In May of the second year of Chengtian, a Song Dynasty merchant ship was hijacked by unknown ships on the sea less than 150 miles through Suzhou, Liao Kingdom, on the way to Laizhou. Twenty people were killed in the ship. Only one sailor jumped into the sea to escape. One day later, he was rescued by a merchant fleet passing through the nearby waters, and his cargo disappeared.

The incident shocked the Song Dynasty court. After reports from the three major newspapers of the Song Dynasty, the anger of the Song Dynasty was unanimously directed at the Liao Kingdom. Only the Liao Kingdom had the ability to intercept nearby passing ships in that sea, and there was a fleet of about twenty ships in the Suzhou Port of Liao Kingdom. The most important thing was that according to the account of the escape sailor, when the two robbers took the Song Dynasty merchant ship and killed them, the language used by the robbers was Khitan, which further confirmed that the incident was done by the Liao Kingdom.

One month after the incident, the Song Dynasty sent envoys to Dading Prefecture to question it. As a result, in fifteen days, the Liao Dynasty did not explain anything about this. The envoys of the Song Dynasty returned to his country to report. The Liao Dynasty's reaction even more angered the Song Dynasty's anger. Three months after the ship hijacking incident, the Song Dynasty sent fifty warships, fifteen of which were warships with twenty artillery guns, and the rest were troop transport ships, carrying 30,000 soldiers and weapons and equipment. They sneaked into Suzhou, Liao Dynasty on the night of the tenth day of August.

At this time, Suzhou, Liao Kingdom was just a big town with a population of less than 20,000, with only three thousand Liao troops and a fleet of twenty warships stationed. The Liao Kingdom ships were only equipped with long-range attack weapons like catapults, and their size was far less than that of the Song Dynasty Navy warships, and even worse than the Song Dynasty warships. Each Song Dynasty troop transport ship was equipped with two cannons, at least ten bed crossbows, and several mortars. Such firepower could be sent to the bottom of the Suzhou fleet even if a Song Dynasty troop transport ship was properly commanded.

Such a comparison of troops and the sneak attack at night, Suzhou Port was broken by the Song army after only one hour. The reason why the battle time was so short was that the Liao army was suddenly attacked and suffered heavy losses, it was also that Suzhou had no city walls. The Song army did not have to carry large siege weapons and directly landed in Suzhou after the bombardment of artillery and captured Suzhou alive. At dawn, the second batch of Song army ships departing from Dengzhou had arrived at Suzhou Port, and this time it brought another 30,000 Song troops. However, there were 10,000 war horses following this group of Song troops.

In the next ten days, the Song Dynasty transported a total of 130,000 troops to the Suzhou Port of Liao through the Dengzhou Port, and at the same time, 30,000 war horses, a large amount of food and supplies, and heavy siege equipment including artillery. Among these 130,000 Song troops, there were 25,000 musket troops, and the number of artillery possessed by the Song army on land alone increased to fifty, not to mention that there was a fleet of forty artillery warships at sea.

During these ten days, the Song Dynasty navy used artillery to wipe out the last naval army of the Liao Kingdom in the port of Jinzhou with absolute advantage, and bombarded Jinzhou City. The fleet artillery triggered a fire in Jinzhou City, burning down the combat preparations for the Liao Kingdom's Tokyo Road girl who had hoarded here since the Song and Liao War. In addition to bombarding Jinzhou, the Song Dynasty navy also launched a shelling of Chenzhou. Under the cover of artillery, the Song army launched an attack on Chenzhou and once entered the city. Unfortunately, the 10,000 reinforcements sent by the Liao Kingdom in Tokyo arrived in time, causing the Song Dynasty army to fail to capture Chenzhou in time. In order to avoid losses, retreating 50 miles under the cover of artillery, and there were twenty Song Dynasty warships and artillery guns around it to provide protection.

