Chapter 377 The sound of the bell on the Lion Mountain

When the Third Fleet joined the battle, there was basically no suspense in the naval battle. The Zhuluo people, who lacked effective long-range attack weapons, had no power to fight back against the red shells. The burning objects piled on their decks were originally used to set fire to the Song soldiers, but now they have become barbecue on themselves. The red iron balls fell on the deck, and the jumping had already ignited several flammable objects. Soon, most of the warships of the Zhunian Kingdom turned into torches, and the sea was full of soldiers of the Zhunian Kingdom who jumped to escape. The Song army musketeers stood on the side of the ship and fired them ruthlessly.

With the power of great victory, when the Song army warship entered Jaffna, there was no one who dared to look up at the Song army soldiers. The Sanfoqi fleet, which arrived at the Song army merchant ship, seemed eager to try. They frequently instigated Song Shang to advance into the opposite Zhunian Continent. Song Shang hesitated, and Zhao Xing did not interfere, and commanded the soldiers to start building cities and garrisons in Jaffna.

While stepping on this fertile land, Chen Buqun was still frightened by the huge population base in the local area. He arranged strict protection and ordered soldiers below the 100-man team to be prohibited from acting alone. Zhao Xing disagreed. He knocked on his shiny whale leather boots with a horse whip and said in a relaxed tone: "Don't worry, the war has ended, and the only thing left is massacre. There is no need for a large army to conquer this land, only 200 people are enough."

Zhao Xing was telling the truth. He seemed to remember that France used 200 people to conquer Vietnam, while the Spanish Pizarro conquered less than 200 people to conquer the North American continent. I remember that when the Portuguese conquered this land, the soldiers who were just over 100 achieved their goal.

Now, perhaps the Zhunian Kingdom has not yet fallen due to the continuous internal conflict, or perhaps this era is the most prosperous period of the country's garrison, but for the slave regime, a one-sided victory is enough to shock the other party. All he has done now is expulsion to ensure that his own rule continues to exist.

Zhao Xing did not know the history of Sri Lanka's conquest. He said this from the expressions of the locals. When the Song army entered Jaffna, the locals' expressions were fearful and helpless, but when they waited for the subsequent Song Shang to enter, the locals' expressions jumped and became happy.

In this era, Song Shang land was spread all over the world. Even in a closed place like Jaffna, local natives had heard of the wealth of Song Shang. In the past, the conflicts between Jaffna were frequent. Song Shang did not dare to enter. Now, the Song army took advantage of the great victory and in the name of the Huluna Kingdom in the north to establish land and autonomy in the Jaffna area, and declared that the land was under the management of the Song Shang. Local natives knew the wealth of Song Shang and also knew the rich profits brought by maritime trade, and they had long heard of the gentlemanly demeanor of Song Shang. So they were convinced to remove the sense of resistance and prepared to enjoy the benefits brought by Song Shang.

Unexpectedly, the Song army sent a farmer capturing team and began to capture manpower in a planned manner. In the name of helping Song merchants establish ports and villages, they moved them to the Song ships, and then ships of slaves were transported to the Song country. When the locals woke up, the population had dropped to one-quarter of the original place.

However, their disaster did not end. In the newly built stone house in the Jaffna port, Song merchants and Song officers were pointing at the map and began to scrape off their land.

Chen Buqun was the host of this spoils-sharing conference. He took a pen and drew a circle on the map of the Jaffna Peninsula, saying with a rough leaf: "This land is about 100,000 mu, and the Guangzhou Fans invested 1 million yuan in this battle. This land belongs to you."

The leader of the French people, Faulkner, shook his head like a wave drum: "No, no, no, we are merchants, what do we want that land for? We only need the port. General Chen said just now that this war costs a total of three million guan. Our investment is one million guan, and we dig out the hard money of the soldiers participating in the war. We believe that it is natural for us to occupy a quarter of the spoils this time - the Jaffna Port Area, and we require a quarter of the warehouses and berths, which should be reasonable."

