Song Gexing

Chapter 271 War on Three Fronts

Of course Zhao Fang understands that it is not good to make enemies everywhere, but this time people are knocking on his door. This is not called making enemies. If you are weak, it is making enemies.

Don't talk about loving peace. Peace is built on the basis of mutual respect for each other. If people put their noses in the face, it's a fart for peace.

"I know what uncle is worried about, but do you see any request for food supplies in Zhang Dun's memorial?"

Zhao Fang understood that the most important thing in a war was logistics. Yu Zuo, as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, naturally also knew that what he was worried about was that the Song Dynasty's supplies could not keep up with consumption.

After all, except for Tamna Island, the rest of Jeju Province's territory has just been developed, including those areas of Japan.

Although Nagasaki has been an important port of the Japanese country for a long time, the Japanese government has not invested in its construction. Moreover, the Japanese country in this era had very little overseas trade, and only had trade with the Song Dynasty and Goryeo.

Therefore, after being assigned to the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty had to be rebuilt. In addition, the population there was not large.

Except for a small number of free people, the only ones left are the fishermen who originally made a living from the sea, the people who migrated from Ryukyu during the Song Dynasty, and the Ainu who migrated here.

The total population is less than 50, including the old, young, women and children. The population in Ryukyu is not large, so the [-] soldiers Zhang Dun can muster is the limit.

But according to the current rules of the Song Dynasty, ten people support one soldier, and 150 soldiers plus those left behind. Without [-] million people, it is not enough to support them.

Liu Yisun's side also has this problem. His side is even poorer, which is why he can only send [-] troops this time. The population of Sakhalin Island and the lower reaches of Heilongjiang is not large, and coupled with the undeveloped state, it is simply not enough to support too many people. Multiple people.

Hearing Zhao Fang's words, Yu Zuo realized that Zhang Dun's memorial only mentioned naval reinforcements and asked the court to allocate a batch of thunderbolts, but no more requests were made.

There's something wrong, he thought blankly, and suddenly his eyes widened and he said in shock: "Fight to feed war! Zhang Zihou, is he really brave?"

"Why don't you dare? If you are not of my race, your heart must be different. The Huns can do it, the Turks can do it, those people who were in the Five Husties chaos in China can do it, and the Khitan people still do it. Why can't I, the Song Dynasty, do it?"

Zhao Fang became unusually stern, staring at his uncle and speaking sentence by sentence.

Yu Zuo had read books about sages since he was a child. If his own nephew had not become the emperor, it would have been difficult for him to enter the Privy Council.

Hearing this, he was dumbfounded and looked at Zhao Fang blankly. After a long while, he hesitated and said: "But...but we are not barbarians!"

Zhao Fang took a deep breath and said earnestly: "Uncle, you need to change your concept. To govern the world, you must listen to the saints, but how can you listen to him in war? War still depends on military strategists."

"Okay, this is my nephew. No matter what others do, I must support him. Forget it."

Yu Zuo, who struggled for a while, went against his original intention with difficulty, nodded and said: "The officials must be prepared, if the courtiers find out about this, not only Zhang Zihou will be impeached, but the officials themselves will also be scolded .”

Yes, he just said the word curse. The tradition of scholar-bureaucrats in the Northern Song Dynasty has not changed due to the civil and military reforms. Scolding the emperor is like scolding a child, and they still dare to speak.

And Zhao Fang had no choice. As long as he didn't want to be a foolish king, he could only bear it. Who allowed him to have a father like that standing there and be regarded as an example of a benevolent king.

Zhao Zhen is now very leisurely. He has not forgotten to give birth to a child while having grandchildren, and has given Zhao Fang two younger sisters and a younger brother.

Moreover, the younger brother was born to Empress Cao. This completely changed history. Empress Cao actually had a child, which made Zhao Fang stupid at first.Fortunately, he was already the emperor, otherwise this child would be his legitimate son. Without the reason to threaten his throne, Zhao Fang would not be able to dote on his fourth brother.

A few days later, the Cabinet and the Privy Council jointly submitted a memorial to cancel this year's annual leave. The court would provide subsidies to officials at all levels, and Zhao Fang agreed.

Su Shi, a member of the Ministry of Household Affairs, also proposed that the Agricultural Bank of China issue a batch of national bonds for war needs. This was the first time that bonds appeared in people's sight.

No one knew that he could do this before. In fact, this was not because Su Shi had the knowledge of a prophet, nor was it taught to him by Zhao Fang.

Among Zhao Fang's four European beauties, Sophia from Italy casually mentioned it when she introduced the customs and customs of her side when she was teaching the court ladies.

After Su Shi found out about this, he, who had been working in the banking industry for several years, keenly discovered the benefits and shamelessly asked Zhao Fang to talk to Sophia.

If it were any other emperor, he would never dare to do this, but Zhao Fang had a good relationship with him, and he knew that Zhao Fang's temperament did not mind his foreign man seeing his concubines, so he dared to mention it.

As a result, he took out many European financial methods from Sophia's mouth, and was inspired to come up with this bond.

It can be seen from this that Su Shi really has an extraordinary imagination about economics and finance. You must know that there are no banks in Europe now.

There are two versions of the earliest bank in Europe. One is the bank founded in Venice in 1174, and the other is the bank founded in Florence in 1272.

As for the Bank of Venice, it was not established until 1587, but no matter what kind, there was no bank at this time, and it would take at least 100 years before there were banks in Europe.

But how did Sophia have this knowledge? This goes back to the Roman Empire. There were similar institutions in the Roman Empire before and after BC.

The main business is lending, exchanging different currencies, and trust business, and clear legal provisions are required for management and supervision of this business.

Therefore, there are historical reasons why the modern banking model appeared in Europe. China is different from them in this aspect.

In ancient China, banks only had currency exchange business, not even lending. Instead, pawnshops operated the lending business.

As for trusts, they are completely blank. This is a financial business unique to Europeans. As an Italian noble, Sofia naturally understands these knowledge points.

Although he doesn't know the details, he has seen the business in general, so he was inspired by what he said to Su Shi.

On New Year's Eve in the sixth year of Xining, the lights in Datong were brightly lit, and shouts of murder broke through the sky. No one expected that Di Qing would choose to attack Datong tonight.

The Song and Liao Dynasties were originally fighting in the Bazhou area. The Song army in Yunnei Prefecture had been unable to defend. Facing the Song territory in the direction of Datong, Zhending Mansion and Taiyuan Mansion were also strictly ordered to defend.

The Song army seemed to be fighting for victory on the Nanjing Road of the Liao Kingdom, and had great plans to capture Xijin Mansion. Gradually, Datong became tired.

In addition, tonight is New Year's Eve, and the people of Liao are also celebrating the New Year, but Di Qing, who has died young, refuses to let anyone calm down. In the snowy place outside the city, he actually ambush the troops early and succeeded in a sneak attack.

(End of this chapter)