On the first day of September 19, the second year of Chengtian, after receiving a large amount of supplements, 50,000 Song troops used large-scale siege equipment to attack Chenzhou. 20,000 musketeers and artillery guards covered the two wings, and thirty warships jointly launched the city to surrender after less than two hours. The 15,000 Liao cavalry outside the city who planned to sneak attack the Song army with cavalry were defeated by the Song army's musketeers and killed more than 10,000 Liao soldiers. On September 13, the Song army completely took over Kaizhou, 150 miles east of Chenzhou from the females. The reward given by the Song army was the Liao military equipment captured by the Song army since the second battle between the Song and Liao.

At this time, the Song and Liao Dynasty fought for forty-three days and obtained the "Liaodong Peninsula" called "Liaodong Peninsula" as Xiao Wang's son-in-law. They killed 30,000 enemies, captured more than 20,000 prisoners, and obtained a large number of supplies such as 30,000 war horses. After obtaining the "Liaodong Peninsula", the Song army used Kaizhou and Chenzhou as mutual support to drive prisoners of war and local recruits between the two cities to build three walled cities, forming a complete line of defense. On this line of defense, a total of 100,000 Song troops were guarded, and a large number of city guard equipment were set up. In addition to musketeers, the Song Dynasty firearms can be found on this line of defense. Near the two cities of Kaizhou and Chenzhou have as many as 40 artillery. Because Chenzhou is located in the sea, the Song army built a port in Chenzhou. The warships of the Song Navy can be further stationed in the Chenzhou Port, and the artillery on the warships can directly support the Chenzhou city defense.

After the Second War of the Song and Liao Dynasty, after the Liao Dynasty lost Suzhou and Jinzhou and Chenzhou were shelled, the Liao Dynasty sent envoys to hope that the Song Dynasty court could end the war and the Liao Dynasty was willing to compensate for all the losses. However, at this time, the Liao Dynasty envoy Yelu Jingui only met Su Shi, the Minister of Rites of the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty court's intention was very obvious. It obtained the "Liaodong Peninsula" in a short period of time and completely eliminated all the navy that the Liao Dynasty had worked hard for eight years. After doing these things, it would sit down and discuss the issue of compensation with the Liao Dynasty.

Until now, no one in the world has paid attention to the sunken Dasong merchant ship. The owner of this merchant ship is named "Xu", but the boss behind the final scenes is the shipping fleet under the Song Dynasty Xiao Wangfu Ma Ma - this is the Dasong commercial fleet second only to the Royal Sea Freight of the Song Dynasty. The scope of activities of this shipping fleet named "Zhiyuan" is centered on the coast of the Song Dynasty, with the farthest farthest being Sulfur Ball and Mayi Island. Of course, in the northern routes, Zhiyuan shipping commercial market occupies 30% of the shares, the royal sea freight fleet accounts for 60%, and the remaining one is controlled by the merchants of Chuzhou. Considering the proportion of shares held by Wang Jinghui and Xu in the Royal Sea Freight, the profits Wang Jinghui can personally obtain from the Northern route of the Song Dynasty are astronomical for an ordinary wealthy businessman in the Song Dynasty.

Zhiyuan Shipping Commercial Bank completely controlled the two ports Laizhou and Dengzhou. On this route, except for the fleet of the Song Dynasty Navy, only the fleet of the Zhiyuan Trading Company could operate legally. This ship hijacking incident was entirely planned by the General Staff of the Song Dynasty Privy Council, and its purpose was to enable the Song Dynasty to obtain a reason to start a war against Liao. The Zhiyuan Shipping under Wang Jinghui took on this mission. In fact, the Liao fleet did not go out to sea to intercept the Song Dynasty merchant ships that day. They had done it before, but they were defeated by the Song Dynasty escort fleet. The Song Dynasty had never held the Liao Dynasty responsible for political needs. After several failed interceptions, the Liao people did not dare to provoke the Song Dynasty merchant ships, and even sailed in a waters so close to the Liao Dynasty Navy, so the Song Dynasty ships would not have any worries.

Since the first year of Chengtian, the Song Dynasty has made up its mind to take down the naval army of the Liao Kingdom. Because the shipbuilding technology of the Liao Kingdom was not up to standard, and the navy was only in its infancy. Even the navy ten times that of the Liao Kingdom was definitely not the opponent of the Song Dynasty navy that had already installed artillery on warships. According to Wang Jinghui's suggestion, this warship with twenty-two artillery on a large warship was named "battleship". Although the ship speed was not high, the battleship armed with sharp artillery can be said to be a fire hedgehog full of fire.

