One Piece of Song Dynasty

After returning home to rest for a night, Li Xin took a rare nap and didn't wake up until late. After waking up, she walked around the house as usual. Because today is the Chinese New Year, the old house was decorated as prosperous as ever. .

After going around the house, Li Xin went to the county town again. Now that he is back, Li Xin plans to go to the county town every day to make his presence felt. Otherwise, he will leave again after the New Year. The people in the county town are also preparing for the New Year. Various preparations were made, the market was crowded with people shopping, and the children were all wearing festive new clothes.

Li Xin wandered around the county town and then returned home. At night, Li Mansion was as brightly lit as in previous years. After a big meal, Li Xin gave everyone a red envelope of the same amount as usual, and then went back to his house to sleep. New Year's Eve There are too few entertainment activities for the common people. There is neither the Spring Festival Gala to watch nor anything to play. Although there is Go, Go is too abstruse for Li Xin to understand, so Li Xin is considering whether to throw out some entertainment activities. Otherwise, it would be too boring at ordinary times, such as mahjong and chess. At this time, chess should not have developed into what it was in later generations. Xiangqi can be promoted in the army. It is a good thing to exercise the intelligence of soldiers. Li Xin thought about it. He decided to wait until the New Year to promote these two entertainment activities in Xinghan City.

There was no words for a night, so Li Xin ushered in the second year of Xuanhe, which is 1120 AD. For Li Xin, this year will be a year of opportunity for the great development of Xinghan Island. In October of the second year of Xuanhe, the southeast area will erupt into a world famous event. The Fangla Uprising will be an excellent opportunity for Xinghan Island to expand its population. According to records, the Fangla Uprising alone caused the death of as many as two million civilians, not to mention that half of the two million could be saved. , if Li Xin can save two to three hundred thousand civilians, the development of Xinghan Island will take a big step forward. You must know that the entire Xinghan City now only has more than people. Of course, in order to absorb these people, Li Xin must quickly start construction. After the road to Jilong City is repaired, the road construction team will start from Xinghan City to the southeast while exploring and building the road. Li Xin, the third city on Xinghan Island, plans to build it more than kilometers southeast of Xinghan City. , this will be an important grain-producing area on Xinghan Island, which will be the Yilan Plain in later generations. net

In addition, the war between Liao and Jin will resume in April of the second year of Xuanhe, which will be an important start for the many arrangements made by Liang Xing and Zhao Yun for the Jin. In addition, the maritime alliance between Song and Jin will also be completed this year; in the second half of the year There are two important things for Li Xin. One is that Li Xin is about to welcome his first wife, Liang Hongyu. As long as the Fangla Uprising breaks out, the Liang family will not be far away from suffering. The other is the voyage fleet. If it is quick, the voyage fleet should be able to return before the end of this year. If it is slow, it will have to wait until the beginning of next spring. net

Li Xin stayed in Hui'an until the first month of the year before returning to Xinghan Island. After arriving at Xinghan Island, Li Xin received news from the road construction team that they had built the road almost to the seaside. After receiving the news, Li Xin followed the road construction team manager Zheng to the end of the road. When Li Xin reached the end of the road, a bay finally appeared in front of him. Outside the bay, there happened to be an island that connected the mouth of the bay. The blocking formed a bay that was deeply recessed into the island. Although Li Xin came here for the first time, he also knew that this was Jilong Bay.

The small island at the mouth of Jilong Bay was the more famous Heping Island in later generations, commonly known as Sheliao Island. This island happened to guard the mouth of Jilong Bay and became a natural barrier for Jilong Bay, which can effectively block the northeastern part of Jilong Bay in winter. The influence of the monsoon on the bay makes Jilong Bay a natural deep-water harbor.

The natural geographical advantage has made it the most important northern gateway of Xinghan Island in later generations. It is also the largest seaport on Xinghan Island. It has also made it a well-known cargo handling port in the world. In addition, it is also the most important port on Xinghan Island. One of the fishing ports. Moreover, when the Japanese pirates were rampant in the Ming Dynasty, this place was also one of the lairs of the Japanese pirates. The Japanese pirates hid here and used this place as a base to set out for large-scale plunder along the coast of China. After being attacked by the Ming Dynasty official army, they fled back here. They escaped and used this place as their paradise, but now that Li Xin is here, things like this will never happen again in future generations.

Li Xin observed the terrain of Jilong Harbor through a telescope. Jilong Bay was indeed a place that was easy to defend but difficult to attack. Those who control this place only need to build a few forts on Heping Island and the opposite promontory, and mount a few heavy cannons. If someone wants to invade the bay and does not pull out these forts, then It's basically wishful thinking.

Several forts can control the two waterways entering Jilong Bay. Any ship that wants to forcefully rush into the bay will be bombarded by the heavy artillery of these forts.

Even if the enemy can pull out a few forts near the mouth of the bay and enter the bay, and Jilong Bay itself is surrounded by mountains on three sides, as long as we choose a few places in the bay that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and build a few more forts, then here It can basically be said to be impregnable. From the perspective of the surrounding terrain, as long as a few points are controlled, no matter where the enemy lands, if they want to capture Jilong Bay, they will have to pay a huge price.

After surveying the terrain, Li Xin said to Old Man Zheng: "Uncle Zheng, take the road construction team back to Seoul to get more kerosene, and burn the forest at the mouth of the bay. After the burning, you will not be able to build the road." It’s our team’s business. I’ll give you a new mission after I return to Xinghan City.”

Old Man Zheng cupped his fists and said, "Okay, Master, I understand."

Li Xin visited Jilong Bay again and then returned to Seoul. Two days later, Zhao Fei actually came to see Li Xin. It seemed that something important must have happened.

Zhao Fei cupped his fists and said, "Let me tell you, there is a new discovery in the cement workshop."

Li Xin was surprised and said: "Oh, what's new?"

Zhao Fei said: "A Confucian scholar named Feng Yu discovered a cement that is stronger than the cement we currently use to build roads by changing the proportions of several raw materials."

Li Xin nodded and said: "Okay, let's go take a look."

Li Xin went to the cement workshop with Zhao Fei. After entering the workshop, Li Xin saw Feng Yu playing with several cement blocks.

Li Xin looked at a few cement blocks and said, "Feng Yu, are you responsible for all this?"

Feng Yu nodded and said: "Yes, these are several cements calcined by changing the proportions of several raw materials. Among them, this one is the strongest, much stronger than the cement we use to build roads." Feng Yu said The hand pointed to one of the pieces of cement.

Li Xin said: "Okay, have you done experiments?"

Feng Yu replied: "Yes, all the cement blocks here have been tested for hardness."