Chapter 1,437 Achievements

In November of the seventh year of Yuanfeng, reports from all walks of life began to arrive, and the Song Dynasty ushered in the third year of good harvest.

After three years of good harvest, the world will be at peace.

Although there were two floods in Luoshui and the Yellow River this year, and the Yellow River almost burst at Damingfu, it was still contained in the end.

Although Ningxia No. 3 Road has not yet paid agricultural taxes, the income from commercial taxes and industrial and mining taxes is higher than three times the agricultural taxes.

Carloads of gold, silver, copper and iron were gathered at Badan Town, crossed the Yellow River to Lanzhou, and then transferred to Jingzhao and sent to Zhengzhou.

The steel turned into rails in Zhengzhou, extending along the railway roadbed to Luoyang and Bianjing respectively.

Last month, Ali Gu and his entourage were sent to the palace, and Zhao Xu ordered them to be sent to the judicial department to be charged.

After a trial in Dali Temple, Ali Gu's father, son and brothers were found to have murdered their mother, killed their uncles, tortured the envoys of the Song Dynasty, and killed innocent ministers and people, numbering in the thousands.

His subordinate general Qing Yi formed a ghost seal, disobeyed the Song Dynasty, used despicable means to trap and kill Jing Sili, and had a long-term confrontation with the Song Dynasty.

Please order him to be punished as a crime of treason.

The "Times" published numerous articles about this trial, especially Qing Yi's case, and the people's hatred for him was even stronger than Ali Gu's.

According to the "Song Xingtong", the crime of treason should be executed. However, during the execution, the angry people of Kaifeng Prefecture swarmed up, beat away the officials who were escorting and imprisoning, and tied up Ali Gu, Nannazhi, etc.

For those who were dirty, Qing Yi would beat him to death with a knot of ghosts and "gnaw his flesh into pieces until it was invisible".

This was a serious mass incident. Afterwards, the angry people tried to storm the Liao embassy, ​​but were stopped by Yanda, who had just been transferred to Beijing, and more than a hundred troublemakers were arrested.

Zhao Xu did not blame the people. After the situation calmed down, he ordered Yanda to release everyone, but he demoted the chief officer of Kaifeng Palace and Tongfang.

Cai Jing was summoned to Beijing to serve as the prefect of Kaifeng.

However, these news are not as big as the explosive news. Zhao Xiaoyi, the commander of the Puzhou regiment, Su Yi, the son of the Duke of Shu, and Chen Tong, the son of the bachelor Chen Zhaoming, under the orders of His Majesty, sailed out to sea and traveled thousands of miles eastward. They discovered a

"New World"!

The coastline of that continent is no shorter than the coastline of the Song Dynasty. The three children originally wanted to sail around the world, but they walked thousands of miles along the mainland coastline from north to south and couldn't get around it!

The difference from New Songzhou is that there are people of the same species as China on that continent!

From north to south, the local people follow the summer system and the business system respectively!

This article was first exposed by the "Liangzhe Commercial Daily". He Guitou spent 500 yuan to buy the first reporting rights of "The Logbook of the Zuoluo Luo", and happily published overseas reports.

The Bianjing Times was so angry that it was a newspaper overseen by the Imperial Academy, but because it was a government-run newspaper, it was not as flexible in the use of funds as Zheng Xia and others, so it could only reprint other people's news.

Moreover, according to the provisions of the "Press Act", "Bianjing Times" must also pay "Liangzhe Commercial Daily" a "reprinting fee".

A single stone stirred up a thousand waves, the discovery of a new continent, and the thirty-thousand-mile round-trip voyage all turned into clouds before the news of the Xia-Shang rule still existed in the world.

Everyone started talking about it. Chen Tongzhi is only eleven or twelve years old this year. Is his bold conclusion reliable?

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Zongyou, the military governor of Jing Haijun, came to the table together, which once again shocked the academic circles of the Song Dynasty - that country on the eastern continent that implemented the commercial system actually retained astronomical records for thousands of years!

After compilation and translation by the Zuoruanluo science and engineering team and preliminary calculations by the Zhongshan Observatory, these data, at least the part that was sampled and verified, turned out to be detailed and accurate!

This news made Zhao Xu feel a little nervous.

By now, he also has some concepts about science and engineering.

Mathematics is used to guide science and engineering. The most widely used science in mathematics is astronomy. Therefore, in countries with developed astronomy, mathematics will be developed, and the corresponding science and engineering will generally be very developed.

Therefore, it can be logically inferred that the country thousands of miles away in the Eastern Ocean is as astronomically developed as the Song Dynasty, so its mathematics, science and engineering should also be as developed as the Song Dynasty.

Things were bad now. The Song Dynasty had finally defeated Xixia and Qingtang, and was preparing to vigorously arm itself. The next step was the seemingly unshakable Liao Kingdom.

