Lord Moyu was forced to open

The expansion of territory means increased expenditures for the court, although expanding territory is a good thing.

However, the larger the territory, the greater the cost of governance for the imperial court.

Especially the recently expanded territories, except for the Southeast Asian side, the Turkic side is all grassland, and the infrastructure alone will cost a lot of silver.

However, these are all necessary expenditures. Without a certain amount of investment in infrastructure and governance costs, these places would not be firmly controlled by the Song Dynasty.

Just like the Yunzhou County before, it had been unstable for more than 50 years because the imperial court did not invest a lot in infrastructure. It was not until the arrival of Zhao Jun that Yunzhou County was completely taken control of his own hands.

However, the Song Dynasty court did not feel sorry for this expenditure at all.

why?

Because Europe’s war reparations have arrived!

1.32 billion taels of silver. Even the whole of Europe cannot come up with such a huge amount of money at once, so it can only be paid in installments.

The Song Dynasty also agreed to their payment model, but added a 3% interest rate.

Although the European countries were extremely angry, they had no choice but to accept it because they could not pay the full amount.

The first amount of silver as a down payment was naturally quite a lot, a total of 500 million taels.

The rest of Europe will pay in installments over eight years, which means that in the next eight years, Europe will have to pay more than 1 million taels of compensation to the Song Dynasty every year.

With the 500 million taels of silver, the Song Dynasty generously invested it directly in infrastructure.

It's not just investment in the management of newly acquired land, but also investment in infrastructure across the country.

Roads, infrastructure, fixed post stations, railway construction, etc., etc.

Even this year, the scientific research funding of the Bingzhang Bureau and Tiangong Institute has tripled!
The consequence of this series of investments was that the infrastructure of the entire Song Dynasty was rapidly improved. Official roads in various places were built according to the standards of cement roads, and in some places trains could even be built to the county.

Of course, the first two counties to be built were Subei and Sunan, as these two counties were really rich.

Every three years, the county governor would go to the capital to report on his work. In other counties, there would be one county governor with a group of subordinate prefects.

But it’s different in southern and northern Jiangsu, where there are both prefects and county magistrates!

I asked why they brought some county magistrates here?
The county governors of southern and northern Jiangsu could only twitch their lips and answer: "Maybe the two or three prefectures in your family are not as rich as one county of others.

Especially when this was said, other places immediately became dissatisfied and asked them to show their fiscal revenue last year.

Then, when the incomes of the prefectures and counties in southern and northern Jiangsu were revealed, everyone fell silent.

After that, no one mentioned it again.

With a large amount of capital investment, new cities were built in the Turkic steppe, and railways began to extend deep into the Turkic steppe, extending the control of the Song Dynasty inward.

As for Luzon and Chengluo, in addition to the entry of the Song Dynasty's imperial court, due to their geographical advantages, they have become the Song Dynasty's frontier bases for heading to the New World.

Excellent ports were developed one after another, and Song ships sailed from here to the New World.

In the New World, as more and more Song people came, the territory they occupied became larger and larger.

Finally, the Song army's power in the New World was completely feared by the Indians.

And fear brings war.

So a war broke out in the New World, which had been peaceful for several years!
At the beginning of the war, the Song army had the upper hand with its weapon advantage, and even the occupied territory was more than doubled.

However, this is the enemy's base camp after all, and the number of Song troops is limited. Gradually, as the Song army's stockpiled weapons are gradually exhausted, the Song army can only rely on its elite combat power to enter a stalemate with the opponent's human wave tactics.

The fighting spirit of the Indians really shocked the Song army. Generally speaking, with the offensive power of the Song army's weapons, after the enemy is defeated, the enemy will quickly lose the will to resist and will be easily defeated.

It has been like this for years. But these Indians are not like that. Even though the Song army has built many fortifications in its territory, these Indians continue to attack as if they are not afraid of death.

Such fighting spirit made the Song Dynasty, which had long been immersed in the relaxed fighting atmosphere brought about by the advantage of weapons, gradually feel a bit like it was when it first got rich, and gradually increased its fighting spirit.

The two sides initially used firearms to suppress the Song army, but later entered a stalemate by using cold weapons in hand-to-hand combat.

During this stalemate, even though the Song army suffered far fewer casualties than the Indians, it was still not worth it and a loss for the Song court.

Nowadays, the cost of training a soldier for the Song army is far more expensive than some firearms.

The news of insufficient weapons and personnel produced by the New World base was quickly reported back to the Song Dynasty.

Then, under the instruction of Zhao Jun, the Song Dynasty Cavalry Regiment was organized into a large army of 50,000 people. The Song Dynasty Firearms Force formed a full four armies of 200,000 people and began to go to the New World in batches to support the battle.

At the same time, various weapons and equipment were shipped to the New World.

Not only that, the Song Dynasty also accelerated the delivery of various equipment that would make the New World self-sufficient in weapons.

For a time, the route from the Song Dynasty to the New World became busy, and this also made European merchants notice the existence of the New World.

After all, it is impossible to fill Europe with such a large-scale deployment of troops.

After receiving the news, European countries immediately excitedly sent out their own exploration teams.

Soon they found the location of the New World by following the path of the Song Dynasty.

Due to the signing of the armistice agreement before the Song Dynasty, Europe lost half of its colonies in East Asia, and domestic income dropped sharply.

How exciting it is to discover a new world at this moment.

Even though they did not dare to compete with the Song Dynasty, the New World was so big, and the Song Dynasty was on the eastern side of the New World, so they still dared to occupy colonies in the western part of the New World.

So European countries immediately began to form fleets and headed westwards to the New World, trying to establish a new colony for their own countries there.

The Song Dynasty court had been collecting intelligence on Europa's movements, so they were discovered as soon as they set off.

Originally, Zhao Jun was worried that they would choose to colonize the north or south of the New World. Although he would be able to seize it in the end, it would not be as good as owning it from the beginning.

It took the Song Dynasty several years to gain a rough idea of ​​the resources of the New World.

Among them, the various natural resources and minerals in the northern and southern continents of the New World are the richest.

The East Continent is second, and the West Continent is the worst.

However, since the Song Dynasty could reach the East Continent faster, the Song army decided to establish a foothold in the East Continent first.

Once we have gained a firm foothold, we will slowly expand to the northern and southern continents.

However, what Zhao Jun did not expect was that the European countries, because of their fear of the Song Dynasty, actually ran to the farthest place from them, that is, the Western Continent.

This is really a coincidence!

After learning that their destination was the Western Continent, Zhao Jun felt relieved and ignored them.

In today's New World, local forces are resisting strongly, and the Song Dynasty does not have much power to send there. The Song Dynasty is also building the Exile Continent, so there is not much power that can be allocated to the New World. Since Europa wants to go, let them go. It will be a good opportunity for them to share some of the pressure on their side in the Western Continent.

So, with the indulgence of the Song Dynasty, the power of most of the world's forces began to move towards the New World.

At this time, the Indians did not know that they were about to be attacked from all sides.

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(End of this chapter)