Chapter 1694: Grand Troop Training

In life, the old man was particularly clean and self-sufficient. When Jia Changchao was fighting with Wu Yu, he wanted to recruit Zhang Fangping for support, and promised to promote him to participate in politics after he became successful. Zhang Fangping angrily scolded the envoy: "What you say is not up to me!"

Even if it was just the request of the prime minister, even when Renzong summoned him to secretly visit the court to "dangerously flatter" him and lure him with the promise of "great use", Zhang Fangping also felt that his personality was humiliated and sternly criticized the emperor: "violating people's selfishness,

I won't do anything to force people into danger and fight against them!"

In Su You's eyes, the old man, like Zhao Bian, was virtuous, talented and upright, and could truly be called a scholar-official.

As for me, I am only a first-rate politician and a second-rate literati. When it comes to scholar-bureaucrats, I can be regarded as supernumerary at best.

He couldn't do what Duke Zhang and Zhao were like, so he admired and admired him even more.

The old man also specifically asked the court not to give him a posthumous title in his thank you note. This was very rare in the feudal dynasty.

However, Su Che thought it was not appropriate and reported to the imperial court. Zhang Fangping had been an official for several dynasties and had made great contributions. He published the General Constitution and the Zanchen Ji. The imperial court still had to explain the system that should be discussed.

In the end, the imperial court gave Sikong a posthumous title of "Wen Ding".

In June, Guimao, Shangshu Zuopushe and his servant Lu Dafang were appointed as the envoys of the southern suburbs. Hu Zongyu, the newly appointed minister of the Ministry of Rites, was appointed as the envoy of etiquette. Su Shi, a bachelor of Longtuge, was appointed as the envoy of the official ceremony.

Quan Zhi knew that Han Zongdao of Kaifeng Prefecture was the envoy of Qiao Daodun.

He called the governor of Hedong to become an official, and the official Wen Yanbo of the state of Lu became an official; the prince's young master, the official of Xuanhui Nanyuan, was appointed to Feng Jing; the prince's young master was appointed to Han Wei; the envoy of Jixi Guan was appointed to the official, and Su Song of Zhongshan Institute of Technology was still promoted to accompany him.

Suburban sacrifice.

The preparations started half a year in advance. Zhao Xu is getting married this year. Such a big event needs to be told to the ancestors, so the suburban ceremony will be particularly grand.

The four routes were transferred to Su You, and the four routes in Hebei Province have sufficient ammunition. Please hold a two-month military exercise with Wen'anwa in order to explore a new amphibious combat mode.

Nine motor ships, five gunboats, and four steamers. These are nine trains of locomotives. Each can pull a ten-knot canoe. Each ship has fifty sergeants. Including the motor ship itself, one train can carry 550 new ships.

army, as well as a large amount of baggage and munitions.

Judging from the hydrology of several rivers in the north, the Luanhe and Sanggan rivers can only use this route, while the Liaohe River can only use Meishan type battleships.

Liu Weijian, the new supervisor of the Fourth Route Army, is relatively well controlled by the military. In addition, according to Su You's memorial, the funds were raised from the surplus of the Fourth Route Army this year, so it doesn't matter to Gao Taotao, and the memorial is accurate.

The military mobilization in Hebei caused uneasiness among the Liao people, and several banknotes fluctuated again.

However, this time it was the merchants who brought trouble to themselves, because soon the machinery from the Song Dynasty to aid the Liao Kingdom began to arrive in Liaoyang in a steady stream, and several mining bases began to be exploited.

The first phase is the ore dressing plant and coking plant. To use Da Song's steel plant to make steel, a large amount of concentrate powder reserves and coking coal reserves are required.

A steel plant with a daily output of 100,000 kilograms of steel cannot cease fire. It is a tiger that devours these two things. Therefore, it must be built in advance and raw materials prepared.

Two large factories were established in Whisling Ridge, Liaoyang Prefecture, and the exchange rate of banknotes changed again. Wang Jing and Zhao Zhongqian once again made a fortune.

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This military exercise is also a skills training. The Soviet Union's requirement for the troops is that each person can fire 24 rounds of ammunition, that is, three magazines, two thunder mines, and each gunner of each type must have at least five rounds of live ammunition.

At the same time, the military will use this exercise to select four categories of elites with excellent tactics, excellent command, excellent style, and excellent culture, and promote and reward them.

The exercise simulates actual combat. The fleet will assemble at Wen'an Wa, then go out to sea along the boundary river, use offshore navigation, and go south to Yanshan.

This is a simulated exegesis. In Chaogu's strategic plan for the Liao Dynasty, the drill was to cross the sea and reach several river mouths in the Liao Kingdom. The main purpose was to discover problems.

Afterwards, the troops will enter Cangzhou from the Wudi River in Yanshan, and simulate attacks on Nanpi, Hejian, and Raoyang along the way.

Then it entered the Hutuo River in Raoyang and marched north to Puyin and Boye.

The Fourth Route Economic and Strategy Department will prepare a large number of horses and baggage in Boye. Afterwards, the new army will land ashore and march with the fleet by land and water. They will return to Jian Dingzhou, Baozhou, Xiongzhou, Bazhou, and Tianjin Wei respectively, simulating the occupation of important hubs of the Liao Kingdom.

After that, the surrounding states and counties were divided.

Because the Economic Strategy Department and the Transportation Department needed to coordinate for this matter, the headquarters was set up in Daming Mansion in advance.

All states and counties in Hebei have telegraphs through which they can monitor the progress of the exercise and issue instructions. The military and administrative departments are in one place for easy coordination.

