Northern Song Dynasty Revitalization Strategy

Chapter 481 Mulan boat, like a cloud hanging from the sky
Zhao Huan thought for a long time, and decided to send an envoy to Goryeo to ask the King of Goryeo how he planned to deal with Wanyan Zongwang's attack.

If he can't do it, then follow his own path.

In addition to helping the Song Dynasty, I also want to help Goryeo? !

It's so hard for me!

With the strength in Wang Kai's hands, he was still a bit weak to wrestle with Wanyan Zongwang.

And once the mountains in the west fall into the hands of the Jinren, Goryeo will have no power to retaliate, and will only end up being pushed flat all the way.

He hoped that King Goryeo would not mistake himself and accept the kindness from Da Song.

Zhao Huan didn't ask for much. If King Koryo agreed to his assistance, he asked for the right to permanently garrison troops.

This Koryo country is capricious, and has bet on the major powers successively. If there is no garrison, it will bounce back and forth between Jin and Song according to the nature of the opponent.

For Zhao Huan, this was an unacceptable situation.

Zhao Huan ordered Wei Chengen to directly accept the imperial edict and go to Kaijing, the capital of Goryeo.

Wei Chengen's driver just ran to the gate of Yanjing Mansion, and before he could enter the city to report, he received the imperial edict, and saw the envoy's guard of honor given by Zhao Huan at the post station outside the city.

"The official is really an impatient person." Wei Chengen shook his head and accepted the guard of honor.

Being an envoy of a country is also an opportunity for him. Huang Yanjie's outstanding performance is already in the heart of the emperor, and the next ancestor is almost a certainty.

If I don't behave well, I am afraid that I will have no place in the palace.

He hurriedly wrote a letter by hand, and wrote Zhang Xiaochun's reflection on receiving the emperor's order in the letter, and sent it to the palace, but did not enter the city, so he brought a guard of honor and led a few relatives, and headed towards Jinkou.

The lack of ports in the north was a problem discovered by the Song Dynasty when it transported grain to Pingzhou.

That is, there are too few ports in the northern part of the Song Dynasty, so Jinkou, which was originally a fishing village and the mouth of the Yellow River, was designated as the new port of Shibosi to provide grain and grass for Yanjing.

This is a construction site, but it is the closest to go to sea, Northland to sea.

The three-thousand-stone ship with four masts and twelve sails stopped at the port, waiting for Wei Chengen to board.

This is a new type of sea-going ship built by the shipyard of the Ship Division of Dasong City. In order to cope with the frequent sea trade with Japan, it is a Fu-class sea-going ship specially built.

Not counting the mast and sails, the hull is about one and a half feet high, while the breadth is about three feet, and the length of the hull is about ten feet.

"Maritime ships vary in size. The big one can carry 600 people, while the small one can carry 300 to [-] people." Wei Chengen looked at the ship in front of him and shook his head. The ship in question is only a medium-sized merchant vessel.

The largest sea ships in the Song Dynasty were named Kangji and Tongji.

That's a real big ship!

The two Shenzhou boats are three times as long, wide and tall as the passenger boats, and they are used for practical objects and utensils.

The load capacity of the two Shenzhous, Kangji, is about 360 materials (420 tons), while that of the Tongji is about 1 materials ([-] tons)【Note [-]】.

These two large ships were built during the Daguan period, and they have traveled as far as the Mulanpi Kingdom (that is, the Murabbit Kingdom in West Africa) through sea charts.

Now these two big ships have been smashed and put into the furnace.

When Zhao Ji abolished the Shibu Department, he not only abolished Shibu, but also ships.

Perhaps in Zhao Ji's mind, this big ship with nearly a thousand people can drift on the sea for several years, it is difficult to control.

In the dock in Jinkou, the keel of a huge ship is already being built.

That ship was signed by the officials of Song Dynasty as Mulan Zhou.

The official family took the word Mulan from the heroine Hua Mulan during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Hua Mulan joined the army on behalf of her father, and she was full of loyalty, filial piety and righteousness. She was posthumously named General Xiaolie in the Tang Dynasty.

And Zhao Huan's name is not without purpose.

Although Zhao Mingcheng is a waste, his favorite epigraphy is definitely not a waste.

At least in the hearts of Song people, Mulan is officially identified as a Songzhou native.

The name of the Song Dynasty was Song, and Zhao Kuangyin's Jiedu Envoy of the German Army was stationed in Songzhou.

In the Song Dynasty, there were many Mulan Songs and Mulan Temples, which had a wide foundation among the people, so Zhao Huante named this huge ship under construction the Mulan Boat.

In fact, in Zhao Huan's mind, he wanted to name the ship Liaoning even more.

Taking the homonym is the name of Liaoyang Anding, which is a good start for the current battle between the Jin and Song Dynasties.

But when I think about it carefully, I still want to fart.

The large tonnage of the Liaoning ship and my small sampan should not be compared with that killer weapon.

Looking at the keel that had already been built, Wei Chengen said in a loud voice full of arrogance: "It's as tall as a mountain, floating on the waves, with a brocade sail and its head, subdued by dragons, the boat is like a giant room, and the sail is like a cloud hanging from the sky!"

"The scorpion is several feet long, and a boat can hold a thousand people. On the boat, there are scorpions and markets."

"If you go to the country of Mulan skin, if you don't meet the wind, you will arrive after a few years. It must be a huge boat, so you can't get there. The so-called Mulan boat in this world may not be without big words!"

After Wei Chengen said this with pride, he felt very comfortable.

However, when he thought of Zhao Ji, who had turned into a romantic poet and no longer had any interest in dealing with political affairs, he had a wry smile on his face.

