The Jin army besieged the city, and the Song emperor’s daughter died

"If it's just to change the raw materials in Song Academy of Sciences, it's simple. The most important thing is the requirement of large-scale production."

After Shen Qiong finished speaking, he looked at Zhao Fujin and motioned for her to continue.

Zhao Fujin picked up the statistics from the Military Registration Room of the Privy Council: "There are currently 36 registered soldiers. Even if the number of soldiers is reduced, the first batch can only be reduced to 6 people. If you use the knife too harshly, you will cause trouble. If you want to The Song Academy of Sciences will definitely not be able to achieve the goal of fully weaponizing the military within three years.”

"So the officials want to make firearms in Zhuxian Town?" Li Gang seemed to understand what Zhao Fujin meant.

Zhao Fujin nodded: "Mainly here to make firearms."

Li Bangyan asked: "Are we going to move the ordnance depots of the North and South Houses to Zhuxian Town?"

"They don't need it!" Shen Qiong waved his hand: "There are specialties in the art industry, so they will continue to make cold weapons."

"Isn't it necessary to fully implement firearms?" Li Gang was puzzled.

"If you take too big a step, you will lose your temper. You have to do it step by step." As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Fujin blushed: "I'm going... I'm being vulgar. I hope they don't understand."

As expected, no one except Li Bangyan, the prodigal prime minister, seemed to understand this sentence that was well known to future generations. Only Li Bangyan secretly glanced at Zhao Fujin with a smirk on his face, but he did not expect that Zhao Fujin also looked at him.

Their eyes met, and Li Bangyan's evil smile froze for a moment: "Ahem... What the officials mean is that even if firearms are to be fully developed, it will only be three years later. Ordnance will still have to be made in these three years."

"Then even if Zhuxian Town is rebuilt and the place is available, where are the craftsmen who make firearms?" Li Gang asked deeply.

Zhao Fujin showed the military registration book again: "There are so many people in Zhuxian Town..."

"Heh..." Li Gang smiled: "Guanjia, do you know how many years of accumulation a craftsman's craftsmanship requires..."

"Bring it up!" Zhao Fujin shouted before Li Gang could finish his words.

Not long after, two strange things were carried into the Chui Gong Hall.

One of them looked familiar, like the spinning wheel commonly seen on Liangzhe Road, but it was much smaller than the spinning wheel and had no place to hold the spindle.

Zhao Fujin walked down the imperial steps and came to the machine. He took the cotton batting in Mo Ming's hand and placed it on a five-inch long, ribbed wooden pole. He held the spinning wheel hand in his other hand and shook it. After five turns, the loose cotton wool in his hand was twisted into a five-inch long cotton rope.

"I don't have any skills, so isn't this the end of it?"

Everyone in Chui Gong Hall gathered around and looked at the cotton rope in Zhao Fujin's hand and asked, "What is this?"

Shen Qiong didn't need to explain this question. Han Shizhong smiled and said, "If I guessed correctly, it should be the fuse of a thunderbolt?"

Everyone was stunned, and Shen Qiong corrected: "That's not all. There are still two processes left, one is soaking, the other is drying, and then it can be considered a fuse."

"What is this machine used for?" Li Bangyan asked curiously: "It looks like a bed with a chisel hanging on it?"

Zhao Fujin smiled and looked at Mo Ming: "Come and introduce me to the gentlemen."

Mo Ming took the order, summoned an assistant, and slowly pushed an iron plate connected to the track on the side of the "bed". There were eighteen protrusions with the same spacing on the iron plate, two protrusions on each side. There is a piece of iron of average size placed on it.

Mo Ming himself began to shake the wheel hand on the other side. The wheel hand was connected to the chisel hanging in the sky through a simple mechanical device. The chisel rotated rapidly as the wheel hand rotated. The iron piece below retreated to the bottom of the chisel. Ming slowly released the pedal under his feet, dropped the chisel, and made a hole in the iron piece.

The assistant on the other side continued to push, and the second iron piece was drilled...

Yue Fei, who has served as deputy envoy to the Privy Council, guessed from the side: "This iron piece with holes should be the last piece of iron that penetrates the fuse and finally completely seals the thunderbolt bomb?"

Shen Qiong nodded: "What Privy Yue said is correct. In the past, to fuse and load thunderbolt bombs, the hollow iron ball had to be drilled manually, filled with gunpowder, and then inserted into the fuse to seal it. Because it was done by hand, the fuse was The lengths and holes dug are different, and it is extremely troublesome to seal them. These two devices made by Chief Mo during this period perfectly solved this problem."

"This is still secondary." Zhao Fujin explained: "With these two devices, even an inexperienced person can simply get started and become proficient, and then he can work for the court, produce various parts of the firearm, and finally process them in a unified manner. This operation It is much faster than the current hand-rubbed firearms in the Song Academy of Sciences. This is called assembly line production."

Many of the princes in the palace seem to understand but not understand, but when they see the officials being so certain, they are convinced.

"What's the name of this device?" Li Bangyan asked, patting the device next to him.

