Archery of Gongshou Rivers and Mountains

In other words, Wanyan Kang, with his curiosity about the contemporary Western world, and his vigilance against future enemies after years of hard work, has really opened up and stabilized the route to the West—a true To fight is not to describe.

The Maritime Silk Road has been initially established since the Han Dynasty. However, most of the eastern merchant ships sailed to India and Persia, unloading silk, ceramics and other goods on board and replacing them with local spices, jewelry, ivory and other special products.But further west, it is almost unheard of.

At first, Wanyan Kang thought it was because a safe shipping route had been formed, and the maritime merchants were unwilling to explore unknown areas.Later, when he ordered his fleet to go further west, he realized that perhaps seeking stability was indeed part of the reason, but not all.After all, maritime merchants were originally a group of people full of adventurous spirit, and it was impossible that none of them wanted to go further west to trade.

The reason is that in India and the regimes in Central Asia, they have been second-hand traffickers for hundreds of years. By swallowing up the trade balance between the East and the West, they eat a lot of food.If businessmen in the East want to get rid of them and trade directly with the West, these people obviously cannot allow it.

Therefore, if the merchant ships in the east want to go further west... Ten out of ten will be attacked by "pirates" and the ship will be destroyed.As a result, Wan Yankang didn't know it at all, and his fleet almost suffered a big loss, but at last it was safe and all the crew members fled back to the safe zone in time.

The result... of course the fight started!

However, after all, he is on his own, and it is definitely not easy, and even very strenuous, to fight against a bunch of countries that defend their vested interests.And some maritime merchants in Song Dynasty who had formed an alliance with him also began to hold him back.Because of the war at sea, normal trade was hindered.

Just when Wanyankang felt that he had to give up, at least his generation couldn't reach the Europa Continent, a stronger force stepped forward to help - the Great Song Navy!

In other words, in the past few years, Da Song has also undergone tremendous changes.

First of all, after Song Ting returned to the north, the capital was no longer Bianliang, but the central capital was renamed Beijing, and Beijing was established as the capital.Both the people and the imperial court have been arguing about this matter for a long time, and they all opposed it, but in the end the capital was still set in Beijing.

The rumors from the imperial court were said by Zhao Yuju himself. The palace in Bianliang had been abandoned for a long time. If they moved there, they would have to build a lot of buildings. There are all ready-made ones in Beijing, and they can be used when they come here. It doesn’t cost anything. .After all, the imperial court has just recovered the lost land, and construction projects are needed everywhere, and money is needed, and the national treasury is not full at all, so it is a little bit of savings.

So the voices of opposition were not absent, but they were all lowered. It is better for the emperor to be diligent and thrifty than extravagant and wasteful.No one wants to be taxed.

The second major change is the military system of the Song Dynasty. After Song Gaozong went south, the Song court opened the Marshal's Mansion to control the army, and the power of the Privy Council to control the army weakened. This was originally to elevate the status of the soldiers during the war, but the result... It seems to be useless.It's still like fighting desperately by being a soldier, but when you turn your head, no matter the common people or the gentry, they still want to scold you.

With great reputations such as "Great Achievements Unseen in Hundreds of Years", "One Emperor of Zhongxing" and so on, Zhao and Ju drew their swords against the army. The generals are naturally welcome, but civil servants... I heard that they died after hitting a pillar Admonitions are lined up.

But at that time, Wanyan Kang was still leading people to build houses and hunt in the wasteland of Siberia, but it didn't take long for him to stabilize before he fell ill again.So when he got the specific situation of the military system reform in the Song Dynasty, he was embarrassed-it seemed that this was the military system of later generations he talked about when he was chatting with Zhao Yuju. He really didn't expect, Zhao Changed and moved to the present with Ju Xiu...

Another change is the matter of the Mongolian grassland. Zhou Weihan and Yelu Jiusi struggled on the grassland for a while. In fact, what they were tossing about was the western style of grazing on large pastures.But there is a problem—their population is still too small. Even though Wanyan Kang has harmed the grassland so many times, when he went to Siberia, he still flattened all the tribes along the way.But compared to the population of the entire prairie, Zhou Weihan and the others were too small a minority.

They asked Wanyan Kang for help, but at that time Siberia absolutely couldn't spare any manpower for them.So Wanyankang helped them think of a bad idea-how did Laomei develop the western region?Gold, oil!The gold rush and the oil rush brought about a completely voluntary, large-scale population migration by non-governmental organizations.

So, "XX found a gold mine in XX!" This kind of news spread all over the country overnight. Easterners are more attached to the land than Westerners, and they are more stable and restrained, but there will always be people who are eager for gold. , while carrying the bag on his back, heading towards an unknown direction.Of course, most of these people are local proletarian rogues, fugitives who broke the law, or poor and unknown people in the world.

But in the grassland, the honest people... really can't live there.Some of these people died because of various reasons; Wan Yankang handed down the military training method, after practicing for half a month, he would be beaten into a piece of iron, and after a year or two, he would become a good piece of steel.

And those who actually found the gold mine, and those who also found a place to belong, will also return home.So some lives are slightly better than theirs, but because of all kinds of people who are willing to leave, they are also tempted-people move to live, trees move to die!

At the beginning, Wanyankang came up with this idea just to gain some population for Zhou Weihan and the others, but what he didn't know was that this triggered a long immigration wave in the Central Plains that lasted more than ten years.Originally, the people of the Song Dynasty were very active in their thinking, because there were many urban residents in the Song Dynasty, which was a miracle in the feudal society. After the country was reunified, it was full of various opportunities.

So not only from the Central Plains to the Mongolian grasslands, some people even went to Siberia and even further afield.Immediately afterwards, this wave of immigration blew overseas again.When Wan Yankang left Houjin and took the fleet to immigrate to various islands, more people also came here from the mainland.After another two years, the imperial court directly sent officials to set up prefectures and counties—this was really an effortless expansion of territory.

In other words, Wanyan Kang also thought about going to Japan or Goguryeo to do harm, but... he didn't find an excuse or opportunity to do it.The reason is that these two countries are too obedient now!Even during the period of confrontation between Song and Jin, the country of Wa supported many items in the Southern Song Dynasty free of charge, the most important thing was sulfur - which was mainly used for firearms in the Southern Song Dynasty - completely free of charge.Although Goryeo was also courteous to Jin, she was more submissive to Song.

As long as people with a little bit of status in these two countries, they will definitely speak the official dialect of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the characters used are all Chinese characters. Even the country of Wa often sends fleets full of noble women to the Central Plains to cross the species. This is why the nobles of the country of Wa became "" The "Hua" clan... So, it's all like this, Wanyankang can only give up, and he also wants to understand that the situation in the Wa country is like this, as long as the country is always strong, then they will always be submissive.

At this moment, the territorial map of the Song Dynasty has reached a terrifying size, and the actual control area of ​​the Song Dynasty is even more terrifying...

After years of development, the current Great Song Dynasty is strong and strong!The navy of the Song Dynasty came to help, they were sure to win, but Wan Yankang, especially Ouyang Ke, was full of wariness.He never forgot that Wanyan Kang was kidnapped and placed under house arrest many years ago.

In particular, the navy sent a letter to Wanyan Kang through the fleet.On the first sheet of the letter, there were only two large characters: Brother Kang.

There are more words on the second piece of paper, three words: Prince Zhao's Mansion.

There are more on the third paper, five words: younger brother and Ju Jinghou.

"Wanyankang, what do you mean by that look... Don't tell me, are you really going?! Wanyankang!! You are going, don't expect me to save you this time!"