This prince is so sinister

Chapter 230 The First City That Never Sleeps
Xixia has ceased to exist and became a state in the Song Dynasty. It was simply named Xiazhou temporarily according to Zhao Zhi, but it still needs to be digested slowly.Fortunately, because of Li Yuanhao's lewdness and immorality, and Song Dynasty has plenty of money, Xixia is still relatively stable.

To be precise, it was a money-losing business to incorporate Xixia into the Song Dynasty, because Xixia was too poor to be compared with the Song Dynasty, but at the same time, Xixia's strategic position could not be bought with money.

And Xixia still has war horses, which can slowly develop in a coordinated manner in the future.

As for Tubo, because of the capture of [-] cavalry from the Liao Kingdom, the death of Emperor Yelu Longxu of the Liao Kingdom, and the inclusion of the Western Xia into the Great Song Dynasty, the few thorns that were originally still couldn't help being honest.

In Dali in the southwest, because of the headache caused by the killing of monks by the Song Dynasty, it is obviously impossible for the Song Dynasty to let the monks go. Even the monks in Liao, Xixia, and Tubo have been killed. How is it possible? Will the monks in Dali be spared?
It seems that the only remaining enemy of the Song Dynasty is the Liao Kingdom in the north, and the Tanyuan Alliance has already existed in name only because of Zhao Zhi's "Serving the Country with Loyalty".

Tomorrow, the battle between Song and Liao is inevitable, and it is a decisive battle between the two countries. No matter which side loses, it will never be the Tanyuan alliance. disaster.

But let the Liao Kingdom surrender to the Song Dynasty?Obviously impossible.

Let the Song Dynasty continue to submit to the Liao Kingdom and pay the Liao Kingdom annual coins?It would have been possible if it was before, but the Great Song under General Zhao Zhi obviously would never surrender to any country again.

So the whole world seems to have calmed down, but at the same time it is still raging, and a new storm is brewing.

Zhao Zhi also knows that everything has changed, and the history of later generations will not have much reference value. At the same time, he is constantly releasing the chazi of the Song Dynasty to detect all the news of the neighboring countries.

So Zhao Zhi got up early every day and went directly to work at the No. [-] guard. Every time, he was guarded by three thousand cavalry. But it is absolutely impossible.

And going to work in the guard during the day, of course, is mainly responsible for opening up ideas for the craftsmen of the Song Dynasty. There are more than one kind of gunpowder, including picric acid, nitroglycerin, smokeless gunpowder, thunder mercury, nitrocellulose, and double-based explosives.

Picric acid is a synthetic yellow crystal, which is a high explosive that can be used to load sky shells.

And by dry distillation of saltpeter, nitric acid can be produced, and cotton soaked in nitric acid can cause an explosion and make percussion medicine.

But it doesn't need Zhao Zhi to study it at all. It only needs Zhao Zhi to open up an idea, and the craftsmen of Song Dynasty seem to have opened a window, and they can easily develop it.

As a result, from the second day after Zhao Zhi returned to Bianjing City, the No. [-] Guardhouse in the East of Bianjing City began to roar continuously, and even a little closer could feel the ground shaking.

Gunpowder and explosives are Da Song's artifacts, and Zhao Zhizi will not let them go. As long as he develops various explosives, Da Song will be invincible. No matter how many cavalry come, he can be blown away.

At the same time, on the other hand, it is obvious that the circulation of coins in Song Dynasty has become inconvenient, because Song Dynasty is so rich!At least Tingyulou still maintains a daily account of 200 million coins.

It's not enough to describe how much money you make every day. Such a daily income of millions of dollars is all metal, whether it's gold or silver.

Therefore, on the first day of work, Zhao Zhi not only arranged for the production of gunpowder, but also needed to develop papermaking technology as soon as possible. It was necessary to produce paper that was difficult to imitate, so that it could be used to issue banknotes.

Jiaozi in history, the first issue of real banknotes, was Liu Mo, a generation of virtuous queens. Zhao Zhizi couldn't let the banknotes of Song Dynasty disappear just because of his appearance.

And once the paper that is difficult to imitate is developed, the banknotes of the Song Dynasty can be issued. Isn't it much more convenient to print money with paper than real gold and silver?Moreover, the banknotes issued by himself can definitely win the trust of the people and merchants of the Song Dynasty, just because he is the general Zhao Zhi.

Then gunpowder, banknotes, and at the same time, the [-] cavalry captives of the Liao Kingdom began to pave roads to Bianjing every day under the command of Bao Zheng. All the roads were paved with cement square bricks. It was completely free labor. Just feed it.

At the same time, countless workshops and factories in the outer suburbs of Bianjing City also began to rise. There are arsenal workshops under the Imperial City Guard. Of course, the main products are military uniforms. Production.

The Great Song Dynasty has not only completely changed the sky, but the entire Great Song Dynasty is also undergoing earth-shaking changes every day.

Zhao Zhi went to work in the No. [-] guard at two o'clock and one line every day, and went home early or late to rest at night, enjoying the real blessing of Qiren, and never went to any other place.

Occasionally, he would sneak into the palace at night and get into the bed of the Empress Dowager Liu Mo. Since there is only one door between the rear house and the harem, if I don’t climb into the bed of the Empress Dowager Liu Mo once in the middle of the night, I’m sorry for that door?

In the blink of an eye, it turned out to be a month.

Except for the day when he was named a general, Zhao Zhi seemed to have disappeared and never showed up again.

But the sudden activity of Tingyu Tower in Bianjing City made all the officials and merchants in Bianjing City, and even the merchants and officials in the whole world know that the Great General might really be about to create an unprecedented prosperity of the Song Dynasty!The true prosperity far surpassed the strong man and the prosperous Tang Dynasty!

The disappearance of the great general was not because some foolish king went to play, but because he was constantly busy with some things every day, which can be seen from the fact that a new product appeared every few days in Tingyu Tower.

As for the glass, mirror, soap, Jiuliangye, including women's beauty products, everything must be related to the general, but the general is a real genius.

Govern the country?There is no need for the general to rule in person at all, only the empress dowager Liu Mo, the general's woman, can subdue all the officials in Bianjing City and the officials of the whole world.

At the same time, Fan Zhongyan was also preparing for a reform, and he was going to give the officials of the Song Dynasty a slash.

But even if Ouyang Xiu and Fu Bi were both arrested, almost no official in Bianjing City was idle, including the governor of Kaifeng who was planning to retire, and they all had to help Bao Zheng direct the [-] soldiers. The captives paved the way for the city of Bianjing.

On the contrary, in comparison, it seems that Zhao Zhi has become the most idle person. Of course, he is not idle at all, but he has no time to appear in front of the officials, and he still enjoys the blessings of Qi people almost every night. They will also stay overnight in the palace.

Sometimes, once it was too late, he simply slept in the No. [-] guard, because once a certain goal was determined, Zhao Zhi would not be able to settle down until he completed it.That is the first electric light that made Da Song!The next step is to make Bianjing City the first city that never sleeps and amazes the whole world!

As a result, I personally participated in it every day for more than a month, and finally made two major achievements on this day, and at the same time received a secret report from the Liao Kingdom.

(End of this chapter)