During the secret exercise of the Song Dynasty Navy, such a battleship could independently fight against armed troop ships from the same direction without the enemy approaching. If they deal with naval warships in the traditional sense, they would be invincible. This firepower advantage of the battleship was also considered by the General Staff of the Song Dynasty, which made the battleships in the Second Song and Liao War triggered by the ship hijacking incident, the battleships were the best choice to attack Suzhou, Jinzhou and Chenzhou, Liao Kingdom. These three cities were very close to the ocean and were all within the control range of the artillery of the battleships. Cooperating with the Song army to siege the city would be twice the result with half the effort. The facts just proved this.

Although the Liao navy only developed for seven or eight years, this is a dangerous signal. In Wang Jinghui's view, the ocean belongs to the Song Dynasty and no country should be involved in it. As long as the place where the warships of the Song Dynasty sailed, they were all territory of the Song Dynasty. For this reason, when the Song Dynasty proposed to introduce advanced shipbuilding and navigation technology of the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty refused without hesitation and also closely monitored it.

The famous sea merchant Liu family in Hangzhou was once the largest shipbuilder in Hangzhou four years ago. According to the genealogy of the Liu family that Wang Jinghui had seen, this Liu family may be a Chinese-style Westerner. In addition, the Liu family also had the habit of worshiping, so the founder of the Liu family was probably a Jew. However, because of the purchase of Goryeo, the Liu family concealed the Maritime Warehouse Department to send a group of craftsmen to Goryeo. As a result, the Song Dynasty Intelligence Bureau immediately reported the news that Goryeo's shipbuilding technology had made a breakthrough back to the Biandu of the Song Dynasty. After careful investigation, it was determined that Liu family betrayed the Song Dynasty's seaship construction technology.

This result caused an uproar in the Song Dynasty. The Hangzhou Maritime Warehouse and the Song Dynasty Navy immediately placed the Liu family in Hangzhou under house arrest as soon as possible, and the entire clan escorted the Dali Temple in Kaifeng, Bian Capital for trial. According to Wang Jinghui's suggestion, the owners of the fourteen largest shipbuilding merchants in Hangzhou, Chuzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou and other places were invited to Dali Temple to participate in the Liu family's trial. During the trial, Liu first denied everything, and contacted officials with close contacts to bribes in an attempt to save himself.

The result of the trial was that eighteen people below the Liu clan leader were sentenced to death, all the property of the whole clan was seized, all the medals awarded by the court were taken back, and all the clan except domestic servants and slaves were escorted to Mayi Island to reclaim the land, even the newborn children were no exception. The most wonderful thing was that the Liu clan leader burst out the officials he accepted bribes in despair, and dug up an account book from the secret place of the Liu clan old house, which detailed the detailed process and number of Liu clan each time he bribed. Welcome to Boiling @#Literature

The temporary rebellion of Liu made the case stir again, and the Bureau of Statistics of the Song Dynasty intervened in this case. The Liu family was also a rich man in Hangzhou. At that time, because Wang Jinghui rejected the Jews who were sinicized and the cannibals and did business together, the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce did not dare to accept aliens into the association. When Li Shen was the governor of Hangzhou, he also adhered to Wang Jinghui's principle of rejecting aliens. However, these aliens who accepted the sinicization constantly opened up various joints and frantically bribed officials at all levels through their strong financial resources. This phenomenon was not obvious when Li Shen was there, especially after Li Shen left his post, officials basically accepted bribes, and these people were very wise and expanded their power to Kaifeng, Bian. Several officials in the court became their protective umbrellas.

