"Third brother, do you really want to make your eldest brother the King of South Vietnam?"
In the Jinling Palace, on the Star Observation Tower, a duel is in progress.
In the Star Observation Building, you can not only watch the stars, but also sleep and work... This is a three-story "tall building" built on the platform of the top of the mountain.
So Zhao Kai was tired from watching the stars last night, so he didn't go back to Funing Hall and simply went to bed on the stargazing tower.
When I woke up, it was almost noon... Staying up late to look at the stars was very tiring!
So he simply had a meal in the Star Observation Tower, and then summoned Zhao Qi and Zhang Bangchang to discuss recruiting Zhao Huan.
Zhao Qi was quite surprised to hear that Zhao Kai really wanted to make Zhao Huan the king of South Vietnam!
He originally thought that Zhao Kai was just here to fool his sister-in-law Zhu Lian... He didn't expect that his third brother was so trustworthy and kept his word!
"Of course," Zhao Kai nodded, "A man must keep his word! Since I promised to make my eldest brother the king of South Vietnam, I will definitely make him king!"
"Third brother is a truly benevolent and righteous king, I admire him!" Zhao Qi quickly admired him - can he not admire him? Zhao Kai made his eldest sister-in-law the queen and his eldest brother the king... Li Shimin had to admire this benevolence!
"Hahaha, brothers are incompatible, how can they tolerate the world?" Zhao Kai said with a smile, "Sixth brother, after you seal the third brother, you can become a transporter... You can choose the seven routes in the southeast! "
"Then I will thank the Lord for His kindness!"
"Hahaha, thank you for what? If you can handle the task of caring for the people and collecting taxes, I should thank you!"
"My little brother must be working hard to share the worries for my brother!"
In addition to watching the stars with Zhu Lian last night, Zhao Kai also had an in-depth discussion on how to govern the southeast.
The first is the system of two capitals, North and South.
Zhao Kai couldn't move the capital to Nanjing, but he couldn't leave Nanjing alone, so he had to work harder. Nanjing and Beijing were separated.
Who allowed China's economic center to move south and its military center to move north at the same time?
Of course it was easy for the emperor to make money by living in Nanjing, but it was difficult to control the army in the north. It might lead to the "Jingnan Campaign" and the "Anshi Rebellion".
To leave the wealthy land in the southeast alone would be to let the barren land in the north bear both military and financial burdens. This was the case in the Ming Dynasty. Three of the nine towns and thirteen towns were in Shaanxi. At the same time, the people of Shaanxi had to bear a total tax and grain tax of 1.7 million shi! And this is only the taxes and grains that civilian households have to pay. Military households in the three border towns and five towns have to pay grain grains at the same time as they bear the military service of guarding the border... It is really miserable!
Zhao Kai is not that unreasonable, and he also knows that the economy of southern China has great potential in the future... If Zhao Kai can lead the Song Dynasty into the Age of Discovery in the near future, the money in the south will be even greater. Increase.
So he had to let the southerners pay for the court's expenses... The southerners paid and the northerners served as soldiers. This was Zhao Kai's top-level design!
In order to maintain this system, Zhao Kai must adopt the two-capital system of running from both ends.
Secondly, three major southeast departments were established, including the Southeast Shipping Department, the Southeast Salt Transportation Department, and the Nanjing Stay-at-Home Department.
Among them, the Great Shipping Envoy is stationed in Xiuzhou, responsible for transporting goods from the southeast to Tianjin... Xiuzhou is the part of the magical city of Shanghai, just at the intersection of the three oceans in the southeast and the Yangtze River. In addition, the Wusong River is connected to the south Canals are the best transportation hubs.
As for the first Great Fortune Envoy, Zhao Kai wanted to hand it over to his fifth brother Zhao Shu. He had great influence in the navy and maritime business circles of the Southern Song Dynasty, and had a good relationship with Zhao Kai. He was indeed the best candidate.