In order not to overly stimulate the Liao people, Su You named this exercise a "big military training."

In Jiachen, a call came from Xiongzhou. The troops had assembled and boarded the ship, and the vigorous "Hebei Army Training" began.

On Bingwu, an edict was issued to promote the great development of water conservancy in Hebei Province. Wu Anzhi, the envoy of the Water Supervisor of the Capital City, and Li Wei, the Water Supervisor of the Northern Capital City, were given three-grade uniforms and were re-appointed at the end of their term.

Li Nangong, the transfer envoy from Shaanxi Province, was assigned to Zhilong Tuge and was informed of Yan'an Prefecture. Fan Chunchuan died after his mother died.

On Yi Mao, Wang Cun, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was ordered to go out to Hangzhou. When Wang Cun made his speech, he wrote: "If you are a minister and a party, you cannot be honest for a long time. If you don't pay attention to it, you will abuse good people. This is how the Eastern Han Dynasty censored."

"In the Qingli period, Han Qi, Fu Bi, Fan Zhongyan, and Ouyang Xiu were considered to be friends. Lai Renzong was a sage, so I am not confused. If there is anyone who talks about this again, I would like your Majesty to investigate."

On this day, an edict was issued to discuss the suburban sacrificial ceremony.

Gu Lin, Fan Zuyu and other eight people discussed it and asked them to jointly offer sacrifices to heaven and earth.

Fan Chunli, Peng Ruli, Zeng Zhao, Kong Wuzhong and other 22 people discussed that the southern suburbs would jointly offer sacrifices to heaven and earth, but they were not found in the scriptures;

Fan Bailu also said that there is no ritual of offering sacrifices to the ground in the circle, which was abolished by the late emperor and cannot be changed lightly based on the ancient scriptures.

In the ninth month, Renchen, the Empress Dowager said to her assistant ministers: "It is appropriate for people to worship in the suburbs according to Renzong, the story of the late emperor."

Lu Dafang said: "When the emperor comes to the throne, he should see the heaven and the earth in person. However, the Confucian scholars have proposed that they want to be in the southern suburbs. If there is no imperial land to show the throne, I am afraid it will not be safe."

The Empress Dowager "is what she said".

On the day of Wuxu, he summoned his assistant ministers to watch the valley in Houyuan.

At this grand ceremony in Nanjiao, Han Wei and Wen Yanbo both excused themselves from Nanjiao because of their old age.

The court also approved it.

Feng Jing was also seventy-one years old. When he became an official, the imperial court initially planned to inform Daming Prefecture. Feng Jing declined because Su You was there. He also said that he had land and ancestral graves in Mi County, Zhengzhou, and requested to stay in Zhengzhou instead.

Mi County is a large coal mine base in Zhengzhou. The coal there has extremely low sulfur content and is very suitable for steelmaking. It was one of the early industrial cities in the Song Dynasty and was already very prosperous.

Nowadays, the train from Zhengzhou to Bianjing is convenient. The old handsome guy is the only "Bachelor of Zhaoling" still alive today, and he is also the famous "Da Sanyuan". The imperial court gave him special treatment and ordered Peng Ruli, the Minister of Rites, to go and greet him in person.

Su Song also came, but his main purpose was to see Chuer.

Because the suburban ceremony is a big ceremony, Feng Jing and Su Song had to go to Beijing three months in advance to prepare for the ceremony.

Today's royal palace is also very different from before. Every step has a view. In addition to the sightseeing area, there is also an agricultural experience area.

A farm covering an area of ​​ten acres was developed in the harem, following the pattern of Mou Zhuangzi in the Su family. It also has mulberry trees, fish ponds, rice and wheat, chickens, ducks, cattle, horses, alpacas...

Every year, the Empress Dowager and her maids would come here to kiss silkworms, and Zhao Xu would also come to plow the fields.

Su Xiaomei particularly likes this place. In her words, it is located in the center of the largest city in the world and can be far away from plant pollution.

This place had been repaired when Zhao Xu ascended to the throne, but this was Feng Jing's first time here.

After admiring the garden-style architecture and waterside pavilions in the inner palace, Feng Jing's eyes couldn't help but shine at the small farmhouse that came into view after bypassing a red wall.

The handsome old man immediately complimented Zhao Xu: "Our dynasty is booming in industry, and your majesty still attaches great importance to farming and mulberry. He is not greedy for big profits and builds up the country's foundation. He is a clear, wise and wise king."

Zhao Xu said: "Situ once said that industry and economy are actually an amplifier, which can double the old capital and triple the old profits."

"But since it is an amplifier, it will not only amplify the good and not the bad, but amplify both the good and the bad together."

"Farming is the foundation of the country, and this cannot be shaken. Nowadays, 70% of the Ding population in our country are still engaged in farming, so allowing them to be stable means stabilizing the country."

"In the future, the population of various industries may change with the prosperity of industry and commerce, but to ensure that the country's capital is sufficient, how many people will be in the country, how much food will be consumed, how much land will be needed, and what crops will be cultivated, the output will be

How much, etc., is something the court must have in mind."

"What the imperial court has to do is to encourage as few people as possible to grow as much food as possible. Only on this basis can we obtain a population that can be separated from the land. Only this population can promote industry and commerce."

"This order cannot be reversed. The Liao Kingdom is now greedy for the great prosperity of industry and commerce in the Song Dynasty, so it wants to imitate and build industrial bases. In fact, it is trying to run fast before it can take the lead, and it will eventually fall."

"Because their agricultural foundation cannot support an industrial base that produces 100,000 kilograms of steel per day, nor can they free up so many people to engage in mining and metallurgy."
Chapter completed!