Zhao Xing pointed at a few directions and replied: "How much did I plunder? You don't need to ask, how much did I plunder for the Song Dynasty? There, there are three huge copper ores in these three directions, and their copper reserves are the sum of the current Song Dynasty. I am going to lay off the small copper ores tasted in Guangdong and Guangxi and build large mines here.

In addition to copper mines, seven large silver mines have been found nearby, and their silver content is more than ten times that of all silver mines in the Song Dynasty. My Song Dynasty lacks silver and copper, and iron, and with this Dali, everything is satisfied."

Zhao Xing pointed to the distance again and continued, "There is a river there that leads directly to Jiaozhi. The coal quality of Jiaozhi is very good, and there is iron ore. Along the Mekong River, I can transport Jiaozhi's coal into Dali, build a large iron yard, and smel the iron ore, copper ore and silver ore in Dali on-site. With these huge amounts of silver and copper, I will never lack money from the Song Dynasty - this is the most important thing."

Sun Cong nodded: "It's a pity that there is too late for time. I can't go to a few mines to see. However, I feel more and more that it is really a wise decision to hand over Dali to you to manage - this thing is corruption--it's something that's corruption--it will only work if it's in your hands. I will definitely tell Mr. Zhang when I go back."

Zhao Xing nodded in agreement.

This is natural. During the peak of tax revenue of the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty had an income of about 160 million guan. If Zhao Xing was willing to increase the tax revenue of Guangnan to 25 million guan, plus Guangxi and Dali, he would be alone to bear one-third of the tax, or even one-half of the entire Song Dynasty. In this case, the court would turn a blind eye to his abnormal movements.

This inspection was just a quick look. Sun Cong was anxious to return to the capital. After he wandered around Dali, he also plundered a boat of stones from Dali and hurried back to Guangzhou. After he plundered the boat of stones, he finally understood why Zhao Xing was crazy about Dali's stones.

Marble is not uncommon in Dali. What is even more strange about Dali is jade and red sapphire. The ship of stones collected by Sun Cong included white marble and various colors of marble, and of course a small number of jade and gems. He rushed to Guangzhou and felt that this business trip was really worth it.

"I have always known that it is a fat man here. It's funny that the idiots in Beijing refuse when they hear that they are coming to Guangzhou. I always think that even if Li Ren goes to a remote place, gold will flow there in the depths of the Nine Netherworld." Sun Cong was so satisfied that he almost moaned.

Zhao Xing was also very satisfied. After returning from this inspection, the court had already sent the reply, and basically implemented it one by one according to Zhao Xing's requirements.

After this war, Zhao Xing also began to reward his subordinates. He assigned many positions he had to his followers - Li Gefei was promoted to Guangnan East Road Strait Military Envoy, Liao Zhengyi served as Guangnan West Road Strait Military Envoy, and Li Zhiyi was also transferred back to Guangzhou to serve as the Maritime Envoy.

At the same time, Wan Qiyong officially became the governor of Guangzhou Prefecture. Of course, his original position as the Transportation Department was still unsuccessful. Shuai Fan officially became the governor of Meizhou and also served as the chief of the Transportation Department's military commander...

After all his subordinates were rewarded, Sun Cong brought half a ship of cargo, the king and powerful ministers of the Dali Kingdom, and on the eve of his departure, the court also gave a new reply based on his report on his trip to Dali. The four ears and ears of the court in Guangdong and Guangxi no longer paid attention to the trivial matters that Zhao Xing did. The court's new order was: pay attention to the tax situation in Guangdong, Guangxi and Xianglin Road, and ensure that the taxes promised by Zhao Xing can be shipped in time in spring and winter...

This order from the court can relieve the embarrassing courts. This means that they will only take money in the future. They will monitor Zhao Xing in February and November every year to issue a deposit to the money order in time, so everything will be OK.

In this way, Zhao Xing was also freed. He could build guns and cannons in the Ming Dynasty, expand his army and use force... The first thing he did was to formally take Su Shi back to Guangzhou, and at the same time appoint Su Shi and his four senior brothers as "study for the study" of Guangdong Prefecture School. Wang Ying and Wenxun turned a blind eye to this, and the two officials in Guangxi who were on the same mission also pretended not to know.

