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Chapter 904 Zhao Xu: The great uncle of the Liao emperor is almost a saint!

Renshen in September of the second year of Yuanyou (23)

Accompanied by Shen Kuo, Zhao Xu came to the tea grinding workshop in Bianjing City, a bureau dedicated to the manufacture of military equipment, to inspect the first water-powered Taimu car.

To be honest, there is not much innovation in this hydraulic car.

Almost all the technologies used are off-the-shelf.

Most of them come from Su Song’s Yuanyou Hunyun Bureau.

The structure is also very simple. The entire structure is made of wood, and its working principle is clear at a glance - it uses water power to drive a pair of wooden wheels to rotate, and the wheels then drive four rollers to rotate. The cotton yarn passes between the two rollers and is then stretched by another pair of rollers. Finally, the cotton yarn passes through a device installed under the machine and is wound onto the rotating wooden shaft.

In terms of work efficiency, it is several times faster than a manual lathe.

The only problem is because of the silt in the Yellow River.

The Bian River is actually a hanging river, so this machine can only be used in the Cao River, Huimin River, Jinshui River and other river basins.

Moreover, it may be necessary to build artificial dams near the corresponding water-powered spinning mills to provide power.

Taking into account the current capricious climate characteristics, Zhao Xu just doesn't want the city of Bianjing to be turned into an ocean by floods at any time.

Therefore, the factory of hydraulic Taimu car can only be built in the downstream area far away from Bian Jing.

At the same time, it could not go too far away from Bianjing to avoid losing control.

Therefore, there are only a few places to choose for construction.

But no matter what, the appearance of the hydraulic chariot means that Zhao Xu is one step closer to what he wants.

Therefore, he rewarded generously the craftsmen who were directly responsible for the research and development of the hydraulic chariot.

The two selected civil officials in charge of this project, who were in charge of the military equipment manufacturing bureau, were exempted from being demoted in Beijing and were promoted to new positions on the spot!

Selected people will be sent to Beijing as officials in seconds!

The several master craftsmen who were responsible for the specific technology and construction were all given official positions - although they were all technical officials.

The rest of the relevant participants all received a big gift package from Emperor Zhao - each of them was awarded 50 strings of coins, exempted from taxes for that year, and at the same time, one of their sons was allowed to become an apprentice in a military equipment manufacturing bureau.

This is Zhao Xu's current working style.

Learned from modern times.

Want to turn your employees into wolves?

It’s very simple - pay enough money, provide adequate treatment, and at the same time offer full options to outstanding talents and project managers.

This is how many startup company bosses Zhao Xu knows in modern times do things.

As long as the money is enough, the treatment will be adequate.

The kind where you can earn as much bonus in one year as others earn in seven or eight years.

What is 996?
If on this basis, employees know that as long as their company's projects are successful.

Once you have this on your resume, you will be snapped up by people wherever you go, and your annual salary can easily start from a million.

Then, employees would wish to eat and live in the company.

Of course, the only companies that can do this are high-tech companies, and the bosses are tech geeks.

Those who just see the trend and want to join the market to get a piece of the pie.

It is neither possible nor achievable to do such a thing.

They only repeat "struggle" and "effort" to their employees ten thousand times, but never talk about the treatment.

This is just hooliganism!
Fortunately, as an emperor, what Zhao Xu had the most was the printed Jiaozi and the official positions he promoted at will.

What he lacks is talent!

Talents who understand technology, management, and coordination!
Those engineers and bureaucrats who cannot be selected through the imperial examinations now!

Therefore, as long as the bureaucrats in the military equipment manufacturing bureau make achievements, they will be promoted at a rocket speed.

Like today, there have been several times when people were selected and promoted to Beijing officials on the spot.

This is called a thousand-dollar horse bone.

It’s a political tactic that has been used for more than a thousand years, but it’s very effective.

The King of Chu had such a thin waist that many people died of starvation in the palace.

Since the emperor likes to study things, naturally there will be scholars and officials who will start to care about, learn and research them.

After finishing the inspection of tea milling business, Zhao Xu, under the escort of Yulongzhi, was about to leave for Kaifeng Prefecture by carriage.

At this time, Zhao Xu heard a familiar voice coming from outside the human wall composed of hundreds of imperial guards in the streets outside Chamowu.

"Everyone!"

It’s Shi Deyi!

Zhao Xu stopped in front of the imperial carriage.

Shi Deyi, holding a token, walked through a passage made clear by the imperial guards and quickly came to Zhao Xu. He bowed and said, "Everyone, I want to report the letter from the Liao ruler received by Sifang and the memorial sent back by Lin Sheren..."

Zhao Xu narrowed his eyes as he listened.

"The letter from the Liao ruler? Lin Xi's memorial?"