It seems that I have collected only three or five more buckets, so why does another huge opponent appear?

This is what Su Mingrun said, just after one conflict is resolved, another one emerges?

When I read on, damn, is there such a country in the world? This, this, this... this is not so...scientific!

Which country still uses stone tools?!

Zhao Xu said to Chen Zhaoming who rushed to Bianjing City: "Bachelor, what kind of country is like this?"

Chen Zhaoming was also looking through the report on the flat pot and chair: "It can be seen from the lines that Zi Chao and Zi Ming are also baffled by this situation. To know the truth of this issue, I am afraid we have to start with the history of their country

That’s all.”

"But that one doesn't even have bronzes, chariots and horses from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, let alone giant ships. It poses no threat to our Song Dynasty."

After saying that, he frowned and said, "They are too careless to conclude that he is a descendant of the Shang and Zhou dynasties based on just some clues, which is not very reliable."

Zhao Xu thought about the same reason: "I don't care whether they are descendants of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, so that the scholars can know that they discovered huge gold and silver deposits there. In just one month, they mined 160,000 taels of gold and nearly 200 taels of silver."

Thousands of catties.”

Chen Zhaoming didn't care much about this: "If that's the case, why don't the locals use it? What do they use as currency?"

Zhao Xu, who had obtained the first-hand information, began to show off: "I heard that it is a kind of bean called cocoa, which can make a fragrant drink, probably similar to coffee beans. The princes and nobles there use this bean as currency, and

It’s not about gold or silver.”

After speaking, he shook his head and said: "The wonders of the world are really a bit inexplicable."

Chen Zhaoming cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for tolerating the three children. Otherwise, they would have to be exiled to Salmon Island at least for their heinous crime."

Zhao Xu couldn't help laughing: "Three thousand miles of wind and waves can come and go without any hindrance. How far is Salmon Island?"

"Besides, Cao Bin did not bring back so much gold and silver for Taizu when he was pacifying the Southern Tang Dynasty. Even when the Duke of Shu conquered the South China Sea and took Ningxia, he did not bring back so much gold and silver in the first year."

"What kind of sin can't be redeemed with five million pounds of gold and silver? I am not such an unkind king. Hahahaha..."

Chen Zhaoming was not good at words and could only laugh along with him.

Zhao Xu said: "This matter must not be mentioned again in the future. The twenty-sixth regiment was trained according to my order, with Su Yi and Chen Tong as deputy officers, to conduct sea trials on the first steam sea ship of the Imperial Song Dynasty."

"In addition to drawing the Atlantic route and the coastline of the west coast of Dongsheng Prefecture, the children also made 26 technical modifications to the steam engine during the voyage; designed infantry cannons and shrapnel shells; harvested a gold mountain; countless Dongsheng

The state’s crops and livestock; and star catalogs dating back thousands of years.”

"Bachelor, it is said that these two wind belts allow ships to travel continuously between the two places, instead of having to wait for the wind like ships going to India in the sky?"

Chen Zhaoming said: "Yes, but the wind and waves on the ocean are said to be the calmest in summer, and the risk is still quite high in winter."

Zhao Xu took the compass and pointed at Wenhua County on the map, and then moved all the way south to Jinshan County: "I heard from Bian Gu that from here to here, there are a small number of nomadic tribes in the middle, who feed on bison and fish.

After here, it becomes the farming area."

"Here in Wenhua County, the climate is suitable, giant trees are towering into the sky, and the outer sea is blocked by a long island. It is a natural harbor."

"There is another place down there. The terrain is almost the same as Wenhua County. It is also a fjord that blocks the wind, but it is bigger."

"However, there was still no outlet, so I got angry and thought it was a duplicate of Wenhua County, so I named it Jiafu County."

"Next, the imperial court will ask the 21st to personally lead the fleet to inspect. If these two places are suitable for farming, the imperial court will set up troops and ports, build cities and farm fields, and then..."

After that, he pointed from Jiafu County to Yushuo Country: "You can go here to move gold and silver to the Song Dynasty."

Seeing Chen Zhaoming's indifferent look, he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "To say this is an insult to Bachelor Qing. In short, the three children not only have no fault this time, but also made great achievements."

"Especially the chair. I heard that during this voyage, he drew a large number of quick sketches, invented a powerful air-blast anti-personnel bomb, was responsible for communicating with the monarchs and ministers of the Yushu Kingdom using oracle bones, and presided over the translation of astronomical materials. As expected, he inherited

The outstanding talents of the bachelor and the magistrate!"

"There are very few prodigies like this in the Song Dynasty. I just tried the child prodigy this year and took a few, but those few are incomparable to the chair and flat pot."
Chapter completed!