A Song Shang jumped up and shouted, "You are so unreasonable. My Song army and my Song warships are wet with my Song Dynasty blood. Why do you want to occupy a quarter of the dock?"

Faulkner rolled his eyes and replied arrogantly: "Your Excellency the Grand Marshal often says: Whoever invests will make a profit. Our investment amount accounts for one-third of the total amount, and your land's income not only includes the port, but as far as I know, the land of the slave hunting team is also good, and there are also the large tracts of farmland on the island. We only require one-quarter of the port. I think this is already quite modest."

Zhao Xing nodded: "Yes, I can give you a quarter, but this quarter is just the area that is currently naturalized. If the port expands, I can't promise you more."

Faulkner nodded and added: "If so, we will need another 30,000 acres of land to let everyone build a manor in the countryside. Can you allow it?"

"Your request is not too much... OK, everyone, there is no need to argue. There is a lot of land and the port can expand infinitely. It depends on your ability now. Please claim your spoils."

After Zhao Xing said that, he took out a drawing. The drawing was the planning of the entire Jaffna. At present, only the military camp in Jaffna was newly established, and the rest of the areas were drawn for their own purposes, but there might be a farmland, a pond, or a jungle.

Many areas are drawn in large and small on these lands, and each area is marked with corresponding valuations. Except for the slightly higher valuation in the dock area, the prices in other areas are very low, and even so low that it is outrageous. A large area of ​​ready-made farmland only sells a few copper coins per mu...

This is Zhao Xing's development plan. He harvested the land, and then planned it on the land. Based on the merchant's sponsorship amount for the war, the merchant spontaneously subscribed it, and then asked the merchant to develop according to his plan. He only cared for taxes and provided protection to the merchant, and did not interfere with anything else.

This novel development policy is very popular among the merchants of the Song Dynasty. They think that this is their own land and the taste of making decisions is very sweet and makes them enjoy it. Who knows that this practice is called "borrowing chickens to lay eggs" in modern times. To be straightforward, it is simply called "making money out of nothing".

Zhao Xing happily watched the merchants argue over every piece of land, their competition for one street and one warehouse and one warehouse to make concessions. This scene made Zhao Xing feel excited.

There was nothing wrong with Zhao Xing here. He quietly got up and walked out of the controversial scene while others were not paying attention.

There was a debate outside the house. Zhao Xing saw the military and local medical officers arguing with Chen Buqun. The group of medical officers looked excited and Chen Buqun seemed very dissatisfied. Their quarrel was not loud. Zhao Xingxian was bored and walked to the doctor freely and asked: "What are you quarreling?"

Chen Buqun shrugged and pointed at the medical officer and said, "Recently, many soldiers have become sick. Some people say that we offended the plague god. The medical officers said, "I don't say that the strange powers and chaos are in chaos. The military strictly follows the sanitary regulations. However, there are still strange diseases. The soldiers cannot eat and are mostly weak. Since this is the case, it is better to believe it and do a ritual to stabilize the morale of the army."

The group of medical officials quickly shouted that one person came forward to argue with Zhao Xing, and he said with confidence: "Sir, you once said that you were traveling far away from a foreign land. Many strange diseases were mostly caused by unclean drinking water. But now we do pay attention to drinking water. The soldiers' excrement was also handled with all their heart every day according to the instructions of the Taiwei, so that they would never pollute the water source.

We have tried our best, but the soldiers are still ill one after another. Even some generals from Guangnan are not withstand the scorching heat here. There are many discussions in the army. We think that if we want to comfort the soldiers, it is no longer our ability. Please ask the Lord to make an appointment, open an oath to exorcise evil spirits..."

Zhao Xing slapped his forehead and said in annoyance: "Yaa, why did I forget - the thermometer, we have made glass and mercury is ready. Why did I forget to make the thermometer?"

After a moment of pause, Zhao Xing raised his face and said, "Indeed, under the current circumstances, it is beyond the responsibility of the doctor to stabilize the morale of the army. It is just a way to open the altar. I can't do it. In my opinion, there is only the only god between heaven and earth, that is the 'upper god'. Apart from the upper god, there is no sea god in the sea, and there is no mountain god in the mountains. People are sick, and it is not the reason for the plague god, because the plague god does not exist, and people are sick, there must be a cause. What do you think is the cause of this?"

