Xiuzhou, Shanghai Wu.
The name of Shanghai Wu comes from a wine service. The so-called wine service is a wine tasting organization in the Song Dynasty, that is, a wine monopoly organization. Some wineries are government-run and are managed by government-appointed supervisors. Others recruit wealthy people to buy and operate the wineries, that is, they are contracted to private individuals. The famous 72 main stores in Kaifeng Prefecture are wine shops opened by wealthy merchants who have obtained the qualifications to make and sell wine.
Shanghai Wu is a government-run liquor store managed by officials sent by Xiuzhou Prefecture Government. The liquor store is located on the south bank of a large river called Songjiang, the boundary river between Xiuzhou and Suzhou. This Songjiang River will evolve into the Huangpu River and Suzhou River in later generations, but now it is a large river flowing from Taihu Lake to the Yangtze River Estuary, and it also intersects with the canal - this is amazing!
The Canal, Yangtze River, and Taihu Lake are connected together by this big river!
And through the canal, the Yangtze River, Taihu Lake and Songjiang itself, there are countless rivers and streams connected together.
If anyone has really seen the Jiangnan water towns that have not undergone much artificial transformation, they will know what this means?
This means that most areas in the Jiangnan Plain can be connected through the canal, the Yangtze River, Taihu Lake and Songjiang River, and then goods and people can be transported to the Songjiang Estuary through low-cost water transportation... This kind of connection is not a "county" "Counties connected to waterways" does not mean "townships connected" or "townships connected", but "villages connected".
I dare not say anything about any of them, but most of the water villages in the south of the Yangtze River have waterways leading to the Yangtze River and the East China Sea!
Moreover, the navigability of these waterways is extremely strong, and a long boat of one or two thousand stones can go anywhere. This kind of transportation convenience is simply unique!
What is even more speechless is that Jiangnan, which is obviously a water town, rarely experiences floods - because the water town not only has a lot of water, but also has strong drainage capabilities. None of the big rivers and streams passing through the Jiangnan water town is a hanging river. If someone has been living in Jiangnan, he must have never seen Xuanhe.
Therefore, the conditions for economic development in the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River are really too superior... Now that the Jinling court that rules here has a "stronger ship", capitalism is really just around the corner!
But people like Zhao Huan, Zhao Shu, Zhao Mingcheng, and Li Gang don't know about capitalism, and they don't know how powerful the local tycoons in Jiangnan are?
Therefore, they have always regarded the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains as the task of the "Royal Emperor's Brother", and at the same time regarded the "Jianghai Navy" as the foundation of the country and a means of escape.
Because of the Songjiang River, which extends in all directions and is located at the entrance of the Yangtze River, Xiuzhou became one of the two fundamental important towns of the Song Dynasty navy - the other important town was the Jinling Qinhuai Shuiguan, which was the key to whether Zhao Huan could escape in time. What a land!
The Xiuzhou Shanghai Military Port was built as a naval shipbuilding base and a home port for the fleet.
In the summer of the sixth year of Jingkang, Shanghai, which originally had only one wine shop, had turned into a new industrial and commercial city.
On the south bank of the Songjiang River, wharves, shipyards, warehouses, and foragers are lined up one after another for almost ten miles - these ten prosperous miles only occupy a small section along the Songjiang River. The potential of this city is now extremely huge. None of them have been used yet!
But just this one ten thousandth has already shocked Mahmud and Osama, the special envoys of the big food country who came from afar.
Of course, what shocked them was not the prosperity of Shanghai. At this time, Basra and Baghdad were still far larger cities than Shanghai.
What shocked these two Tianfang Sect warriors was the large naval fleet moored on the Songjiang River and the slipways of the naval shipyard that were working day and night... Of course Mahmoud and Osama could see those things. "Grenadier ships" are battleships. Those ships have rams and cannons, and they all look very huge!
Although they did not go to sea, there were sailors on each ship who were practicing - their training project was to throw stones into the water!
Of course, it is impossible for such a big ship to fight a naval battle by throwing stones... So these warships must be equipped with the terrifying "Peach Blossom Stone Thunder" - Sajjar Sultan asked Mahmu who fled to Maru After De Kashgari Khan and his Gulam warriors, he once thought that the Tang people knew magic!
However, this view was quickly corrected. Caliph Mustarhid convened jurists from Nizemiya University to conduct research, and finally came to an authoritative conclusion: there is no magic in the world, because God has never used it to Magic is taught to humans, so Mahmud Kashgari Khan was not defeated by magic, but by a secret weapon similar to Greek fire.
This weapon was named "Peach Blossom Stone Thunder".
This view had already been confirmed when the Mahmud and Usama missions arrived in Guangzhou... They spent a bag of gold coins to buy a "simplified version" from Pu Ali, a Tianfang Sect merchant in Guangzhou. "Peach Blossom Stone Thunder, a kind of paper-shell peach blossom stone thunder, has no lethality, but it can make an amazing roar, enough to frighten the enemy's war horses.
They have asked someone to bring these paper-shell peach blossom stone mines back to Baghdad and hand them over to experts from Nizemiya University for research... If the secret of the peach blossom stone mines can be cracked, the Abbasid Dynasty will not have to fear the Tang Dynasty. .