The Southeast Salt Transport Department is stationed in Yangzhou, and Yangzhou, Tongzhou, Taizhou, and Chuzhou are all important salt industry towns!
The salt tax must be collected properly!
Moreover, the salt industry of the Song Dynasty also had a strong financial function - the salt currency of the Song Dynasty could be used as money, which was equivalent to a kind of paper currency linked to salt.
So you have to hold it firmly in your hands!
The first salt transport envoy was Zhao Kai's half-brother Zhao Zhi. In addition, Zhao Zhi would also serve as the Huaidong Road transport envoy.
The Nanjing Remaining Department is an organization that controls Southeast finance and appeases Southeast civil servants. It is temporarily controlled by Zhu Lian, Empress of Jingkang.
The third measure to control the finances of the Southeast is to use the royal family and civil servants to jointly manage the wealth of the Southeast... This is also a helpless choice, because the consequence of letting the civil servants completely control the finances will inevitably be the overall expansion of the civil servants. . And it would not work if the Northern Fubing Group took over the transportation routes in the South. How could it be done if they had both soldiers and money?
Therefore, it is the most feasible way to enable the royal family and let them work with civil servants to make money.
Under this idea, in addition to Huaidong Road and Southeast Salt Industry being placed in charge of Zhao Zhi, the seven roads including Liangzhejiang, Liangjiang, Huaixi, Fujian, and Jingnan will all be held by the clan.
The three routes of Caochen including Jingbei, Shandong and Sichuan will continue to be held by civil servants.
The fourth measure is to enfeoff the Kingdom of South Vietnam...so that Zhao Huan and Zhao Chen, who are running away, can have a place and status to settle down, and at the same time, it can also drive them to expand southward.
This is Zhao Kai's plan to drive away tigers and swallow wolves!
However, Zhao Qi and Zhang Bangchang did not think that Zhao Huan was a tiger...
After expressing his loyalty and determination, Zhao Qi touched Zhao Kai's bottom in a roundabout way.
"Third brother, is the territory of this Nanyue Kingdom the same as the Nanyue Kingdom founded by Zhao Tuo?"
Zhang Bangchang frowned and reminded: "Officials, the two counties of Jiaozhi and Jiuzhen in South Vietnam are the current Vietnam..."
"What country is Vietnam? It's the Protector of Annan!" Zhao Kai said, "The Lord of Annan is the Protector of Annan of the Song Dynasty, Jing Haijun, Jiedu Observation and Disposal Envoy, and the Prince of Jiaozhi!"
The name of Vietnam comes from the Ding Dynasty. The founding monarch of the Ding Dynasty, Ding Buling, professed his vassalage to Zhao Kuangyin and was named the Commander-in-Chief and the Commander-in-Chief of Vietnam. Later, when the Li Dynasty came to power, he became the governor of Annan, the governor of Jinghai navy, and the king of Jiaozhi.
Zhao Kai said to Zhang Bangchang: "Zhang Qing, after you seal the title of King of Nanyue, go to the Annan Protectorate again and tell the Annan Protectorate that their Annan Protectorate is now under the control of the Nanyue King!"
Zhao Qi and Zhang Bangchang finally understood that Zhao Kai wanted to borrow a knife to kill his brother!
If you want to borrow the sword of the Annan people to deal with Zhao Huan and Zhao Chen's father and son...even if you can't kill them, you can still severely damage Zhao Huan and Zhao Chen's vitality, and it won't be difficult to deal with them again!
It's really too high!
...
In August of the 10th year of the reign of Emperor Jingkang of the Great Song Dynasty, it was off the coast of Guangnan East Road.
The bow of the battleship Shenzhou D plowed a white wave on the blue Lingding Ocean, and its track was straight to the west. The sailors on the deck were conducting gunnery drills. Following the instructions from a naval officer, the gunners skillfully filled the training bags and training bombs into the twelve five-pound long-barreled guns placed on the upper deck. Bore the gun and then conduct a simulated firing.