In the twelfth lunar month, the court began to issue an edict, stating that all prefectures and counties prohibit private firearms from being built, except in Guangdong and Guangxi.

Zhao Xing began to formally arm the gunmen in Guangdong and Guangxi. He pointed to the map to explain to Shuai Fan: "Tongguang and Dali, no, it should be said that there are three places to support the army in these three places. Xianglin Road is close to the Tubo area and is a continuous mountainous area. Those mountainous areas are above 3,000 meters above sea level, and some places have snow all year round.

This is not a good place to train soldiers. The temperature in winter is not low. Everyone can come here with a pair of big shorts all year round. Once the army trained here arrives in the north, in the north with a huge temperature difference between day and night, the soldiers will probably lose their troops due to illness.

In recent years, I have been thinking about it everywhere that only Dali mountainous areas are the most suitable for training hard-working troops. I need to train an army of 20,000 people in Dali mountainous areas to adapt to the climate of wind and snow. As for Guangdong, the only mountainous areas in the whole of Guangzhou is suitable for the climate, so I stockpiled heavy troops and Shaoguan. In addition, Fujian is also good. The Fujian bandits are in charge of our Guangdong. The mountainous bandits there are many times. The Fujian Transportation Department has been begging me for a year. I am going to ask Fujian for a piece of land and place my Guangdong musketeers in the mountainous areas of Fujian to adapt to mountain combat.

Since leaving Huanqing, I have been indignant and thought that one day I would fight back Huanqing, so that the people of Xixia would completely know that I, Zhao Laohu, could not be messed with. Huanqing is so cold, we must let the soldiers have the concept of mountain combat and winter combat. I thought so. Zhang Yuezhang planned to let me train three thousand muskets. I asked him for 4,000 people, of which we stayed as seeds in the army.

In addition, people in the mountainous areas of Guangxi are hard-working and hardworking, and the high mountains and earthly barbarians in Xianglin County. In addition, we recruit sailors from Fujian and musketeers from Guangdong. I also plan to recruit a group of tall spearmen from Huainan and Mizhou to form a large musketeer formation.

Supervisor, I should call you Shuai Meizhou now, right? I trained a team of musketeers in Mizhou, but I was still ruined. Since then, I know a truth that it is impossible to rely on human consciousness to complete gun maintenance. I need to use rules to restrict these musketeers - you organize personnel for me, summarize the experience of these two battles, write regulations, and in the future our soldiers will use regulations to restrict soldiers to what to do when encountering them. In this way, our soldiers are a group of soldiers who know how to fight, and they will no longer be blind..."

Shuai Fan replied with a bitter face: "Sir, we have no experience in these two battles. We are intimidating the Zhanpo Kingdom. They surrendered after a cannon. Fighting Dali was just a long-distance marches, that is, in Shanchan Mansion and Wangdu City. The Dali people lined up to fight with us, but after I fired two rounds of muskets, they collapsed. Please let me summarize the experience, what am I summarizing? Is it the experience of soldiers traveling?"

Zhao Xing said toughly: "I don't care. I need musketeers regulations, spearmen regulations, baggage regulations, health regulations, march regulations, camp regulations, training regulations... I hope you will summarize a set of regulations for all military operations, including musketeers' wheel-fire land regulations...

We have no time to delay. Chen Buqun has already led his fleet into the Indian Ocean. I need to form an army next year. Next summer, I will personally lead my troops to Fujian to test our army through actual combat. Now these soldiers are too relaxed. I will scare you and travel. I will also earn a lot. Change my shoes quickly. We will be the most powerful soldiers..."

Zhao Xing was showing his arms and rolling up his sleeves, talking enthusiastically about the rectification plan for the army, but saw a Cheng clan child in the corridor winking at him. Zhao Xing was dissatisfied. He slapped the table and shouted: "Didn't you see that I'm talking about national affairs? If it's not national affairs, get out of here. I'm too lazy to pay attention to your family's trivial matters."

