Chapter 1,135 Zhangzi Island

Zhao Xu nodded: "Just reply to him like this!"

Su You recorded the eight words on the translator's head and handed them to the translator, leaving the science and engineering team busy.

Feng Jing said: "It's good, but the propagation distance is too short now. The entire Kaifeng Mansion is only fifty miles away."

Su You nodded: "This is a trial-stage product, demonstrating the feasibility of this project."

"Scientific and engineering experiments are like this. You have to do it step by step. Now that the experiment is successful, it proves the feasibility of this project. There are still countless research bottlenecks waiting to be overcome."

"The next step is to connect the telegraph line to Sanji and Sifu, then Zhengzhou upstream and Puyang downstream, so as to extend the communication distance step by step."

"The Military Aircraft Department will initially establish a communications class. In any case, it is more convenient and reliable than raising pigeons, transporting them and releasing them."

Feng Jing praised: "Mingrun always does things in a systematic way. Will we complete the connection from Zhengzhou to Puyang this year? If we complete this step and have three days of emergency response time, we can at least break the dike without killing anyone."

Su You was a little speechless: "Prime Minister Feng, your request is too low. My suggestion is to ask the Capital Water Supervision and the River Drainage Department to complete the construction of flood diversion channels for many key rivers below Kaifeng by April next year. As long as there are

More than five main flood-discharge channels are well-constructed, and even if the embankments are not raised, the Song Dynasty will have the strength to fight a century-old flood."

"However, we still need to consider the long-term, complex and arduous nature of the process. It has taken more than ten years to control the Jinghe River, and now it has achieved initial results, which shows that the plan of planting trees and fixing sand is still feasible."

"Therefore, I would like to suggest to Your Majesty that this plan be implemented in the entire Yellow River basin, including some tributaries with turbid water, to reduce the amount of sediment in the Yellow River, and to combine it with the downstream dam project to buffer the degree of sediment accumulation downstream."

"It's too late to do this now. If it is left to future generations, they will pay a heavier price."

Zhao Xu asked: "How will the people along the river live on animal husbandry be resettled? Also, the land along the river is convenient for getting water. If the farmland is turned into forest, won't the people complain?"

Su You said: "Therefore, we must vigorously promote castration and tailing in captivity, high-quality forage planting and storage methods, and windmill and well irrigation to solve the livelihood problems of livestock farming after the migration of people along the way."

Feng Jing felt that this pattern sounded familiar: "Xiangzhou model?"

Su You smiled and said: "I'm afraid the Xiangzhou model won't work. If the Han family is persuaded by the Xiangzhou model, it can play a leading role. Shaanxi Yanhe does not have such power and can only rely on the ability of local state officials."

After speaking, he bowed to Zhao Xu and said, "Your Majesty, the South China Sea is now stable. Lu Huiqing's political abilities are very good. They have exceeded their seniority in the South China Sea for a long time, and they should be replaced in the mainland."

"Local officials from Jiaozhi and Champa should also be included in the performance evaluation process to give them a way to advance, so as not to become too powerful in the local area and go back to the old path of the Han and Tang Dynasties."

"People from Nanhai yearn for Guangdong and Fujian in the Song Dynasty. Most of the local gentry have their ancestral home in these two places. It is better to use the test plan to select officials from these two places to strengthen their connection with the Song Dynasty and consolidate their attachment to the Song Dynasty.

, and the two places are not too far from the South China Sea, so they will not have any dissatisfaction."

Zhao Xu nodded: "Those two places are so good that the officials in my court regard them as intimidating places. The government has been complaining about the lack of personnel. This is a good idea."

Feng Jing hesitated: "If they occupy Guangdong and Fujian, wouldn't it be troublesome?"

Su You said with a smile: "I just said that they will all join our dynasty. They will change their posts every three or four years. Bringing them out of Nanhai and settling them in Fujian and Guangdong is just the first step. Our dynasty will

In a hundred years, will there be any rebellious Zhizhou?"

After saying this, Feng Jing finally understood. To put it bluntly, he still did not regard those people as officials of the dynasty.

Zhao Xu agreed: "It's just like regulating a river. It's better to block it than to dredge it. Then I'll write a letter to the Central Committee to discuss it."

In that month, the edict was issued: "Every road will teach and review the imperial army, and it will not take more than two hours."

In Guiwei, he ordered Hanlin scholars to listen to Peiyu.

Jiashen moved to Lu Huiqing, a bachelor, and learned about Yanzhou. He moved to Xijing and stayed in Xijing.

Li Daocheng, the transfer envoy on the Jiaozhi Road, invited him to serve as an official. The imperial court regarded Li Daocheng as a pure and loyal man and arrived at Zhutiannan. He also added a bachelor and the four transfer envoys on the Nanhai Road to comfort him.

Li Wensheng moved to Fujian Road as deputy envoy, and Yang Shi moved to Guangzhou.

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September, Liaodong, Zhangzi Island.

