Plane Merchant's Dream of a Powerful Country

The fourth target plane, Imperial Calendar 14) year.

Calculated according to the AD time of the main plane, this time is AD 2(9), which is the end of the 23rd century and is only one step away from the 24th century. The reason why it is called the Imperial Calendar is because the ruler of the earth is a super A powerful country—the Great Song Empire. Its territory includes the entire Asia, Oceania, and America of the main plane. The vast Pacific Ocean is its inner lake, and there are its garrisons all over Europe, and Africa is its colony and vassal state.

Due to the differences in planes, the continents here are named Songzhou (Asia), Tangzhou (Americas), Yanzhou (Oceania), Heizhou (Africa), Baizhou (Europe), and Xuezhou (Antarctica).Similar to the main plane, after the founding of Zhao Kuangyin in the Song Dynasty, there was not much change until Song Zhezong: first, Song Shenzong Zhao Xu's reform was first, but unfortunately he acted too hastily and failed, and ended in failure. In Qingzhou (the main plane Qingyang, Gansu Province), the Xia army was defeated and occupied two thousand miles of land in Xixia.However, due to the disastrous defeat in the battle of Yongle City, the effort to destroy Xia fell short. Later, Zhao Xu's son, Zhao Xu, ascended the throne at the age of nine, and the queen mother was in power.

But when it came to Song Huizong, there were major differences with the main plane.Song Huizong in this world didn't like calligraphy and painting, but he was fond of gunpowder and firearms.Because of his special hobbies, the value orientation of the whole folk has gradually undergone major changes. The shortcut to promotion is no longer poetry and painting skills, but mechanical inventions and strange obscene skills.

Therefore, the world has lost the "Song style" calligraphy in thin gold style, lost the historical relics of "Zhencao Thousand Characters" and "Linshu Lanting Silk Book"; A series of inventions and creations such as long-range movable steel-cast artillery, 40-piece flying dragon rocket carriage (simple rocket launcher in the bamboo version of the cannon), etc.As these advanced weapons hundreds of years earlier than the main plane appeared on the stage of history one after another, the originally extremely powerful golden cavalry disappeared and fell into a flock of moving lambs and shooting targets.

As the Song Empire, the national level and the ruling regime paid more and more attention to engineering talents and "craftsman" groups, the national defense strength and technological level of the Song Dynasty showed a leapfrog development trend.The "Tiangongyuan" and "Tianjifang", which were established adhering to the will of the royal family, are constantly innovating to cater to the emperor's tastes. As a result, the range of rifles is getting longer and longer, and the power of bullets is getting stronger and stronger.Until one day, the quantitative change produced a qualitative change. A master craftsman washed his hands by the stream to trigger inspiration. In the 12th year of Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, he proposed a new gun manufacturing process of "flowing water method". The gun production per unit time of "Tianjifang" was about Since then, the problem of ammunition production capacity and ammunition supply that has plagued the Song Dynasty has been completely resolved.The battle between the Song army and the Jin army brought about a fundamental change in the way of warfare brought about by the equipment revolution, and the cavalry has since completely withdrawn from the stage of history.

After 4 years, the army of the Song Dynasty not only completely recovered the sixteen prefectures of Youyun, but also took advantage of the victory to pursue it. It also encouraged the folk pioneers to distribute guns and ammunition, and carried out the "expansion movement" of the territory with ten thousand mu of land and ten years of tax exemption as the propaganda slogan policy. ".During this period, the shipbuilding industry of the Song Dynasty benefited from the increasing development of technology, with more advanced load capacity and weapons, increasingly dense shipping routes, and increasingly distant voyages, opening up one after another "oasis" on the sea.

After Song Huizong's death, his son Song Qinzong came to the throne.Influenced by his father since he was a child, Song Qinzong was extremely obsessed with mechanical craftsmen, encouraged new inventions and creations, and dismissed many conservative officials.In addition, compared with his father's governance model of recovering lost land, slightly expanding the territory, being content with keeping a business, and getting rich when he is small.Song Qinzong advocated offense even more. During his 51 years in power, the territory of the Song Dynasty occupied Siberia in the north and the coastal countries of Songzhou (Asia) in the south.Not only were they asked to accept their age as ministers, but they also seized a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry and shipped them back to China.

In order to become an emperor through the ages and to accommodate the territory of Haina, Emperor Qinzong of Song Dynasty promulgated the "Marquis of Tuohai Order": as long as the newly discovered islands and lands by the people have not been registered in the Song Dynasty, they can be developed and occupied by themselves, and the measured land will be placed on the land. If you hand over half of the country, you can permanently own the other half, and pay taxes every year according to the area and islands handed over, and enjoy different levels of princely and uncle-level treatment.When they return to their ancestors and return to their hometowns, local officials need to greet them with salutes according to their ranks.Stimulated by this, the private expedition fleet is increasing day by day.In the late period of Emperor Qinzong of the Song Dynasty, someone finally discovered the Tangzhou (America) continent in this world, and since then the era of great navigation has come.

Perhaps it is the love of God, the five emperors since Song Huizong have always had ambitions, breaking the law of large numbers in history that "wealth cannot last three generations".After the death of the fifth emperor, the entire Great Song Dynasty has experienced 173 years of prosperity, with a prosperous folk culture, a vast territory, and a strong military force.Become the sole overlord of the earth for hundreds of years to come.However, due to the absence of rivals and the lack of wars, the technological level of the Song Dynasty has become more and more sophisticated in mechanical manufacturing, but the catalytic steam engine as a modern industry has not appeared for a long time.

