battalion commander about it.

The battalion commander wasn't surprised when he heard about it, he just told Goudan not to suffer, and then let him go.

Goudan asked in surprise: "Do you really not care?"

"It's not necessary. I heard from them that there may be a group of people coming across the other side to sell things here in a few days."

Goudan didn't understand, but was really shocked, and asked curiously, "Sell something?"

"Well, it is said that when the vanguard was stationed here, the opposite side often came to sell things. The life on the other side is quite difficult. Although there is enough food, there is no meat. It is not as comfortable as we are, and you can also have fruits to eat. So after the other side finds out about it, they will often sneak in to sell some military supplies, exchange some canned food and so on."

Goudan probably understood. After he returned to the barracks, he told a few comrades about it. They seemed to be veterans, and they followed Goudan after they brought their things.

After putting down their guns, two groups of young men with black hair and blond hair turned into businessmen and began to bargain, and finally got a price that both parties thought was good. The canned pork meat left.

Goudan, who was assigned a bottle of rum, sat there looking across the strait and at the wine in his hand, but suddenly laughed.

Sure enough, everything is exactly as my father said: there is usually no difference in the will of individual individuals, only when individual individuals merge into a group, the collective will will show different differences, and usually such differences are enough to cause a catastrophe. There is an endless war, so the war is never against a certain person, but against a collective, a group.

Just like now, Goudan found that the boy who was doing business with him just now and the boy who drove the people to the battlefield were both the same boy but a different boy. The unity of opposites appeared in the same group of people, so sometimes it was really difficult to distinguish.

And Goudan also found that there was a very colorful picture book in the wooden box of rum, with a paragraph written on it, after handing it over to the translator, the translator smiled and took a sip of Goudan's wine, pointing to the handwriting on the picture book Said: "My name is William, I am the son of a farmer, and I hope to make friends with you."

"Haha..." Goudan also laughed, then suddenly pursed his lips and stopped talking.

The translator is an old man, and he leaned lazily under the shade of a tree: "War, that's it, it's very cruel. When we put down our guns, we are just ordinary people, but when we pick up our guns, we are beasts." The only difference is that our discipline ensures that we can preserve the last of our humanity. There is no way, Mr. Song said, he has been avoiding war all his life, but this time he cannot avoid it, because the flag on the opposite side can Anyone who turns into a monster of a beast, I believe."

"Do you know Mr. Song?"

"Oh, brother. I came from a prestigious school. Does Chang'an Foreign Affairs University know? I major in Turkic and Latin." The translator lazily raised his legs: "I have also taken Mr. Song's class, why? You also know?"

"My father."

"You brag." The translator sneered: "You go ask, there are dozens of people in our camp who claim to be Mr. Song's son."

"I, Song Zhen. Father's eldest son!"

"Fuck!" The interpreter turned down from the earthen steps: "Really?"

"hold head high……"

"Then you are not the prince!"

"Don't talk nonsense! Let people hear you, I guarantee you will be locked up." Goudan sat next to him: "When do you think we can finish this battle?"

"See when the opponent loses, have you ever been on the battlefield?"

"Go up."

"Then it's over, those people are not human, what did Mr. Song tell us at that time? It's better to chase the poor with the remaining courage, not to be known as the overlord."

Chapter 924: Rain on February 20, 9

When everyone's eyes were fixed on Yuanzheng and a series of policies of the Song Dynasty and prepared to keep up with the trend, an undercurrent in the imperial palace of the Liao Kingdom had gradually become apparent.

This day, Han Qi is working. These days, he always has trouble sleeping and eating. He doesn't know what happened or what is going to happen. He just feels a little terrified. He is almost 40 years old and has been in charge of the Liao Kingdom for half his life. I didn't feel this way before, but now I'm basically stable, and when the time is ripe, when Song Liao goes to the negotiating table to discuss the unification issue, this feeling suddenly comes to my mind.

"Yuan Tong, Yuan Tong?"

He called his subordinates, but no one responded. He felt a little strange and got up to investigate.

But as soon as he opened the door, he found a troop of soldiers outside trotting into the central yamen. Han Qi frowned and stood at the door without saying a word.

Not long after, several people came in, the leader being the elder brother of His Majesty the Daliao Emperor and the second master of the Song family.

"Mr. Han, please."

After all, Han Qi has seen the wind and waves. After experiencing countless trials, he is now as depressed as a mountain. Seeing the second master appearing in this posture, he probably knows what he is going to do.

But he is not as good as his father, Han Qi's most personal experience is that he can't cheer up in front of Song Beiyun at all, and he can't escape Song Beiyun's palm in several confrontations.But in front of this kid, he didn't panic at all, because in his opinion, this was a crying child begging for milk.

"My lord, although you are a prince, do you know what you should do to seize power in a coup d'état?"

Han Qi's voice made the second master stunned for a moment, but then he waved his hands and said, "When did I have a coup d'état? It's just to clean up the courtyard while my lord Long Live is away. Don't talk nonsense, Mr. Han, please move."

Han Qi shook his hands lightly, walked forward with a smile and stretched out his hands, but given his identity, who would dare to put shackles on this master, not even the second master.

"Mr. Han, don't get me wrong. I just want to invite Mr. Han to go to the summer resort to rest for a while, that's all."

Han Qi laughed loudly: "My lord's kindness is appreciated by Mr. Han, but at this juncture, my lord still has a good plan."

"What's your plan? Don't joke, Mr. Han. Come and take Mr. Han to the villa."

The second master is just pretending to be confused, why he dare not touch Han Qi, is it because if he really kills Han Qi, then the matter will not be as simple as nonsense, then even if it is The younger brother couldn't keep him even if he begged for mercy.

And now the reason for his coup is to delay the unification of the Liao Kingdom. As long as he can survive until his father retires, then everything will turn around.

After all, the Liao Kingdom is a dynasty in the Central Plains, and its prestige is no worse than that of the Song Kingdom. Although the Song Kingdom is gaining momentum, the problem is that the Liao Kingdom is not bad, and even if the Liao Kingdom borders the Song Kingdom on all sides, the problem is actually not that big. Well, as long as it drags on, as for whether there will be a war, it definitely won't.

"My lord, I would like to advise you." Han Qi sat on the carriage and said to the second master: "With the current situation, the reunification of the world is only a matter of time. If you try to delay and clean up the unified faction, it will not only be useless but counterproductive."

"Oh? Why did Mr. Han say that?"

Han Qi smiled slightly, but stopped talking, because he was sure that this kid didn't know his father at all, not even as much as he knew Song Beiyun.

But it's no wonder he, father and son haven't spent much time together these years, and Song Beiyun is also a strange person. If you don't carefully understand what he does, it's easy to regard him as a jester relying on the stubborn emperor.

But in fact, the Song Dynasty has today, half of it is Zhao Xing and half is this Song Beiyun. The two of them support and rely on each other, and together they made the country come to where it is today.

In terms of iron fist, Song Beiyun can be called the number one in the world. He is the one who sings the black face in Da Song, who rewards the good and punishes the evil.

And this young prince didn't even understand this point. It seems that there really wasn't much communication between the father and son.