The first batch of Song Dynasty goods has been shipped to the island, including Song Dynasty porcelain, gold, silver and bronze wares, various jewelry, pens, inks, paper and inkstones, patent medicines... it is a dazzling array.

The largest items were the silk and cotton fabrics provided by the Qilu Land, Liangzhe Road and Shanghai, as well as the sweaters, woolen cloths, silk quilts, and cotton quilts that were urgently needed in the bitter cold areas of the Liao Kingdom.

Silk quilts are quilts made from silkworm cocoons that have been defatted and stretched until they are fluffy and pressed. They are light and warm, and together with down quilts, they have become the most popular high-end products among Liao people on Zhangzi Island, which has entered autumn.

In addition, there are various spirits. Nanhai's sugar cane wine has become the largest alcoholic product because of its huge price advantage.

Sugarcane wine is actually a drink made by fermenting sugarcane bagasse after sugar extraction. Shen Kuo and Lu Huiqing used it purely as waste.

But the later cocktail-based liquor, rum, was made from this stuff.

Alcohol cannot be banned on Nanhai Road. Not only is it not banned, the government also encourages it.

Because there was too much grain, Lu Huiqing gave the green light to all reprocessed grain products and only tried to consume them as much as possible.

This year, the amount of grain transported to Hebei by sea through private efforts amounted to 800,000 shi.

The local maritime trade in Nanhai has just started, and the expensive goods in the inner workshops cannot be afforded. Many people are inspired by Pu Shan's journey to make a fortune and choose low-priced products.

The Nanhai Road Municipal Shipping Department of the Great Song Dynasty stipulated that for any ship that transported grain to Hebei of the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty agreed to deduct the customs duties from the grain transportation costs carried on the ship.

In other words, if the goods on a ship are worth 10,000 guan, as long as you take grain worth 1,000 guan to Hebei for delivery, the goods on the ship will be exempt from tariffs.

How much grain is this? Three hundred shi.

Three hundred shi of grain will certainly take up a lot of space in the ship's cabin, but it can be accommodated if the goods are properly arranged.

Moreover, this part of the grain, which was only thirty cents per dou in the South China Sea, was worth seventy cents in Hebei, so it was a profitable commodity in itself.

Although the profits are not as good as other products, with the attractive additional attribute of being tax-free, merchants are highly motivated to bring goods to the Song Dynasty.

Many sailors who had just built large ships and were short of funds simply did not bring any goods and just hauled in food.

A port is being built in Jiaozhou Bay, Michigan, which is also the delivery place for grain ships.

The merchants are the most arrogant, and they have already traveled from the South China Sea to Miszhou, so why not walk hundreds of miles to Zhangzi Island? The bonded policy implemented there.

The businessmen who sell wine welcome this policy the most.

Why? Because although you can make a profit by selling wine to the Song people, how can you make as much profit as selling it to the Liao people?

Moreover, if you store your own wine on Zhangzi Island, as long as you don't sell it to the Liao Kingdom, it will be regarded as not leaving the customs.

If it can be consumed on the island, then this will save another amount of customs duties for entering Liaoning!

This policy alone made Zhangzi Island extremely prosperous. Countless merchants from Liao, Song, Korea, and Japan regarded this place as a paradise.

Here you can enjoy fine wine, fine clothes, food, and jewelry at low prices. If you set up your business here, you can do business with four countries at the same time.

Moreover, the financial business on the island is very developed. The Huangsong Bank not only established a customs here, but also established a bank. The prince of the Song Dynasty also established the Hefuxiang Bank branch here.

What makes the Liao people happy is that on this island, silk banknotes and treasure banknotes can be freely exchanged!

When the Liao people entered the Huangsong Bank and took out the silk banknotes that were forcibly issued to them by their own emperor, the Song people actually accepted them! They exchanged them for treasure banknotes and imported money that were common on the island!

Although there is some handling fee, honestly speaking, it is really not much.

Moreover, people in the Song Dynasty were very fair in their transactions. As long as you could get things to the island, you could sell them at a reasonable price.

DaSong Customs will only charge a tariff when the goods leave the island. If you can sell the goods on the island, the tariff can even be paid by the buyer!

Moreover, the commercial arbitration institutions of the Song Dynasty only ensured the fairness of trade, regardless of the nationality of parties A and B.

Even for those straight women who came to the island on rafts who knew nothing, the Song people would ensure their legal gains from trade.

When the female straight people sold wood to the Song people for the first time, they knelt on the ground and cried loudly because the Liao people had misled them. It seemed that the Liao people had given them some messy goods with five big logs before, and the value was not worth it.

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Then he laughed heartily and ate havoc on the island. Finally, he became so stupid that he even sold the raft as wood and could not go back!

The Song people were very authentic and knew that these people were smugglers brought back by the Liao people and would all be beheaded. They sent them to the Goryeo border in their own boats and asked them to return from the south bank of the Yalu River to avoid being captured by the Liao.
Chapter completed!