But when the dhow they were riding entered the Songjiang Estuary and saw the warships equipped with the terrifying "Peach Blossom Stone Thunder", their hearts became a little cold!
Will the Peach Blossom Stone Fleet here launch the Western Expedition like the Tang Dynasty?
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"What on earth is going on with the Tang Dynasty you are talking about? Where is the capital? What is the emperor's surname?"
In a government office on the south bank of the Songjiang River, the envoy from the Great Food Kingdom finally met two ministers of the "True Peach Blossom Stone Great Song Kingdom", one was Su Wang Zhao Shu, and the other was Li Gang, the secret envoy of the Right Privy Council.
And now the one who is impatiently asking about the situation in Tang is of course Li Gang, who is the successor of the Li Tang Dynasty.
His words were translated into Arabic by a man named Pu Ali who could speak Chinese.
Then Mahmud, the brother-in-law of Sajal Sultan, answered: "We don't know where the capital of Tang is... We originally thought that the capital of Tang was in Chang'an, but we got it in Guangzhou News, that’s not the capital of the Tang Dynasty.
As for the name of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty...according to the information we have, his name is Li Tian Khan. "
Pu Ali stood next to Mahmud, listened to his words, and immediately translated: "Returning to the Privy Council, the great cannibals don't know where the capital of the Tang Dynasty is? They also said that the Tang Dynasty emperor's surname was Li, and he was called Tian Khan. "
Zhao Shu turned to look at Li Gang and said in his heart: That's right! They are your relatives!
"How many soldiers and generals do they have?" Li Gang asked again, "How much territory of the Shiguo Kingdom do they occupy now?"
"They have at least 100,000 troops. They have not yet occupied the land of the Abbasid Dynasty, but they have destroyed the Eastern Peach Blossom Stone Kingdom, and they also covet the land of the Western Peach Blossom Stone Kingdom."
The person who answered this question was a Seljuk Turk knight named Usama. He was originally the heir of a small Seljuk state, but he was defeated in the internal struggle of the state and therefore became a servant of the Caliph. This time, Sajjar Sultan sent an envoy to the "Eastern Tang Dynasty" in the name of the Caliph. Of course, the Caliph had to send someone to follow him, so he sent Usama.
"Peach blossom stone?" Li Gang heard "peach blossom stone" from Pu Ali's translation, so he asked, "What kind of stone is this?"
"Peach blossom stone is not a stone, it is a Turkic word, which means China."
"What? China?" Li Gang jumped up immediately, "Isn't the east the Song Dynasty? The west...is that the territory of the emperor's brother?"
"No, no, no..." Pu Ali immediately explained, "No, no...it is the Khan of the Black Khan Uighur who always calls himself Peach Blossom Stone Khan, so the Western Regions call the Black Khan The Khan Uighurs regarded it as a country of peach blossoms and stone."
"Isn't this impersonation? The Black Khan Uighur dares to steal my name as China, which is really hateful!" Zhao Shu nodded, "It's no wonder that the Tang Dynasty wanted to destroy this country! But where did this Tang country come from... .The court must also find out. If this country, like the Black Khan Uighurs, faked the name of the Tang Dynasty, it must change it quickly to avoid misunderstanding. If they are really the Tang Dynasty, then... .We in the Song Dynasty can join forces with Dashi!"
Pu Ali did not translate immediately, but asked, "What does your Majesty mean, the Song Dynasty, can join forces with the Great Food Kingdom to attack the Tang Dynasty?"
Zhao Shu nodded, "Of course...there are no two days in the sky and no two kings in the people! The emperor's brother will not tolerate this Tang Dynasty. But just relying on one-sided words of the cannibal will not do it. Our court will return the favor." We have to send a mission to Dashi to find out the truth. If it is found out, the court can give some firearms to Dashi."
Pu Ali was overjoyed when he heard this, so he said to the envoys of the two big food countries: "His Royal Highness the Prince of the Song Dynasty said that as long as it can be verified that there is really a Tang Dynasty fighting against the caliphate, they, the Song Dynasty, are willing to help the caliphate to resist the Tang Dynasty. ...and give the Caliphate some kettles!”
"Of course the Tang Dynasty is real!" Mahmud is one of the heirs of the Xitaohuashi Kingdom. Of course he likes the Song Dynasty to take action against the Tang Dynasty. Otherwise, Xitaohuashi will be finished soon, and he will have no hope by then. Become a "big sweat".
Zhao Shu said: "It's not true. We have to go and see it to find out... We will send a mission to the country of Dashi and go to Dashi by sea. However, the country of Dashi is far away and our people I don’t necessarily know the way, so I’m afraid it will take several years to get there!”
Bouali quickly translated his words into Arabic.
Of course, Mahmoud couldn't wait for a few years. He quickly said: "It won't take a few years... If the wind is favorable, we can reach Baghdad in 6 months at most."
What, it will arrive in 6 months? Zhao Shuxin said: It turns out that the Great Food Country is so close! We must send a fleet over to have a look. Maybe there will be countries on the way that are easy to "help"?