The Shenzhou Ding is the No. 4 ship of the "Shenzhou-type" gunboat of the Southern Song Dynasty. Compared with the previous No. 1 and No. 2 ships, it has undergone major changes and is almost a brand new warship.
First of all, the hull of the Shenzhou Ding has been greatly strengthened!
Because the hulls of the two earliest Shenzhou gunboats built were not strong enough, the hulls were damaged when the cannons were fired - both Shenzhou A and Shenzhou B suffered major damage and had to be scrapped early. The hull of the Shenzhou C has been strengthened to a certain extent, and the twelve-pound heavy cannon has been abandoned and replaced with a light five-pound cannon, so it is still in service.
Secondly, the artillery equipped on the Shenzhou D has also been improved, from the "big and useless" twelve-pound cannon to the "small but powerful" five-pound cannon.
This kind of five-pound cannon was not developed by the Southern Song Dynasty, but was "stolen" from the Northern Song Dynasty - because during Zhao Kai's Northern Expedition to Yanyun, in order to prevent Zhao Huan and Sun Quan from sneaking into Jingzhou, he set up several units in the Hanyang Army and Jiangling Prefecture. The forts were equipped with five-pound long-barreled cannons... As a result, these forts did not encounter a sneak attack by the Southern Song Dynasty's land division, but they encountered Zhao Huan's sugar-coated cannonballs!
Several money-hungry and lustful utility gunners defected to the Southern Song Dynasty, and they even brought with them the blueprints and artillery manuals for the five-pound long-barreled cannon!
With the drawings and artillery manuals, the craftsmen of the Southern Song Dynasty could of course cast the five-pound cannon according to the gourd and the gourd. After all, there was no difference in bronze casting technology between the two sides. Moreover, the craftsmen of the Southern Song Dynasty had also tried to cast many cannons and accumulated some experience.
However, this kind of five-pound cannon cannot change the weakness of the Southern Song Dynasty Army Division. After all, the gap between the Southern Song Dynasty Land Division and the Northern Song Army is all-round, and it will not be reversed just by having one or two hundred bronze five-pound cannons. Besides, the Southern Song Dynasty Army did not have enough draft horses to drag these cannons, and immobile cannons were of little use in field battles. Therefore, the Army Division of the Southern Song Dynasty was not equipped with a large number of five-pound bronze cannons. Their first choice of field artillery was the lighter eight-liang camel cannon.
However, the Navy of the Southern Song Dynasty immediately regarded the five-pound bronze cannon copied from the Northern Song Dynasty as a treasure and quickly used them to eliminate all other types of artillery.
A total of thirty-six five-pound long-barreled cannons were installed on the Shenzhou D battleship that Zhao Huan was riding on!
Twelve of them are installed on the upper deck, twenty are installed on the lower gun deck, and four are located at the stern of the ship and can fire backwards.
It is no exaggeration to say that with just this Shenzhou Ding, the navy of the Southern Song Dynasty was enough to dominate the Northern, Eastern, Southern, and Western Oceans... and was invincible throughout the world.
But such a powerful navy was useless in the battle between the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties...
Zhao Huan, who had been at sea for some days and was tanned by the sun, was standing on the raised rear deck. Looking at the soldiers below, he couldn't help but sigh!
Okay, how did it end up like this?
When he was sighing, footsteps suddenly came from behind. Zhao Huan turned around and saw that it was Li Ruoxu, the newly appointed right privy envoy.
Li Ruoxu saluted Zhao Huan, and then said to him: "Guan family, we can reach Yashan tonight!"
"Yashan?" Zhao Huan asked, "Isn't it Guangzhou?"
Li Ruoxu said: "Guan family, the situation in Guangzhou is unknown. The fleet should go to Yashan Harbor first. It will not be too late to go to Guangzhou after getting clear information."
What he means is that it is still unknown whether Guangzhou has been captured by Zhao Kai...
After hearing this, Zhao Huan couldn't help but sigh again: "Forget it, let's go to Yashan to take shelter first!"