Calculating the time, it has been less than ten days since the Liao Lord's Tianan Festival. So...

Was there any progress in the negotiations between Song and Liao on Tianan Day, or in the following two days?
"Lin Xi is really efficient!"

Then Shi Deyi took out two pieces of Yuan Dynasty paper and presented them to Zhao Xu: "This is a copy of the imperial letter and memorial copied by the Dongmen Division."

Zhao Xu hummed and reached out to take it.

He naturally knew where the original letters from Yelu Hongji and Lin Xi's memorials had gone.

Chongwenyuan!
This is the ancestral system. All original documents from the state and memorials from ministers must be archived in the Chongwenyuan.

So that future generations will have a trace to trace and an example to follow.

But...

Accidents often happen in Chongwenyuan.

For example, all the documents previously kept in the Ren Temple were burned in the fire.

Many documents from the Puyi period were also damaged by rats.

Also, when Wang Anshi dismounted from his horse at the Xuande Gate, some imperial edicts stored in the Ren Temple in Chongwenyuan, which allowed the prime ministers to dismount in front of the Zuo and Zuo Zhaoqing Gates, also disappeared inexplicably.

In short, everything is possible in Chongwenyuan.

It is for this reason that since the first year of Yuanyou, every Secretary-General has been appointed by Zhao Xu himself.

At the same time, the eunuchs in Chongwenyuan who were responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of documents were all reliable people personally selected by Zhao Xu through Liu Weijian and others.

Why...

It is a natural guarantee that when he needs it, he can find a copy of the [Ancestors' Virtue] from it.

Moreover, this [virtuous voice of ancestors] must be able to endorse his actions and policies.

It can't be said that the scholars and officials can touch the Chongwenyuan, but Emperor Zhao can't, right?

After reading Yelu Hongji's letter, Zhao Xu narrowed his eyes and looked back at the tea grinding office.

Yelu Hongji actually proposed in his letter to the State Council that the islands near the coast of Goryeo be sold to the Song Dynasty for three million strings of Jiaozi?
At the same time, he also proposed that as long as the Song Dynasty agreed, he would give Zhao Xu, his nephew, the emperor's grandson, the things that the Goryeo people once did in the Song Dynasty - allowing the Song Dynasty's shopping malls and free entry and exit of Goryeo ports - as a gift.

After reading it, Zhao Xu had only one thought in his mind.

"Granduncle!"

"You are my great uncle!"

In Zhao Xu's eyes, the islands that Yelu Hongji wanted to sell were comparable to the conditions he promised to allow Song merchant ships to freely enter and exit Goryeo ports.

Apparently, those islands are the giveaway!

why?
Because this is free trade!

Zhao Xu has been thinking about free trade for a long time!

The condition that Yelu Hongji agreed to was equivalent to opening the entire Goryeo market to the Song Dynasty!

“I never thought that the great uncle of the Liao emperor is also an advocate of free trade!”

"It seems that I really wronged my great uncle..." Zhao Xu sighed in his heart.

Who said that the Liao ruler was crude and unlearned from the ways of saints?

The thoughts of the Liao emperor's great uncle were obviously very open-minded!

This is almost approaching sainthood!
Zhao Xu decided that from today on, Yelu Yanxi would be his half-brother!
In the future, he will definitely love his younger brother Emperor Yanxi as much as he loves his dear Thirteenth Brother!
He promised that he would never let Emperor Yanxi's brother have the same ending as he did in history.

At least, as long as his good brother turns against his enemies and surrenders with courtesy, Zhao Xu guarantees that the Yelu family will not lose the courtesy of the two kings and three Ke.

only……

Zhao Xu held the Yuanshu paper in his hand, and he suddenly remembered.

It seems that the Liao people actually control part of Japan now?

Is there a chance that the Liao people will agree to open the Japanese ports under their control to Song merchant ships?

Free trade, of course, must be free to the end!
It can't be that only Goryeo is free, right?

If this is the case, then could the Imperial Uncle agree to allow the Song Dynasty's merchants to freely enter and exit the ports under the jurisdiction of Liaoyang Prefecture of the Liao Dynasty?

Thinking of this, Zhao Xu suddenly smiled.

Because he knew that Goryeo and Japan might be able to negotiate.

However, the Liao people would definitely guard the ports under the jurisdiction of Liaoyang Prefecture strictly against the Song Dynasty.

Because the Liao people were afraid that the Song Dynasty and the Bohai Jurchens would collude with each other!

In order to prevent the Song Dynasty, Bohai and Jurchen were powerful.

The Liao people established strict border defenses along the coast, which was known as the Great Wall of the Sea!
So, no matter how short of money the Liao people are, they will never agree to it.

but……

Just give it a try, it’s free, what if he agrees?

(End of this chapter)