After the Dasong Bureau of Statistics intervened in the investigation based on this account book, a large number of officials were dismissed and handed over to the Ministry of Personnel and Dali Temple for further investigation. What surprised Wang Jinghui the most was that Wang Rong was also vaguely involved in this case. However, Wang Rong did very concealedly, and the middleman also insisted on his own charges and replaced Wang Rong with cover. Wang Rong had a special identity, and Wang Jinghui did not mean to investigate in depth, but he had no intention of scruples about the official who was a scapegoat. Although "Wang Yanei" greeted him, Wang Jinghui still interfered with the trial results of the Dali Temple through his own influence and directly sent the official to Mayi Island to open up the land. The serious crimes are ranked among the top three in this case.

The Liu family case was too involved and had a deep impact. Although the charges were very serious, as the first typical "technical smuggling" caught by the Song Dynasty, such heavy punishment was expected. At the same time, the court also explicitly stipulated that naturalized Hu merchants were not allowed to engage in shipbuilding, printing, textiles, oil pressing and other industries, and stipulated strict time required that these Hu merchants sell their related industries, otherwise they would be searched overdue. This regulation is extremely strict. There is no doubt that Hu merchants will suffer heavy losses in the short term. Wang Jinghui did not want to be a Nazi, but he did not want a second Liu family. The technical secrets of the Song Dynasty must be strictly kept confidential, so that the Song Dynasty can be guaranteed to have a leading position.

Although he dealt with Liu, Goryeo did not agree. If it weren't for the great reliance on the Song Dynasty, I'm afraid that the envoys of Goryeo who were always in the capital of the Song Dynasty might not have apologized. Even so, Goryeo would not have let the shipbuilders of Liu return to the country. However, two months later, Goryeo's envoys requested to meet the Emperor of the Song Dynasty for no reason. Less than a month after Goryeo refused to "extradition" Liu's shipbuilders returned to the country, Goryeo's grain prices suddenly rose without any warning, and in less than ten days

In the village, the price of rice in Goryeo nearly doubled. After receiving Wang Jinghui's suggestion, the merchants of the Song Dynasty hoarded food one after another. After the Liu case was finally completed, Goryeo refused to extradite shipbuilders, they immediately joined forces to raise the price of Goryeo's grain, causing Goryeo to soar in a short period of time. At this time, the place with the most grain in Goryeo was Jeju Island. After the grain merchants of the Song Dynasty hoarded grain, they all began to transfer to Jeju Island. If Goryeo was not tactful, Wang Jinghui would buy the grain on Jeju Island directly and transfer to the Song Dynasty.

Goryeo has been fighting with women and Naomen for several years. This time, the price of domestic food soared greatly in a short period of time, which greatly shook the stability of Goryeo. After sending the envoy of Goryeo, he immediately apologized to the Song Dynasty and returned the shipbuilding craftsmen. This action allowed the senior officials of the Song Dynasty to clearly see the role of the economic weapon in the battle between countries. The Song Dynasty did not need to threaten force at all, so it could easily make a country surrender. Of course, before implementing this strategy, it was necessary to ensure its strength. In any case, this confrontation between Goryeo and Song Dynasty was completely defeated, and the final solution was that the Goryeo royal court repurchased all the food in the hands of merchants in the Song Dynasty at 80% of the current rice price, and the subsequent price of arms between Goryeo and Song Dynasty increased by 10%.

But then again, the Song Dynasty also learned the importance of technical confidentiality through this lesson. In the past, the core focus of technical confidentiality was on firearms and other aspects. Now, military-related technologies such as shipbuilding technology and navigation technology are within the confidentiality scope of the Song Dynasty.

The Liao Kingdom had thought of a method like Goryeo to obtain the shipbuilding technology of the Song Dynasty. However, with Goryeo's lessons learned from it, the Liu family's trial resulted greatly shocking the unscrupulous businessmen of the Song Dynasty, which made the Liao Kingdom's efforts in this regard have not made any progress. However, unlike Goryeo, the Liao Kingdom itself had many Han craftsmen, which were much stronger than Goryeo in terms of technical reserves and national resources. Even if it was impossible to obtain relevant information from the Song Dynasty, the Liao Kingdom could develop slowly. The Liao Kingdom had indeed put a lot of effort into this aspect over the past eight years, building very excellent ports and shipbuilding workshops in Suzhou and Jinzhou, and painstakingly established two fleets of considerable scale.
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