"The method of making gunpowder comes from science. If you want to learn, please go to the other side of Byzantium, a place called Uskuldar! This is a brand new name, please don't make a mistake."
Just when Alexander's army swept across Lycia and successively captured Thelmessus, Pinale, Xanthus and Natara, such a statement suddenly appeared along the Aegean coast.
Gunpowder, since the Battle of Halicarnassus, has become a mysterious weapon famous in the Greek cultural circle.
The mysterious heaven represented by Li Ning was even blown up to the sky by them.
Many people began to explore the mystery contained in it, but because the light curtain was secretly guarded by Li Ning and others, no one could successfully succeed.
As for the various explanations that have begun to circulate on the market, they are basically subjective assumptions and fabrications.
Alexander, on the other hand, after learning this statement, approached Li Ning with some diligence and asked if the school built on the other side of Byzantium would really teach the method of making gunpowder.
Li Ning gave him a very decisive and sincere answer in the negative. As always, he quickly gained Alexander's trust without even asking him what the reason was?
Li Ning knew what Alexander was worried about. Once those intellectuals from the southern city-states of Greece knew how to make gunpowder, they would most likely make an early judgment at home. In that case, Alexander, who was on an expedition abroad, would be unable to suppress it.
But this was also extremely threatening to the Song Dynasty, so Li Ning would not allow the method of making gunpowder to spread. He said this just to promote his school.
After all, he still hopes that gunpowder can continue to help him show off his power on the battlefield, unless he encounters an army of hot weapons and is strategically disadvantaged. In that case, he will hope that more and more people will master this mysterious weapon so that he can Fully guarantee the continuation of civilization.
Of course, it is very likely that this filing will actually have to be used, but he has no intention of preparing for it now.
What is more important is very clear in his mind. The colonial actions of the Song Dynasty are still very simple and superficial, the results achieved are extremely unstable, and the status in the ruled area is even more unstable.
Therefore, starting technological propaganda prematurely is not conducive to ensuring unity, because technology is one of the best weapons used to arm the revolution.
Although his understanding is simple and general, it happens to be applicable at this time.
When the Macedonian army encountered stubborn resistance near the city of Marmara, and once opened the door to victory with the help of the Celestial Kingdom's gunpowder weapons, his understanding became even stronger.
——If this weapon is in the hands of the Persian army, then the whole of Greece, including Sparta, which has the strongest combat power, will probably live up to the Greek civilization stained with the blood of the martyrs of the previous 200 years.
Only when civilization first communicates politically can it seek extensive development in technology. Otherwise, scientific research power must be concentrated on the most core members. This is the reason why the Beijing Scientific Research Institute was established.
Although the word "scientific research" is still hard to pronounce among the scholar-bureaucrats, officials and common people in both the government and the public have gradually seen hope in the light curtain transaction.
Although what actually falls into their hands is still only a very small part. After all, the throughput of goods becomes very embarrassing due to the small area of the light curtain. Cargo congestion often occurs, but smart people who want to make money have already The search for a suitable solution for this has already begun.
When Li Ning's idea of establishing a school spread throughout the government and the public, all scholar-officials and businessmen saw a clearer future. Since the transportation of goods was difficult, raw materials and talents should be concentrated on the same side of the coffin.
In this way, they can make a fortune without crossing the light curtain. Therefore, many people have begun to apply for visas and passports. They are preparing to bring craftsmen to the other side of the light curtain to develop, directly firing porcelain and spinning silk there. It can save the trouble of transportation.
In contrast, the Greeks were slower to respond in this regard, and no one even planned to go to the Song Dynasty to seek wealth and wealth by relying on their special skills.
Most of the Greeks who obtained relevant passports and visas at this time came to see the novelty. And the descriptions they were able to bring back were all kinds of exaggerated descriptions of wealth and a good life.
Greek rhetorical literature may be so keen on exaggeration and all kinds of wild imaginations. and self-righteous willful cleverness.
Just like some records about Alexander are unreliable, Li Ning has heard enough of the legends brought back from the Song Dynasty.
At the same time, he was also worried that his yearning for the wealth of the Celestial Empire would set off a second storm of ambition to invade the Celestial Empire. The only good news was that the city walls outside the light curtain had been built, and the fortress on the Granicas River was even more... They have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
In the civilized world of ancient Greece, the construction speed of stone buildings was very slow.
But in the Song Dynasty, soil cement had already been invented. Although its use seemed ridiculous, it was used to strengthen tombs and prevent tomb robberies. However, Li Ning, who was foresighted, applied this technology to Qingqiao, Hsinchu. Coming up is not a difficult thing.
What's more, things like concrete are not difficult to find traces in the Western world, and volcanic ash is the legendary building material of the Shang family. In front of the people of the Song Dynasty waving silk, there were no rough materials and labor that could not be raised. Where are you getting up?
As a result, a large amount of low-quality silk was transported to the outside of the light curtain by the Fujian Transport Department, and became goods that merchants from all walks of life rushed to buy. The merchants provided various purchase funds, and some simply bartered labor and construction. Price paid for materials.
Pang Ji was happy to see this.
For a traditional holy doctor like him, the biggest benefit of conquering a foreign land is to obtain the special products there.
When the Eastern Han Dynasty was operating the Western Regions, various vegetable seeds collected from Xinjiang to the west became the most important trophies of the princes and nobles. It was even at that time that the vegetable base in Shandong appeared where vegetables gathered. Signs.
The Eastern Han Dynasty, which regarded eating as the "first of eight political affairs", was undoubtedly pragmatic. His changes in people's lives were remembered by all the poor people in the future. That's why some people in the Song Dynasty were thinking about the rice of Champa State far south of Jiaozhi.
