Chapter 659: The Army Becomes Pirates
The actual ruler of the island country of Wa was given the title of "Shogun", which shows that the island country of Wa had expansionist ambitions since ancient times. They lived on an island in the Pacific Ocean and named themselves the Shogun. Who did they want to conquer?
Naturally, it is the surrounding countries. Everyone knows Sima Yi’s intention.
The island nation of Japan saw the Ryukyu Kingdom as small and easy to bully, and often sent warships to rob, harass and demand payment. The King of Ryukyu could not bear the humiliation, so he became a vassal state of the Central Plains dynasty and sought asylum.
The island nation of Japan fears the Central Plains dynasty, and although it has restrained itself somewhat, it still takes advantage of a beautiful woman from time to time, like a gangster seeing a beautiful woman.
Especially when the Song Dynasty was weak and unable to deal with the northern grassland empire, it was very rampant. It even ignored the elder status of the Celestial Empire and forgot that it was still a vassal state. It ran to the coastal areas of Shandong, Liangzhe and Fujian to rob, not to mention touching things in Ryukyu and Goryeo.
Now, the New Song Kingdom has become stronger, with powerful South China Sea Fleet and East China Sea Fleet, and has also taken Ryukyu Kingdom as one of its own. After the disguised pirates of the island country of Japan were beheaded one after another like extermination, they dared not attack Ryukyu Kingdom.
However, their nature did not change, and they extended their claws to Goryeo.
Goryeo was close to the north of the earth. Apart from making money by trading with the island country of Wa, it almost always traded with the New Song. The ships traveling on the sea were most likely loaded with rare goods from the New Song, which were extremely valuable. If you robbed a ship of goods, you would become rich immediately.
Therefore, many warriors in the island country of Japan yearned to do this adventurous business. More and more pirates came to the islands around the Korean Peninsula and even went deep into the peninsula to plunder. Small groups gathered into large teams, and gradually became powerful and dared to compete with the official army of Goryeo.
As it happens, Fujiwara no Nice's general's mansion is planning to intensify the robbery in Goryeo.
After these vicious bandits were beaten and fled by the Shenwei Army Navy of the New Song Dynasty, they found that the only area where they could make money was the coast of Goryeo, and they had to strengthen the disguised pirates there in order to reap greater rewards.
The general personally summoned his younger brothers from all over the country to give them a lecture, requiring them to send people and ships to join the pirate ranks, and after robbing the silver, they would share the profits according to their contribution.
Fujiwara encouraged them and said confidently: We may not be able to defeat the New Song Dynasty, but we are more than capable of defeating Goryeo. Besides, Goryeo has been ravaged by the grassland empire for many years and has long been left with only half its life.
These local tyrants thought that they should ask the emperor for an imperial edict, so that they could legitimately recruit civilian ships and draftees and mobilize the whole country to cross the sea for robbery. However, the Shogun said lightly: This matter is simple, he can just go and give a notice to the emperor.
This was the era when the island nation of Japan entered the era when the shogunate held real power. In his eyes, the emperor was just a decoration, and he had the final say on what to do.
In the imperial capital of the New Song Dynasty, Emperor Zhao Feiyan is offering sacrifices to his ancestors and heaven and welcoming the New Year according to the procedures formulated by the Imperial Astronomical Observatory.
After more than a decade of hard work, the New Song Dynasty has become rich and strong. Its strength has further increased after it recently recovered Ryukyu Road and Yunnan Road.
The Shenwei Army attacked the Chagatai Khanate, with the potential to defeat the steppe empire in one fell swoop.
Zhao Feiyan was delighted to see that the country she ruled was becoming a great nation. The ministers in the hall were very respectful to her, their faces were filled with joy, and their voices were much louder. With her enthusiastic blessings, the new Song Dynasty crossed the year 1248 and welcomed the first day of the year 1249.
After the young woman finished praying for blessings and welcoming the new year, she could not wait to arrange for Hua Yue to supervise the country, and took Shunzhidi to the new town.
At this time, the palace in Zhongdu Town had already become bustling.
Ma Linger received the news that Zhao Yulin and his group were coming, and she and Wu Yuqi came with the children. Not only that, even Zhao Yulin's father, the old scholar, came with his mother, second mother, and youngest mother.
Rapeseed flowers are in bloom in Zhongdu Town. The air is filled with the fragrance of rapeseed flowers, and people are walking everywhere with joy.
Zhao Yulin and Chen Xian were tinkering with power generation equipment in Hongmeng Valley and found that the craftsmen were really talented and could make dry batteries out of carbon rods, which was a great progress. However, the insulation of batteries and generators was a big problem. Although it was just a simple insulating paper or insulating paint in later generations, it was a huge problem here.
Chen Xian told him that after reading the secret manuscript compiled by Madam Yangjin, he found that the waste heat of the steam engine could be used to generate electricity. This was also recorded in Advisor Zhu's suicide note, and the masters had been thinking about it.
Zhao Yulin kept nodding his head, and smiled when he saw the craftsmen using black gold to make thick tungsten filaments to create a light bulb as big as a washbasin. He thought that Yang Jin and Zhu Congwen must have only one sentence to describe them.
Seeing his expression, Chen Xian knew that Zhao Yulin looked down on it, and said a little embarrassedly that the black gold kept breaking and the light bulb would explode due to the heat, and no matter how hard everyone tried, it was useless.
Zhao Yulin told them that several . First, the tungsten had to be refined to completely remove impurities. Second, the refined tungsten wire had to be repeatedly thinned until it was as thin as a hair. If it was too thick, it would not be bright and would only flicker red when electricity passed through it.