[Check the sea boats, but those with two masts will be caught immediately, and the things contained in them are not foreign things, and they all flow to the south of Lingnan. 】

Zhao Ji had no way to deal with the smuggling, and simply overturned the entire sea trade across the board. As soon as the ban on the sea came out, the entire Jiangnan and Lingnan areas were in a state of chaos.

However, private private ships are still banned repeatedly, and several municipal shipping departments have been abolished, not only did not stop maritime trade.

On the contrary, it brought a certain amount of pressure to Da Song's finances.

But fortunately, the current officials of the Great Song Dynasty can't help reopening the Shibo Department, and also encourage the private production of huge ships, and encourage the people of the Great Song Dynasty to manufacture maritime trade.

After all, the current line, Yanjing Mansion, needs sea ships to transport food and grass.

The Mulan boat was just placed in the dock in Jinkou, and it was said that it would go to sea for a sea trial in six months, but judging by the progress, Wei Chengen reckoned that when he came back from Koryo, he would just be able to catch up with its sea trial.

Wei Chengen boarded a Fu-class ship and headed for Kaijing, Korea.

He looked at the Koryo port that was getting closer and closer, the crowds of people on the port, and the officials of the Koryo Kingdom who greeted him according to the imperial edict of the King of Koryo, with a smile on his face.

He wrote a line on the note.

[On the day when the beauty welcomes the imperial edict, she admires the whole country and cheers and sighs.Cuoer is a small country, and Cuoer is a small country. 】

Wei Chengen closed the zipper, held the festival, and boarded the port from Goryeo. After the grand welcome ceremony, Wei Chengen finally met their Goryeo King in Kaijing.

"The angels came from afar, and the king of Goryeo looked at each other eagerly. It's a blessing to meet you today!" Wang Kai was wearing a mian suit. Up to this moment, had he still not given up the dream of a great country in his heart?
Seeing Wang Kai's nondescript Mian, Wei Chengen almost laughed out loud.

This crown uses twelve multicolored reels, each of which runs through 12 yuan of multicolored jade.

According to the order of Zhu, Bai, Cang, Huang and Xuan, the distance between each piece of jade is one inch, and each piece is twelve inches long.

Wang Kai's crown is a multi-coloured jade, as big as a pigeon.

But the thread that wears the crown is made of white silk thread instead of multicolored reeling.

If it was in the Great Song Dynasty, the bureau of Yuyi would be exiled for three thousand miles to go to Lingnan to build a new Great Song Dynasty.

The group of trolls in the Ministry of Rites will spray everything from the emperor to the Imperial Clothes Bureau to the courtiers, and then take out the edict of Song Taizu, move out the ancestral precepts and tell everyone that the emperor of the Song Dynasty does not wear a crown!
[Worshiping the heaven and earth, the ancestral temple, and the country, etc., wear the Tongtian crown and the crimson gauze robe. 】

Learning the culture of the Central Plains Dynasty is ultimately just learning the appearance, not learning to keep pace with the times.

The complexity of sacrifices can easily lead to extravagance and waste, causing state funds to be wasted in vain and spent where they should not be spent.

Song Dynasty was very rich, but the emperor was not a luxury.

Except for Zhao Ji, of course, he is very extravagant, and the jade seal has ten yuan.

Zhao Ji thought this ancestral precept was very good, so he followed it.

"Emperor Song issued the letter of credence to the King of Koryo." Wei Chengen took out the imperial edict and handed it to the king of Koryo.

Wang Kai pushed the crown away with one hand, held the letter with the other hand and looked at it for a long time, but he felt uncomfortable, so he kicked the eunuch next to him.

It was only when the eunuch grabbed the crown that Wang Kai was able to read the letter.

To open the letter, you have to hold it with both hands to read it easily.

Wang Kai pushed the crown away with one hand, and couldn't take a good look at the letter in his hand.

Wei Chengen remembered a saying, the more you have nothing, the more you want to show off in front of others.

Apparently the same goes for King Goryeo.

Wang Kai finally sighed and said: "The angels have worked hard, but the Song Dynasty came a step too late. The Jin people have already taken the entire line of the Yalu River. The border towns have been lost one after another, and the land is full of smoke."

"Guzheng intends to offer sacrifices to the Heaven and Earth Ancestral Temple and the Sheji, to plead guilty before the ancestors and ancestors, and to beg for peace with the Jinren, so as to have peace for a while."

Only then did Wei Chengen understand why the King of Korea was dressed so formally. He originally planned to offer sacrifices to heaven and earth and negotiate peace with the Jin people.

I also misunderstood the King of Korea.

"I don't know if the King of Korea can survive for three months? In the official letter, there is a strategy to deal with the Jinren." Wei Chengen said.

Zhao Huan naturally thought about how the King of Koryo would be able to hold the country of Koryo alive if the king of Koryo had already collapsed before his envoy arrived.

"Oh?" Wang Kai opened the letter, and the surprise in his eyes became more and more intense.

He took off the crown from his head, ran directly in front of Wei Chengen, and said with a big smile, "The angel has worked hard, and I, Goryeo, are saved!"

"Don't move a stool yet! Show Wei Shishi a seat!" Wang Kai said happily, kicking the eunuch beside him and laughing.

　Note 1: The flagship "Trinidad" of Magellan's first trip around the world has a displacement of 110 tons, and the other three ships are less than 3 tons.A total of 270 crew members are on board.In the Song Dynasty, it was a small Rui-class merchant ship.Compared with the top two Shenzhou thousand-person four-masted ships...

　　
　
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