The Cheng clan child hummed and said, "Uncle Seven. What I want to talk about is a major national event... Well, it is also a matter of our family - uncle, don't worry. It is indeed a major event. Guangxi came to report: Mrs. Chen's mother's home, the Chen family from the five northern provinces of Jiaozhi sent troops to special mooring, occupying my 17th village in the Song Dynasty. Guangxi wrote to ask how to deal with it."

After hearing this, everyone turned their eyes to Zhao Xing to see how he answered.

Temodao is a bonded state in Guangxi. This prefecture and county is managed by local chieftains. In modern times, it is called "autonomous region". This area is a buffer zone deep into Dali and Jiaozhi. The south of Temodao is the northern plain of modern Vietnam.

Originally, Vietnam was a narrow and narrow area, and it had always wanted to seize a strategic leap. In the original history, Vietnam sent troops to occupy the southern part of Temo Road after the demise of Dali, which made Vietnam's modern land very wide in the north, while the south was just a narrow corridor.

Zhao Xing sent troops to Dali. After he captured all the monarchs and ministers of Dali, the entire Dali presented an era of power struggle, which also affected the rule of Temodao. At this time, the Chen people, who dominated northern Vietnam, could not resist the temptation and sent troops to seize Temodao, hoping to create a faita success by using their kinship with Zhao Xing.

The Guangxi military knew that Zhao Xing had shared the relationship with Jiaozhi, and it was estimated that Jiaozhi and Zhao Xing's territory were related. In addition, Guangxi did not have much military force, so they shirked the "invasion" and reported it to Zhao Xing, waiting for Zhao Xing's reply.

Zhao Xing glanced at the expressions of everyone in the room and asked angrily and amusedly: "Everyone, who is important to national interests or personal interests?"

Wan Qi Yong avoided Zhao Xing's gaze. He thought that no interests could compare to the interests of his employer. If Zhao Xing was willing to compromise, he would come up with a lot of reasons to delay the handling of this matter.

Shuai Fan slapped the table, blushed and shouted: "Of course, there is no doubt that state affairs should be the first!"

Zhao Xing laughed, and he said slowly: "I have always wanted to interfere in Vietnam. Jinlan City is just one foot. Now it seems that I should extend a hand - order: Meizhou magistrate and Guangdong South Road Transport Department chief of case transfer department, commander of Guangdong's 'general general' to Guangxi and repel Jiaozhi army."

Shuai Fan stood up, saluted her military gaze with a knock on her chest, and asked loudly with a dull expression: "Where is the deadline for my front line?"

Zhao Xing answered with ease: "If possible, I hope you will advance to the capital of Vietnam - the Song Dynasty once returned the five northern provinces of Jiaozhi during the Yuanfeng period. This time, your minimum goal is to regain the five northern provinces. Of course, if you take more advantage, I will only congratulate you."

Shuai Fan knocked on his chest again and turned around without saying a word. He walked out of the hall with his head held high with a soldier's pace. Behind him, Wan Qi Yong muttered in a low voice: "Sir, Mrs. Chen is still in Jinlan. Do you need to know about this?"

Zhao Xing shook his head: "The Jiaozhi people sent troops to the ground and did not notify me, and we did not need to notify the Jiaozhi people. Hurry up and send the Clippers to pick up Mrs. Chen."

Wanqiyong immediately added: "We must also increase troops to Jinlan to prevent the Jiaozhi people from taking the opportunity..."

Zhao Xing slapped the table and smiled: "It's okay. If the Jiaozhi people send troops to Jinlan, then they will fight on two fronts, and we will attack from the north - flow down the Mekong River and arrive directly at his capital... What is that city called? I remember that I once gave them a name called 'Hanoi'. The city of Hedi is an unguarded city for my powerful naval army... The specific strategy is worrying about Shuai Fan. Let's continue to discuss it."

The next issue is the preparation of the "Marine Newspaper". On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Sun Cong had just arrived in Hangzhou with his captured Dali monarch and ministers. The first issue of the Maritime Newspaper was heavily published. The front page of this newspaper was the Dali War Report released by Zhao Xing, and the detailed results of the entire Dali Battle were presented to everyone in detail. Following is Sun Cong's memorial. This memorial has not been reported to the court, but has been pre-published in the Maritime Newspaper.