833 Imperial Calendar (1693 AD).

Along with the Luocha people (white people of Baizhou), who had been ignored by the Song Dynasty, they took the lead in inventing the steam engine, and secretly applied it to wooden warships.Then, after 20 years of accumulating strength, they finally defeated the Song Dynasty Navy in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, still reveling in the leisurely days of the era of invincible sailing warships.

After experiencing the tragic lessons of the destruction of several squadrons, the Great Song Dynasty finally understood the source of the enemy's strength, figured out the power essence of fast warships, and immediately relied on its hundreds of years of knowledge and technology accumulation in the mechanical field to quickly catch up.In just three months, the first wooden sailing warship propelled by a steam engine was imitated, then the first iron-clad warship a year later, and then the first iron-clad warship...

War is the cruelest human activity and the best driving force for the development of human science and technology.After six years of naval battles in the Western Hemisphere, the Song Empire finally defeated the coalition forces of Britain and France by sea and land (Germany was far from being unified at this time), and then dismembered Britain first and divided it into four. It took away most of the engineering talents and technicians, set up a permanent garrison, and completely destroyed Britain's war potential.For France, it is also divided into three, encouraging the independence of the lords and kings of Baizhou (Europe), making the countries on the Baizhou territory more and more fragmented, the territory is getting smaller and smaller, and no strong military power can be produced anymore.

860 Imperial Calendar (AD 17).

The first long-distance practical railway appeared in the Great Song Empire, and then the steam age of the fourth target plane came completely.But this is not the main plane after all, and the trajectory of historical development will eventually be different.Maybe it's the difference in the age of dinosaurs. The earth's underground fossil energy resources such as coal reserves are very small, only about 5% of the main plane, and oil is even more pitiful, less than 1%.The resulting problem is that the duration of the steam era has been greatly extended and the era of internal combustion engines has fallen behind.Since most of the oil is buried deep underground, the cost of exploitation is desperately high. Therefore, the ruling class and business alliances of the Song Empire gave full play to the naked nature of capitalism to squeeze out the last remaining value of commodities. (Coal) The above made a big fuss. Coalized oil and coalized gas were invented and used one after another. For hundreds of years, they ruled the family life of hundreds of millions of people.

About 300 years later, coal resources were basically exhausted, and the Song Empire had to start using oil resources deep underground. However, due to the difficulty in mining technology, large oil reservoirs, and too few self-flowing wells, ordinary people could not afford gasoline.Therefore, the people of Song Dynasty, who inherited hundreds of years of invention and creation genes in their bones, began to look in other directions.

As mentioned earlier, electricity was not invented until 1990 due to the absence of opponents, wars, and threats, and the lack of sufficient research motivation in the military.Then it faced a global shortage of coal energy, so the promotion was very slow, not to mention electronic computers, mass-energy equations, nuclear physics and other related disciplines.

Entering the Great Song Dynasty in the 21st century, the researchers of the Imperial Academy of Sciences considered the current situation of world energy shortage, the non-renewable nature of oil, and the favorable conditions of fewer people and more land (limited medical conditions, the entire Great Song Empire with territories spread over three continents has only 5 million people), trying to artificially hybridize, graft, and cultivate a new variety of "energy crop" - awn sorghum.

"Mans sorghum" is used as a daily staple food, and it tastes slightly worse.However, as an "energy crop", there are many advantages: it grows rapidly and pungently, and can grow everywhere from subtropical to temperate regions, and during the growth period, no chemical fertilizers and pesticides can be applied; the combustion is complete, and the crops are relatively dry at harvest. How much carbon dioxide is absorbed from the atmosphere during the growth process, and how much carbon dioxide is released during combustion, without increasing the content of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; the cost is extremely low, and the energy it generates is equivalent to 6 times that of biodiesel made from rapeseed, and the cost is less than 14. The yield of rapeseed is high, with a yield of up to 82 tons per hectare, which is equivalent to an average annual harvest of 50 tons of oil per hectare.

Of course, in addition to awn sorghum, the fourth target plane also cultivated more than a dozen other "energy crops", and gradually spread them in Songzhou (Asia), Tangzhou (Americas), Yanzhou (Oceania) and Heizhou (Africa). Planted in some areas.However, although "energy crops" are very good, for example, combustion will not produce sulfide, and will not produce acid rain pollution.However, due to the limitation of unit carbon content, its performance on military equipment is limited, and there is still a big gap compared with fuels (especially aviation fuels) that rely on petroleum configurations.

About one year later (the beginning of the 1rd century), when the oil resources were almost fully exploited, the Song Empire, which controlled more than 23% of the world's "energy crops", forced countries to accept the "bio-energy" industrial chain through a carrot-and-stick policy. , I have retained the last small amount of oil and coal resources in the world to ensure the "generational difference" and performance advantages of military weapons.

At the end of the 23rd century, the fourth target plane has used bio-energy for nearly 70 years, and has gradually improved electrical equipment, but washing machines, microwave ovens, computers, and televisions have not yet been invented, and entertainment is still mainly concentrated in movies, newspapers, etc. .

So it took Wang Fan a little time. After learning all this, he immediately drove the "Qin Shihuang" to the capital of the Song Dynasty, and then held a long meeting and negotiation, signed a package of goods sales contracts and exchanged oil for "energy crops" such as awns sorghum. Plan (to solve the problem of livestock feed on the main plane and the first target plane), and then he gave the order to cross the plane again with satisfaction.