"Machine Tool 1.0" Zhao Fujin said with a smile: "After the scientists of the Academy of Sciences of the Song Dynasty came up with a power source to replace human power, there will be 2.0, 3.0 and even 10.0. From now on, in our Song Dynasty, machines will make machines, and the manpower used will be Significant reduction.”

The princes in the palace looked happy, thinking that in those days the Taoist emperors believed in Taoism and believed in some mysterious powers, but for decades they had not developed any power that could see the light, but now...

It’s really incomparable.

However, after the brief joy, Li Gang thought of a new question: "Even if the work is simple, if all the people in Zhuxian Town come to do the work, how much will the wages be?"

After Li Gang asked this question, everyone turned their attention to Cai Ji, the commander of the Bank and Money Department.

Cai Wei hurriedly came out of the queue, with a grimace on his face: "I wonder how much the officials want?"

Zhao Fujin glared at him: "Cai Chi, it's not me who wants money, it's Da Song who wants money. Am I doing this for my own enjoyment?"

Cai Chi quickly changed his words: "I'm talking nonsense, I'm talking nonsense, how much money does the court need for Zhuxian Town?"

Zhao Fujin walked back to the imperial steps, sat back on the dragon chair, and flipped through the brochure beside him: "According to the drawings reported by the Academy of Song Dynasty, 38 blast furnaces, 27 large and small workshops, and [-] large and small warehouses need to be built... With the Zhuxian Town closure project, city walls must be built, isolation walls in each workshop area must be built, and isolation zones between the workshop area and the living area..."

The more Cai Ji listened, the more he felt dizzy, and cold sweat dripped from his forehead.

What a huge expense this is!

"These are just civil engineering matters. To rebuild Zhuxian Town, some original residential houses will have to be demolished. Mr. Li, do we have a policy for demolition subsidies?"

Li Gang was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Is the official talking about exchanging land for money?"

Zhao Fujin nodded: "I mean, did your ancestors have a similar situation?"

Li Gang thought for a moment and replied: "In the seventh year of Zhenzong's Dazhong Xiangfu, there was a case where each household had to pay sixteen guan for the land. In the first year of Renzong's Tiansheng, there was also a case. If I remember correctly, each household was 170 yuan. Guan. Judging from the current situation, even in Zhuxian Town, each household has at least [-] Guan."

Cai Ji couldn't help wiping his sweat.

Those civil works just now, how many houses have to be demolished before they can be completely built.

"Well... the money for the land is one thing, and the other is to get the people in Zhuxian Town to work voluntarily. The wages can't be less than those for farming, right?" Zhao Fujin pointed to Kaifeng Prefect Sima Pu: "Sima Mr. Xian, please tell us about the monthly income of farmers in Zhuxian Town."

Sima Pu came out: "According to statistics from Kaifeng Prefecture during this period, each farmer in Zhuxian Town can earn 1 yuan a month, not counting taxes and grain." Zhao Fujin nodded: "That is to say, one person If a household of four people all work, the monthly salary cannot be less than five guan. If [-] people work, the monthly salary must be [-] guan..."

According to Zhao Fujin's comparison of the purchasing power of ordinary money at this time to later generations, ordinary money is equivalent to 700 yuan in later generations, and a monthly salary of 500 yuan, which is [-] million...

thump!
Cai Wei immediately knelt down and said, "For an official, 60 guan a month is [-] guan a year. Even if the money department sells iron, it won't make that much money."

Li Gang also bowed and said: "The officials gave Liao Sui coins only 30 yuan a year, of which the cash money was only 60 yuan. Counting only wages, Zhuxian Town already had [-] yuan. Not to mention the money department, even from the money department. It costs a lot of money to subsidize the state treasury, and this does not include the cost of land and construction. It is important to weaponize the entire military, but people's livelihood is also important to the officials!"

Once the accounts were calculated, even Li Bangyan, who had always followed the government's lead, had to stand up: "The officials, what Prime Minister Li said is true, the cost is indeed huge."

The censor Zhongcheng Li Ruoshui, who had been silent for a long time, also stood up at this time: "Guan family, now that the Liao Kingdom has been destroyed and the Jin Kingdom has collapsed, Xixia has nothing to worry about, so why bother with the military?"

"Pah!" Zhao Fujin slapped the back of the chair hard, stood up and his beautiful eyes gleamed: "You said I'm being militaristic?"

Li Ruoshui was more staunch than Li Gang, and he actually raised his head and straightened his chest, looking straight at Zhao Fujin.

Zhao Fujin was about to get angry, but he remembered what he had just said and said that he was innocent, and then he thought that this was how court affairs should be discussed, so he suppressed his anger and said, "Oh, I haven't finished speaking yet, and you are all so impatient? Han Shizhong!”

"I'm here!" Han Shizhong came out!

"Tell them about the Ministry of War's plan!"

Han Shizhong cupped his hands and said, "Please be patient, sir. This money will not only come from the Bank and Coin Department and the treasury, our Ministry of War must also spread it out."