The Song Dynasty was actually a country that liked to introduce new species. Unlike the late Ming Dynasty, which was pried open by the Age of Discovery, these introductions were more a result of the country's active exploration and commercial exploration. For example, watermelons were also grown on a large scale at this time. The women who entered the Chinese mainland, including the eggplant known as Kunlun purple melon, have also been promoted to a certain extent in planting technology.
Under the temptation of these benefits, the officials of the Light Curtain Department certainly hope to find some useful seeds from these depressed places.
It is credible that, except that the Phoenicians provided them with some cats from Egypt, they have not yet found any more species available.
Egyptian cats are not the same as traditional Chinese pastoral cats. Some people even believe that there were no cats in mainland China originally. It was the Mongols who brought this species back during their Western Expeditions.
But in fact, cats have already appeared in the lives of ancient people in the earlier period of the Song Dynasty. Many people, including Lu You, have praised the fun of raising cats more than once.
People in the Song Dynasty even formed certain business rules. If someone wanted to get the neighbor's newborn kitten, he would need to string one or two carps on a wicker as a gift in exchange for becoming a rat-catching hero in the future. Cat people.
Food security was extremely important to the people of the Song Dynasty, so the prevention of various rodents was equally important.
But an army's stunts would not think of bringing cats to the other side of the light curtain, so in the early days of the Song Dynasty's army operations. Except for some cats raised in warehouses, there are no cats in other places. However, the arid Asia Minor has relatively soft land and large gaps, which is conducive to moving and hiding contemptuous animals, and thus it has become a very suitable place for rats to survive. Cats from Egypt became their important helpers.
This fashion was imitated even among the Macedonian army.
In today's Macedonian army, there are often people who deliberately imitate the practices of the heavenly army.
Raising cats and building schools are two of the most common.
In the school just started to be built in the Eastern Han Dynasty on the Bosphorus, many cats are now raised. Opposite it, Byzantium built a zoo because it wanted to develop tourism.
Alexander was very interested in the garden full of true love art. It was the result of trade with merchants by Pang Ji and other officials of the Light Curtain Division under Li Ning's suggestion.
That garden was built very quickly, much faster than the school opposite.
But Alexander and other Greek intellectuals were not dissatisfied because of this. Only Li Ning began to be slightly worried, because the Song Dynasty people finally found one of the important ways to bring money, but what they are doing now is to transfer wealth from one place Moving to another place alone cannot obtain the benefits of colonization.
Decades later, when Sima Guang and Wang Anshi were arguing about certain provisions of the reform that had not yet been implemented, Sima Guang demonstrated financial concepts that would shock people a thousand years later.
This shock refers to Sima Guang's stupidity.
Sima Guang believed that the wealth in the world was fixed, and it was not in the hands of the people, but in the hands of the court. Therefore, Wang Anshi's reform was just to forcibly plunder part of the wealth from the people and stuff it in the court. Of course, this kind of murderous financial reform is not advisable.
However, facts have proven that Wang Anshi's reforms are not necessarily so backward if viewed in the 20th century. Even various reforms since the late 1970s have the afterimage of Wang Anshi's reforms.
In addition to the retained Baojia Law that evolved into the militia reserve system, Wang Anshi's content from 1,000 years ago has almost been completely re-done.
Among them, state-owned capital actively invested, promoted economic development through deficit economy, and created a development and speed that even American economists could not believe. This policy has a shadow of the Yifa, and the indicative law was all laws and regulations at that time. One of the most criticized.
Since those who remained evolved, and those who did not survive had to be redone, the depth of this person's vision was too terrifying.
In front of a man with such a terrifying career, Sima Guang's economic concepts were undoubtedly backward, even stale.
The word pedantic cannot even be used to describe this matter. Stupid is probably the most appropriate word.
The money in the world is not here, it is there. So, could it be that all the food eaten by the 100 million people of the Song Dynasty was stolen from other places? You must know that this continent originally supported many people, whether it was the Qin and Han Dynasties or the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it seems that there were not as many people as you in the Song Dynasty.
In this way, a simple truth is placed in front of us. Wealth comes from labor and production. This is a very simple and simple truth in later generations. Simply when financial geniuses use their own methods to create wealth out of thin air, With such simplicity, you have labeled some busybodies and philistines as pedantic and even stupid.
We are Sima Guang of another era, or we are on the way to Sima Guang. However, looking at problems from a development perspective has fundamentally prevented us from becoming the next Sima Guang. Even if we do become Sima Guang, it will be another one. Dimension's Sima Guang, but these Che Zuluan's words are not important. What is important is that Li Ning cannot let Sima Guang and others ruin his good game.
Therefore, technological innovation has become a top priority.
His road to innovation began in that small school.
Shortly after they captured the city of Marmara, Li Ning entrusted Amytas and his relatives to go to mainland Greece to recruit some craftsmen.
These craftsmen all have the same skill, which is the use of screw coin presses.
The copper coins currently used in the Song Dynasty were generally cast, which required a large amount of fuel to heat the furnace for casting the coins, and a large amount of copper material was wasted in the casting and parallel processes.
But ancient Greece had different technologies in this regard. They did not need high temperatures to melt those precious metals. Instead, they used mechanical principles to stamp out the copper materials into the desired shape through huge pressure.
The screw coin press is one of the representative tools.
There is no business more profitable than printing money directly.
If this kind of behavior may cause inflation in the era of paper money, then in the era of precious metal currency, this kind of behavior does not need to be too worrying.
So the place called Usküdar unexpectedly became the center of the currency group.
But this name actually does not belong to this time and space. In the 21st century, it is just a part of Istanbul. But who is part of who in this time and space is not yet known.