The medical officer whispered for a moment and recommended someone to answer: "Sir, I think it's hard to get the heat here. Perhaps it's because of the rising heat that causes the disease to spread. The treatment method should be mainly cool, such as snakeskin bear bile, so that it must harmonize yin and yang..."

Then, the medical officer talked about the cause of the soldier's illness from the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams theory. He believed that metal, wood, water, fire, and earth correspond to the lungs, liver, kidneys, heart, and spleen in the human body. Only when the five elements are balanced can the human body maintain health and strong qi and blood. The heart belongs to fire, and people are worried after leaving their hometown, so the fire is large, leading to the imbalance of yin and yang. Fire produces earth (spleen, stomach), so the intestines and stomach are weak, and the qi and blood are insufficient...

The medical officer said a lot of medical terms, and then added regretfully: "I originally had herbal tea in Guangdong to relieve heat, but the heat in Guangdong is different from this. Xiaguan thought that if the heat in Guangdong could be considered three points, this place would be very hot. Xiaguan and others had never experienced this situation, so they were powerless for this. Perhaps doing a ritual can eliminate the distractions in the soldiers' minds and may be beneficial to things."

Zhao Xing slowly called a craftsman and told the method of preparing the thermometer he understood. He ordered the craftsman to prepare several thermometers quickly. After all this, he turned around slowly and said thoughtfully: "I remember hearing about this reason: eating habits are closely related to the local environment, what are the local people like to eat, what principles must be contained in this eating habit, so that the local people can be suitable for the growth environment - what foods are eaten locally?"

The medical officer showed a look of contempt on his face, and a sniffed sound in his mouth, commenting: "Those Kunlun slaves don't know what food is. They eat in a large pot of food, sticky and slimy, with shape and no color, except for the rich aroma, nothing worth boasting about. Speaking of aroma, it is still a strange fragrance, and the soldiers are extremely reluctant to smell it."

Zhao Xing slapped his thigh and shouted: "I understand that it is water. The local climate is hot and people need to replenish a lot of water. Therefore, the local people eat, even the rice is porridge-like - salt. The soldiers are so hot that they are hard to bear. After drinking a lot of water, the salt in their bodies is lost, so their limbs are weak. This is not a disease, and it has nothing to do with the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams. A cup of salt water solves the problem and lets the soldiers drink a lot of light salt water..."

After a brief chat, Zhao Xing carefully explained the role of salt in his body to the doctor. He tried to tell them in words that the ancients could understand. As he was speaking, several craftsmen brought a few prepared thermometers and asked Zhao Xing to watch them. Zhao Xing took it casually and asked in surprise: "So fast?"

The craftsmen of Suijun disagreed: "Sir, you want a glass stick. It's not a skill to pour mercury into this thing."

赵兴不知道,也就在此时,宋徽宗出宫游玩.看到一个玻璃瓶,觉得很显,忽发奇想,想在玻璃瓶内部镀上一层金箔,他把这个想法跟皇家工匠们说了后,工匠觉得那玻璃瓶口太小,玻璃又质地过脆,简直想不出办法来完成宋徽宗地心愿……结果.一名玻璃匠工随手解决了这个问题,他用水银融化了金箔后,灌入瓶中,而后摇晃水银,让水银挤压金箔.铺设平整,顺利的完成了瓶内镀金的任务.

This is actually a simple process for making mirrors. The Song Dynasty had been using this method to make thermos for several years, but no one thought of it at that time. Use this method to plate a layer of gold or silver foil on the flat glass as a mirror.

This matter has nothing to do with Zhao Xing. In the time and space without Zhao Xing, the glass craftsman still independently completed the work of plating the glass bottles. As a glass craftsman in the Song Dynasty, he was actually often exposed to mercury, so making a thermometer was just a very inconspicuous job for the craftsman. Zhao Xing was surprised, but the craftsman felt that the Taiwei was fussing.