Chen Xian and a group of masters kept nodding their heads and told him that that was the case, it never glowed and they didn't know the reason.
He said that the generator wheel must be more sophisticated, and there must be a fixed number for the size of the copper wire and the number of turns it needs to be wound. The speed of the wheel must also be a fixed number. The faster the speed, the more power it can generate. After testing each value to their limits, the most stable value is found, and then a tungsten wire of appropriately thick and thin is used as the filament, and a bright big light bulb is guaranteed to be made.
Everyone laughed immediately.
The craftsman who made the glass lampshade said he was stupid because the light bulbs he made always exploded.
Zhao Yulin said he had no good solution. A certain gas should be filled into the light bulb to effectively control the heating temperature and avoid explosion. He told the master that other minerals should be added when refining glass to change the hardness of the glass and increase or decrease the thickness of the glass.
Especially if you want to install headlights on the locomotive, you must consider durability.
Everyone nodded continuously.
He asked Chen Xian to set up a separate chemical experimental laboratory, as many novel materials could not be obtained through ordinary physical reaction methods.
Chen Xian nodded repeatedly, and the masters also kept nodding in agreement, telling him that many new substances had been discovered and that they should indeed set up separate institutes and disciplines.
Zhao Yulin discovered that the masters had encountered difficulties with power generation and had reached a bottleneck in the production of electric lights, so he had to help them.
When he got back, the old scholar said happily that Feiyan and Zhidi had also come and had gone out for a horseback ride.
He went over and sat down to have tea with the old people.
The eldest aunt was too embarrassed to go out because of his eldest brother's affairs, so she stayed at home in Xuzhou with her eldest daughter-in-law and did not come. The second aunt smiled and said that his second brother's two children had grown up and were busy building streets in Dujiangyan with Wu Jing, so they would not come.
The old scholar was originally a businessman and didn't care about these things. He told them that when the children grew up, they should be sent out to gain experience. What would be the point of keeping them in front of adults and the elderly?
The young woman beside her said happily: The eldest princess is very smart. After the new year, we will start our own construction business. After buying the land, we will use our own construction company to build streets and houses. This is called a one-stop business. The quality is guaranteed and we will sell them after they are finished.
Our family has to build streets and renovations in several places, and it's all big business.
Zhao Yulin smiled and said: "With my wife watching them, they will definitely be able to do a good job. The construction industry will always be needed, but we can't build streets and houses on a large scale. Be careful that if too many streets are built, no one will want them after they are built."
The old scholar followed up and said: That's right. Everything will turn into the opposite when it reaches its extreme. There are houses being built everywhere. How can so many people buy them? This matter must not be taken lightly. In the past few years, there was a rush to build houses on the street. There were houses everywhere that were abandoned halfway through, which harmed both people and themselves.
The girl nodded in agreement and explained to them: The eldest princess knows what's going on. Whenever she arrives at a place, she first investigates and finds out what's going on before taking any action.
The locations of our street construction are almost all based on new towns and cities. This time, the street to be built in Qiongzhou has attracted many people to see it as soon as it was announced in the newspaper. It will definitely sell well.
His mother said thoughtfully: Sihan’s eldest son is working on the Dujiangyan scenic area, which is a good project and will definitely generate profits in the future if it is completed.
Second Mother looked at the colorful clouds in the south and said that Dali had returned and become one family. Fourth Sister felt relieved and looked several years younger.
The old scholar looked very proud and said with a smile that the fourth room had finally made it, as she had not smiled in the past few years.
Zhao Yulin had Chen Xian and the others' questions in his mind. He personally refilled the elders' tea and went to the study to do some work.
In Shanchan Prefecture, Yunnan, Duan Xiaolin and Zhao Sihan have a rare moment of free time and are boating on Dianchi Lake.
Zhao Sihan leaned on Duan Xiaolin and said: Xiaolin, our idea is a good one. We should have merged into Xinsong and worked with San Ge'er a long time ago.
Now that I'm the pacification envoy, although I don't command the army, the affairs of Yunnan are still decided by us. Feiyan even wrote off our loan. It's a relief now, hahahaha.
Duan Xiaolin happily combed Zhao Sihan's bangs and said seriously: Don't say they are ours anymore, they all belong to the New Song Dynasty, we have to do whatever the court tells us to do.
After the New Year, he would carefully rectify the administration of officials, relocate the supervisory officials at all levels sent by Chengdu according to the requirements of the Ministry of Personnel, investigate corrupt elements, and put the administration of officials in Yunnan Road on the right track.
Zhao Sihan said that there is more to it than that. Third brother wants us to keep an eye on Zhenla and Pagan in the south. The general of Baiyue is already reorganizing the army. Our Dali generals also have to do something for the court.
Duan Xiaolin nodded in agreement, hugged Zhao Sihan and happily looked at the water birds flying freely in the distance.
In Xinshi Town, Zhao Yulin was still in his study thinking about electric lights and generators, sorting out his memories of later generations, how could he know that his sister and brother-in-law were living a happy life on Dianchi Lake in Kunming.
Ma Linger rushed in and told him to stop making a fuss, because the children were waiting to eat the barbecue he made, and the chefs had prepared the ingredients for him, so he should put on his apron and get to work.
Ma Ling'er dragged and pushed him into the yard. Chen Chen immediately put an apron on him and told him to start working. The two sisters Zhao Guangshun and Guangzhi ran over and shouted with a smile: Daddy, hurry up, we are all hungry.