"What do you mean? Your Ministry of War doesn't get its money from the treasury?" Li Gang asked.

Han Shizhong cleared his throat: "For the great plan of Zhuxian Town, the Ministry of War has decided to reduce the number of soldiers by 6 people. The military salary of these 6 people is far greater than the expenses of Zhuxian Town."

When everyone heard this, they calmed down.

After the entire army is equipped with firearms, not to mention reducing the number of 16 soldiers, but also reducing the number of soldiers by [-]. Not only will the combat effectiveness of the Song Army not be weakened, but it will be greatly improved.

Thinking about it this way, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it.

"How are you settling accounts every day?" Zhao Fujin sneered: "Streamlining [-] soldiers not only saves food and salary, but also saves arrows, crossbows and other weapons in the North and South Ordnance Institute. Isn't that right? Another sum of money?”

There was a rustling discussion among the people.

That’s right, not only did you not spend a lot of money this time, you also saved a lot of money!

"Wait a minute." Li Bangyan suddenly came out: "For officials, the arrows, crossbows, double-twisted cannons, bed crossbows, etc. from the North and South Ordnance Institute cannot be spared."

Everyone looked at Li Bangyan as if he were a fool. They all wanted to use weapons as weapons. Why do they need these things?
"Sold to Gaochang Uyghurs, Xixia, Dali, Tubo tribes, and Jiaozhi. His Highness King Kang is building sea ships in Hangzhou. In the future, he can also sell them to Fusang and Korea. Dear Sirs, you can't save much money by saving money. We still need to engage in trade!”

Zhao Fujin was amused by Li Bangyan: "You are not engaged in trade, you are determined to become a global arms dealer."

From Zhao Fujin's expression, Li Bangyan judged that the official was praising him. He was about to explain his plan in detail, but was interrupted by Zhao Fujin: "We will discuss this in private."

Such dark things cannot be said even in Umrah meetings.

Selling arms?
Why don't you start trouble first?

"Guan family, have you ever thought about reducing the number of soldiers by 6? These [-] are not a small number. Will they..." Sima Pu stopped.

Zhao Fujin has certainly considered this issue: "It doesn't matter, I'll find a new job for them."

"Oh? The official said so clearly."

"Go to Huining Mansion, dig mines, collect ginseng, catch minks, build city towers... there will be a lot of life."

"But what if they don't want to?" Sima Pu felt that not only did these downsized soldiers not want to go, they might also explode on the spot.

Zhao Fujin smiled and said: "Since you are a soldier, you have to decide whether you want to or not."

"But the officials are already streamlining their military personnel?" Sima Pu still didn't understand.

Zhao Fujin sighed softly: "I'm just streamlining, but I didn't say that I would reduce their military status."

"If their military status is no longer required, do they still have to pay them? Then this money will not be saved at all." There was another commotion among the people.

Zhao Fujin only felt a headache. It felt like he was giving a class to a group of students who knew little about it. He pinched his eyebrows and waited until they had finished talking. Then Zhao Fujin slowly said: "All the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are familiar with it, right?"

The core of the government-military system is the integration of farmers and soldiers, which is manifested in the court granting land, tax exemption, farming on weekdays, and accompanying the army in wartime.

At the Xiaochao meeting, everyone is familiar with history books, how could they not know this.

"Officials, the land in Huining Mansion is not suitable for farming..."

"Shut up!" Zhao Fujin really couldn't bear it anymore: "Listen to what I have to say and then discuss it!"

Seeing Zhao Fujin's anger, the hall finally became quiet.

"The Tang Dynasty can play as government soldiers, why can't I play as merchant soldiers? They go to dig, and the court buys them at a price. They go to pick ginseng and catch minks. The court allows them to bring goods into the country and reduce commercial taxes. Don't you know that Haidong Qing , sable hair, and wild ginseng, which were hard to come by for wealthy people in the Liao Dynasty. What? With such a large population and so many wealthy families in the Song Dynasty, we can’t support this market? The surplus profit cannot afford to support six people. Thousands of merchants? Not to mention that there is a sable road leading to the Semirechye area from the Jin Kingdom. The Jin people have been walking for decades, can't we just walk?"

The army engages in the third industry!
Armed business group chaebol!

The trade route from East Asia to Central Asia!

Can I save money?
"Merchant system?" Everyone was stunned. In the history books they had read, there had never been such a method in the past dynasties!

It can be said to be an unprecedented move, how can everyone not be surprised!

"What if they... after they get rich, they can support themselves with troops?" Li Gang still considered the situation carefully and saw the flaws at a glance.

"Oh, gentlemen, you must always remember one sentence. In this world, money is the most useful but most useless thing. In the face of power and firepower, no amount of money is worth a penny. As long as Zhuxian Town If they get up, what if they have millions of troops?"

"Yes, let alone putting them under the eyes of the second prince. With the friendship between the second prince and our official family, can you not keep an eye on them for our official family?" Li Bangyan raised his head confidently, but said to Zhao Fujin looked at him coldly: "Li Bangyan?" (End of this chapter)