He didn't know that at this moment, the first thermometer of Earth civilization was born, which also means that there was another weight and measure on the earth.

Zhao Xing exclaimed repeatedly. He glanced at the thermometer with his eyes, but was startled by the temperature displayed on it: "What, forty-nine degrees. Are you sure?"

The craftsman nodded: "As the Taiwei said, I took the temperature of the ice-water mixture as zero degrees, and the boiling water as Baidu. A hundred scales were divided in the middle, and I did as the Taiwei commanded it, and there was no difference."

At this moment, the temperature of Celsius changed, and from then on it was called "Zhao's temperature", and the inventor changed to Zhao Xing's head.

“四十九度,这里的温度居然是四十九度,难怪”,海面上时常有大风,赵兴待在港口,只感觉到炎热,却还没有那种们地喘不过气来的感觉,当然,他养尊处优的,住的是太阳晒不透的石屋,喝地是专门从日本北海运过来的冰水,有几艘快船专门负责替他运送冰块,自然感觉不到过分酷热.然而士兵不同,士兵所住的军营简陋,又没有相应的消暑设备,贾夫纳当地港口在宋商地折腾下,已经变成了一个大工地,士兵们无处可去,自然就觉得气候分外不适应.

Zhao Xing repeatedly confirmed the temperature in his hand. He quickly turned to Chen Buqun and ordered: "You can't delay it. Go to Zhenla immediately to recruit 20,000 craftsmen and build a military camp for the soldiers. The military camp must be made of huge stones, and there must be a swimming pool in front of the door. I hope you will send someone to set off today..."

Zhenla is not far from Zhunian. Walking from the sea and bypassing the Indian Red Continent, the corner of the Gorge where Zhunian is located is Zhenla. On land, Zhenla is also bordering Vietnam. Zhenla is the Kingdom of Gurkha when he went westward.

"We have commercial relations with Zhenla. You send a squadron to tell the Song merchants there about the opening of Jaffna's port, and ask them to help recruit 20,000 to 30,000 stonemasons. In addition, my guards also stood at the port of Gurkha to inform them that I planned to set up a foreign legion, which was specifically responsible for protecting overseas territories and asked them to recruit people."

After a while, Zhao Xing said in contemplation: "Tell those injured and sick people to come overseas and go back without looking at the beautiful local scenery. It's a pity. Tell them that I plan to take them to Colombo, the capital of Selan and King, to see the rare beautiful scenery in the world, and then they can go home."

Before the group of medical officers could say anything, Chen Buqun had already replied: "I just said that the teacher will not care about those gods and ghosts. This news is more effective than opening the game. After hearing this news, the soldiers and generals will be excited. Just wait for the teacher to take them out."

The world is sometimes so wonderful. Zhao Xing was thinking of wandering around Colombo, and Colombo sent someone to invite Zhao Xing as a guest.

The Arab ship came. When he heard the news of the Battle of the Pauk Strait, the Arabs were originally complacent and expected that the local people would gain the upper hand, which made the Song Shang retreat as usual. The Arabs continued to monopolize the trade route, but unexpectedly, the Song army easily took the Jaffna Peninsula. Afterwards, the investigation proved that the Zhunian Kingdom had lost tens of thousands of "warships", and the Song army sank two and slightly injured more than ten, which was almost no loss.

The huge fleet of Song State was stationed on this ocean, neither leaving nor retreating. At the same time, the mainland's Zhunian Kingdom was preparing for war wildly. They almost removed the door panels of the whole country to prepare "warships" to prevent the Song army's revenge. However, the Song army built a large-scale construction in Jaffna, looking like an occupation army, and the Arabs sent envoys to ask the Song Shang land's intentions and seek to reach a compromise with the Song Shang on the issue of market share.

The news of the Arab warships leaving the port also alarmed the local vassal kings. The vassal kings sent envoys to accompany the ship and sent an invitation to garrison to Zhao Xing. The local Song merchants in Colombo were also under the pressure of the natives and Arabs, and most of them were untenable. The remaining pitiful families also formed a relationship with the Arabs through marriage. In this regard, the Song merchants and Arabs did not conflict with Zhao Xing, because Zhao Xing also had a concubine who was an Arab and was said to be very favored.

