Zhao Huan was thinking that you, Zhuang Chengyi, are just the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs. You don’t know anything about war and economy?

Putting aside the fact that no matter how big a country is, it will be in danger if it forgets to fight, which is known to children of later generations, even if we simply take the Song Dynasty as an example, there is no possibility of losing money in the war.

Have you ever heard of the saying that when a cannon goes off, you get ten thousand taels of gold?

The treasury gives money to the Privy Council to purchase firearms, and the Privy Council takes the money to the Ministry of Works to purchase firearms. The Ministry of Works then distributes the money to its subordinate workshops, and the workshops distribute the money to the workers. The workers' incomes are greatly increased, and their spending power will also increase.

If it is greatly increased, won't your household tax revenue be high in the end?

On the surface, it seems that some of the money was blown into smoke, but after the smoke dissipated, a large area of ​​land would enter the Song Dynasty's pocket. And a large area of ​​land means a large amount of resources——

In addition to good things like ivory and spices, Srivijaya also has a lot of mineral deposits that can be mined. The entire Srivijaya is covered with oil, natural gas, tin, bauxite, coal, gold, and silver.

and other minerals.

In addition to making money, doing Srivijaya can also transfer domestic conflicts to the outside world, so that those green men who have too much energy to vent will be brave enough to fight in public and timid in private fighting. Not only can they bring back a large number of laborers to fight

Infrastructure construction, and by the way, we can also get some gold to make up for the holes in the national treasury.

It also saves the national treasury sitting on the Iwami Silver Mountain from running around with rats every day.

Based on this premise, the price of five guan for a laborer is still a big deal? Then it’s a strategic investment, right?

Are there other things like building a new city, social education, building roads, dredging rivers, etc. Aren't these all normal infrastructure activities? Infrastructure construction costs money, but large-scale infrastructure construction can not only increase people's income, but also drive the economy.

development, otherwise how could there be a saying that miracles would rejuvenate the country?

The dignified Minister of Household Affairs doesn’t even know this, yet he even wrote a Facebook letter to accuse me! Bah!

"There are gold mines in that place of Srivijaya."

While Zhao Huan was complaining crazily in his mind, he casually annotated these nine words on Zhuang Chengyi's memorial.

As long as there is such a nine-word comment, Zhao Huan does not need to worry about the rest of the matter - Zhuang Chengyi, the old man, will definitely try his best to urge the Privy Council to send troops to deal with Srivijaya.

After finishing a bunch of question books, Zhao Huan turned his attention to the Kingdom of Jin.

Compared with the Han, Tang, and Ming dynasties, the original Song Dynasty was indeed a weakling. There is no doubt that the Han, Tang, and Ming dynasties all went out to destroy other people's houses, even if they occasionally failed to win.

You won't suffer a loss, at least you can protect your capital.

The Song Dynasty sat at home and waited for others to smash it. This is why the Song Dynasty's war winning rate was much higher than that of the Han, Tang, and Ming Dynasties, but it was considered weak.

No matter how high the winning rate is, it can't hide the fact that one's own house was smashed to pieces.

But looking at it from another perspective, the reason why the Song Dynasty was so weak was that, in addition to the problems caused by its own emphasis on culture and suppression of military affairs, there was actually another very important reason that was often overlooked -

The Liao Kingdom was not the kind of nomads who only knew how to ride on horseback, and neither was the Jin Kingdom. And the later Mongols were also not idiots who only knew how to kill on horseback.

In fact, whether it was the Liao Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom, or even Mongolia later, the learning ability of these Tangkou was not weak. The Song Dynasty had infantry armor, and the Jin Kingdom had the Iron Pagoda. Mongolia not only had heavy armored cavalry, but also took the lead in developing

A big killer weapon like a returning cannon.

It is really bad luck for Da Song Stall to have such a bunch of neighbors.

Just like now, even though Zhao Huan had tried his best to defend it, the flintlock guns that had just been installed in the Song Dynasty were still secretly learned by the Jin people.

Although the accuracy of the Jin Kingdom is not high and the range is not as good as that of the Song Dynasty, the Jin Kingdom is not ambiguous and directly plays the fire coverage style, hoping to solve the problem of insufficient accuracy by increasing the fire power density.

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Then Zhao Huan always felt like he had picked up the wrong script——

One emphasizes high precision, and the other emphasizes more is better. Why do you always have a sense of eagle sauce and rabbit? Da Song seems to be eagle sauce? Jinlu is more like a rabbit?

This is so wrong, bastard, you must have picked up the wrong script!

"The general will work with the Ministry of Industry and the Royal Academy to find ways to increase the production of flintlock muskets, and the Royal Academy will speed up the production and installation of artillery."

Since the leak of the flintlock gun is an irreversible fact, then simply use the method that the Song Dynasty is best at to kill the opponent - the production capacity of the Jin Kingdom is not as good as that of the Song Dynasty, and its research and development capabilities are also not as good as that of the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty only needs

By maintaining the lead in these two aspects, it is not difficult to defeat the Kingdom of Jin.

The most important thing is that the Song Dynasty must have more firearms than those over the Jin Kingdom! The unit firepower must be stronger than those over the Jin Kingdom! The firepower density must also be higher than that over the Jin Kingdom!

Only the Song Dynasty can be treated as a late-stage patient with the phobia of insufficient firepower, and only the Song Dynasty can wipe out the land with firepower! As for the cheap ancestors of the Jin Kingdom who built slaves, what do they think they are holding the rabbit's script? Do they still want to touch the Great Song Dynasty?

Song Guohe? Are they worthy?! Bah!

…

Han Shizhong was holding the military order from the Privy Council and the joint document from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Affairs. His old face was full of tangles and pain.

The officials asked them to send all the workers to Shuntian Prefecture, the Privy Council asked them to arrest the workers as much as possible, and the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Affairs asked them to send people to protect the few workers from the Ministry of Industry responsible for exploration.

Among all these messy things, only the requests from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Affairs were the best to resolve. On the contrary, it was the requests from the Privy Council and the officials that made Han Shizhong feel as sad as his balls.

labor?

There are not many workers, but there are many in Jingguan.

After the last time he slaughtered monkeys and built a temple in Jiaozhi, Han Shizhong quickly became obsessed with the feeling of building a temple in Jingjing, and then he ran all the way to slaughter monkeys and build a temple in Beijing, never to return.

As a result, when attacking Srivijaya, there was no thought of catching laborers in exchange for money. On the contrary, dozens of large and small capitals had been built.

Now faced with military orders from officials and the Privy Council asking for labor, Han Shizhong was inevitably a little numb.

"Pass the order, those killers are not allowed to build the Jingguan again. Even if they build it, they can only use the dead monkeys and injured monkeys. The remaining ones with sound hands and feet will be gathered by this commander, and they will be transported back to Shuntian Mansion for use.

"

After feeling pain in his balls for a long time, Han Shizhong still issued an order not to engage in any more activities in Jingguan.

However, what made Han Shizhong even more distressed was that just after he said that no more Jingguan was allowed to be built, his eldest son Han Yanzhi bowed with a pained face and said: "Let me tell my father, General Hu Yan..."

The daring Hu Yantong led about fifty cavalrymen and more than 2,000 young soldiers gathered by Chenjiazhuangzi and the four major families of Palembang to surround Palembang City, and even planned to force the monkeys of Palembang City

Monkeys eat monkeys to vent their anger...

Later, the infantry led by Hua Fengchun and Liu Ergou also rushed to Palembang City. As a result, Hu Yantong became more determined to surround Palembang City.
Chapter completed!