Sun Cong's memorial first mentioned a concept called "national honor". When he visited Dali, he first observed the pride of Song Shang, Dali and the naturalized scholars of Dali for being a Song people. This war was the first time in history that it was launched in the name of "national safety". After the war, every Song people living in Dali felt extremely proud...

Sun Cong also talked about the Golden Bell Building, the extreme pride he felt when standing at the foot of the mountain and looking up at the setting sun. In this article, he talked about Zhao Xing's view for the first time - culture, which is also a weapon of war.

Next, Sun Cong talked about his visit to the city of Yangjume, the capital of Dali, made of jade. He talked about what Zhao Xing said when he walked on the jade road paved with marble. "From then on, it was my dream city of the Song Dynasty."

In his article, Sun Cong described the dream city made of jade very beautiful. After that, the tourism industry in the Song Dynasty was officially born. After Zhao Xing built a wide road, he had the foundation for the birth of the tourism industry. Many literati scholars rushed to Guangzhou, either by carriage or by water transportation boat in Guangzhou, and rushed to Xianglin County to experience the beauty of the dream city personally.

In addition to the war report and Sun Cong's travel notes, the first issue of the Maritime Newspaper run by Zhao Xing also had a "Hundred Generals' Generation", which published a hundred generals who made contributions in the Dali war. These generals also used the "iron line drawing method" - that is, the line outline method of cartoons to depict the general's avatars and detailed introduction to the cadastral status and achievements of these generals. More than 70% of these generals belonged to Guangxi's barbarians. This suddenly triggered a craze for Guangxi's barbarians. The newly-owned ethnic minorities in Xianglin County also followed the trend and committed crimes. They cried and shouted to join the Guangdong Demon Army...

Zhao Xing ran this newspaper to open the people's horizons. In addition to domestic affairs, it also published the most popular topic in the West today - the mystery of the bronze statue of Rhode Island.

In Rhodes, Greece, a bronze statue of 33 meters high. Now, people have made such speculations about the legendary appearance of the god statue of Rhodes: the colossus holds a gun in his right hand, presses a long sword in his left hand, and the pillar feet are very high columns, surrounded by undulating waves. The legendary colossus can enter and exit the ship under his crotch. The person who made it, Harettas once claimed: "Give the world the second sun."

However, the huge bronze statue of Rhodes stood for more than 50 years and was in a tragic surprise. From 227 BC to 226 BC (Five to Sixth year before the Qin Dynasty Emperor ascended the throne), there were continuous devastating earthquakes in Rhodes, and the city buildings on the island were severely damaged. The statue of the Sun God also broke from its most unsolid place, the knee, collapsed to the ground, leaving only the pedestal and two calves.

After that, Egyptian pharaoh Ptolemy III extended a helping hand to the Rhodes and prepared to provide a huge sum of money to help the Rhodes repair the Sun God Colossus, but the Rhodes refused Ptolemy III's kindness.

The statue of god was lying on the ground, letting the wind and rain, autumn went and spring came. About 900 years later, in 653 AD, the Arabs invaded Rhode Island and found the wreckage of the giant statue lying on the ground. They spent a lot of effort to transport the wreckage to Syria and sold it to a merchant. It is said that the businessman used 880 camels to transport the wreckage, and the whereabouts of the giant statue disappeared. Some people also said that the giant statue was stolen shortly after it collapsed, but the pirate ship sank in the sea in a storm, and the bronze statue was buried deep under the sea. Where did the bronze statue go? I'm afraid there is no way to know.

The Colossus of the Sun God in Rhodes no longer exists, but the legends and speculations about this magical statue have lasting forever. The first to provoke this topic was the "world's No. 1 university" in Italy. They claimed that the Colossus of Rhodes is as high as 33 meters. According to the principle of mechanics, the distance between the legs of the colossus is only 10 meters wide at most. With such a span, it is difficult for ships of slightly large scale to enter and exit; if it is in this posture, the overall pattern of the Colossus will lose balance.

The discussion of the Rhodes Colossus means the official beginning of the Renaissance era, and with the physics of the Rhodes Colossus, Copernicus was born shortly afterwards. World historians believe that from this year, the earth entered the "physical age".
Chapter completed!