Zhao Xing lazily listened to the introduction of the Arab merchant. He pointed at Chen Buqun and said, "Buqun, I have left the matters to you when negotiating with the local king. I am just a pioneer. Or a guide, and I will give you the right path. I will rely on you on how to go. Only when you awaken can my emperor Song maintain the glory in front of you..."

After saying that, Zhao Xing stood up leisurely and walked out the door with his hands behind his back. He said as he walked, "I heard that Colombo is a good place. The gems there are cheap like stones, and a piece of silk is exchanged for a basket of miscellaneous stones. I heard that the beautiful scenery there is also good. I will be a tourist and lead the soldiers to enjoy the beautiful scenery..."

Chen Buqun sat on the chair with a bitter face. Several Arab merchants from Colombo heard Zhao Xing's words and hurriedly added: "Grandmaster, we have been to Guangzhou before, and have seen your heroic figure from afar. We have also dated Mrs. Kasli. Unfortunately, we were unable to visit the Grandmaster in person.

The Taiwei wants to see the beautiful scenery, we have already arranged it. We plan to hold a grand banquet for you in the Lion Claw Palace, and ask the Taiwei to enjoy the scenery."

Zhao Xing said oh, stopped, and asked back: "Are you able to enter and exit the Lion Claw Palace freely now? That's great!"

The muscles on the Arab businessman's face jumped, and Colombo sent over to Dixilan officials quickly explained: "My respectful lord, the Lion Claw Palace is still ours. My king intends to welcome you in the Lion Claw Palace. Our respected Arab guests have sponsored this..."

Zhao Xing nodded: "I said... Buqun, notify the soldiers of this news and tell them that the Lion Claw Palace contains Buddha teeth, which are the Buddha's land teeth. Don't they want to pray for blessings? What else is more honorable than praying for blessings to Buddha teeth?"

Chen Buqun jumped up in shock: "Buddha's teeth are really Buddha's teeth?"

The Colombo official proudly raised his chest and replied: "Of course!"

"Of course!" Zhao Xing also answered firmly: "Sri Lanka believes in Buddhism starts with obtaining Buddha teeth!"

What Zhao Xing hadn't said was that when India demolished all Buddhist temples, Sri Lanka became the first country of Buddhism because of the existence of the Buddha's tooth land. Even India later reintroduced Buddhism from Sri Lanka. In the eyes of Buddhism, the Buddha's tooth palace was like the Vatican in the eyes of the Indians, with supreme status, and Sri Lanka also became the "pope" of Buddhism.

Chen Buqun grabbed the Colombo officials with interest, completely ignoring the Arab representatives, and asked: "What is the Lion Claw Palace?"

The Lion Claw Palace is a miracle of the world. It is located on the majestic lion platform. The top of the mountain is flat, similar to Table Mountain in South Africa. The Sri Lankans built a majestic underground palace here. The Sri Lankan people also came because of this Lion Mountain palace. It is a national symbol.

This palace was not lived by the emperor, but was a place where local monks worship Buddha's teeth and practice. In modern times, this Lion Claw Palace has another name, called "Air Garden" or "Lost Palace"... Of course, it is not the sky garden called "Seven Wonders of the World".

The Lion Claw Palace developed to its peak. With the migration of Buddha's teeth, it suddenly declined and then disappeared silently. It was not until modern archaeologists tried several times to find its correct location and dug it out of the dense jungle. The modern Lion Mountain only has the original swimming pool in the palace.

Zhao Xing just stood at the door and asked whether the Arabs were qualified to enter and exit the Lion Claw Palace freely, just to ask whether the palace had suddenly disappeared.

At the beginning, this palace declined in religious conflicts, and then in the genocide massacre, the descendants could not even explain its specific location. Later, due to the rapid growth of tropical plants, within two years, all the grandeur was hidden under the lush grass - such as the capital of King La, Angkor Wat.
Chapter completed!