Chapter 437: The Year of the Rise of the Song Dynasty
In October, good news came from Goryeo. Miaoqing and Wang Kai fought a battle, and Wang Kai was defeated. The situation in Goryeo is very tense now.
The more tense the situation in Goryeo, it will be beneficial to Zhao Huan.
During this period, Wang Kai had not only fought with Miaoqing, but also wrote letters to Zhao Huan.
In the letter, His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Song Kingdom, who was sacred and kind, sent troops to support Goryeo, pacify the traitors, and be upright to the Qingliu.
Zhao Huan also wrote back to Wang Kai in his spare time. In the letter, he condemned Miaoqing's unjust behavior and said that the Song Dynasty would not sit idly by.
After receiving the hand of His Majesty the Emperor, Wang Kai was naturally so excited that he couldn't sleep.
So he waited in the palace, and when it was winter, it started to snow, and the Song army still had no movement.
The people's livelihood in Goryeo has shown signs of collapse due to the war.
Wang Kai finally couldn't sit still.
Wang Kai couldn't stand, but Zhao Huan was leisurely and leisurely.
A major event has recently happened in Tokyo, which is enough to attract the attention of the court.
Li Qiu'e, the shopkeeper of the Li family's cloth shop, heard that she had visited Qiongzhou a few months ago and learned a new method of weaving cotton coats from the hands of the Li people.
Now the new cotton coats launched by Li's cloth store are cheap and easy to sell. When the winter months come, the first batch of goods were stolen within one day.
Next, Huaxing Textile Machine worked day and night.
Cotton coats suddenly became popular in Tokyo, and the price was very affordable. It costs 200 cents per piece, and ordinary families can afford it.
This made Li Gang and Zhong Shidao very happy.
The mass production of this cotton coat just takes the shortage of the military's needs.
Now the northern border of the Song Dynasty has moved a lot northward. When winter comes, it is very cold, and the demand for cotton coats in the army has long been increasingly urgent.
But traditional cotton coat textile methods cannot keep up with this demand at all.
Now the Li family's deployment has changed this situation.
To be more precise, the imperial court has improved the efficiency of some commercial construction in recent years. The Li family store has sufficient supply and has been continuously put into production.
So, the Privy Council went to the Li family's clothing store to order a batch of accelerated cotton coats.
There are 50,000 pieces in total!
This made the bosses of other stores in Tokyo so greedy. Today's Song Dynasty trade is still in the most primitive era of wild growth. The market is blank and there is no competition at all.
As long as you dare to invest money, you can make money!
In just half a month, cotton coat producers on Gyeonggi Road emerged like bamboo shoots after the rain.
Everyone knows that the court needs cotton coats, and with the imperial court, the biggest buyer, there is no need to worry about not being able to sell it.
Even though the demand from the imperial court was saturated, the people were covered with black continents and money was everywhere.
So, the merchants in Tokyo were like hungry wolves, starting to spend money to hire people, and tirelessly producing cotton coats day and night.
This year, Huaxing spinning wheels have become popular in Tokyo, and steam engines are used in combination with spinning wheels.
The first time the private capital began to drink blood, and after tasted the sweetness, the capital began to show its sharp fangs.
On the streets of Tokyo City, you can see announcements of recruitment everywhere, requiring that you use a steam engine.
For this reason, some people set up special trading companies to teach people to use steam engines.
This year, the Song Dynasty had an atmosphere of the industrial era.
Not only that, many Nu people also appeared on the streets of Tokyo.
Since the Song Dynasty took back the Hetao area, many merchants in the Western Regions began to travel long distances to Tokyo City to trade with the Song Dynasty.
Moreover, many Hu people came to Tokyo and fell in love with the most prosperous city in the world.
This seems to be related to the great victory of the war against the Northwest in the Song Dynasty in recent years.
After opening up the business road, the Western Regions seemed to have opened the door to the world again.
The Silk Road, which has been blocked for hundreds of years, is slowly recovering.
For the Western Regions, they now have the opportunity to experience the commodities and prosperity of Middle Earth that were once recorded in books.
Zhao Huan was already thirty-one years old this year, and it had been seven years since he returned to the Song Dynasty.
It was snowing outside.
However, the highest local administration in the country came to Tokyo in the last month of the seventh year of Jingkang.
All the officials reported their respective situations in the court this year.
The 31-year-old Zhao Huan, sitting in the emperor's position, already had a sense of powerlessness without anger, especially his two sword eyebrows slightly frowning, giving people a sense of oppression like Mount Tai.
Listening to reports from various places, the imperial court publicly threw out questions in the court to discuss them. For half a month, they were arguing and compromising almost every day.
The emperor was quite pleased to see the officials who were red in the arguing in the court.
Problems can never be solved through debate. Zhao Huan hates the most for those old people who only know how to protect themselves all day long and don’t say a word.
I spend so much money every month to invite you to stay in the court without saying a word?
This year, the Song Dynasty advanced the five-year highway plan issued by the emperor to Xu Churen the previous year.
The road system nationwide was laid very smoothly, especially after the emergence of the steam engine, the cement manufacturing speed increased several times, the cement production volume kept up, and the speed of paving roads increased greatly.
Now, not only the roads from Tokyo to the four major sub-capitals have been completed, but the roads from Jiangling Prefecture to Tokyo, Yingtian Prefecture to Tokyo, Daming Prefecture to Tokyo, and even Qingzhou to Tokyo, Zhengzhou, Luoyang to Tokyo, have basically been opened.
Because infrastructure has been deployed on a large scale, the efficiency of commerce has been rapidly improved, and the development of commerce has made a small leap. Zhao Ding reported that the Jiaozi printing volume in Jingkang in seven years was six times that of last year.
The commercial tax submitted by the Zhou Dynasty this year was three times that of last year.
The entire Song Dynasty made a leap in the seventh year of Jingkang!
Some people say that maybe it was the sixth year of Jingkang that the Song Dynasty encountered too many disasters, and the sufferings were over.
Not only did the emperor fight the northern expedition to the grasslands, but the country was also in good weather and peace.
Just talk about Jingdong Road, it encountered the Yellow River flood the previous year. It was restored to the level of Jingkang in seven years and one year. After the general environment was improved, the people's self-repair ability also made a leap.
The most intuitive manifestation: There have been grain surpluses in many places this year!
The Jiangnan area has experienced an unprecedented harvest under the diligent development of Chen Yan in recent years.
This further strengthened Zhao Huan's determination to attack the Jin Kingdom in the north.
At the end of the year, Zhao Huan received information from Goryeo.
Wang Kai, who was desperate, began to contact the Jin Kingdom and might have to use the Jin soldiers to fight against Miaoqing.
In fact, this is Wang Kai’s dissatisfaction with the Song State. He now plans to choose to stand on Wanyan Sheng’s side.
This is also the situation that Zhao Huan expected, and he was also thinking about the situation developing in this direction.
After all, Wang Kai's orthodoxy is killed without a name, which will cause resistance across the country.
The place in Goryeo is much richer than in Japan. The people there are very arrogant and it is more troublesome to deal with.
Chapter completed!