In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 469 The land area is several times larger

Opposite Boni Bay is the later NSQD, and behind it are Annan and Champa.

At this time, Qin Chen turned around and said to the civil and military officials: "Our shore is less than two thousand miles away from the coast of Champa."

"With favorable winds, our warships can arrive in three or four days."

"When Borneo stabilizes, His Majesty will sooner or later attack Champa and Annam."

Everyone nodded with excitement.

The emperor rewarded expansion and colonization heavily.

For example, the civil and military personnel at the scene had enfeoffed land and resources in Hanzhou and Borneo, and also enjoyed state-owned decentralization incentives.

For example, in Hanzhou, the imperial court had a sugar factory, and the high-ranking civil and military officials on site enjoyed the dividends from the sugar factory, which could amount to more than a few thousand guan each year.

This is a reward for their long-term overseas stay. In addition, each of them has hundreds of acres of fiefdom in Hanzhou, and the tax rate is extremely low.

The next step is to digest the territory he gained, and then wait for the Mongolian army to take the initiative to attack, waiting for work.

However, most of the officials he re-employed are not such flattering people, so there have been relatively few similar documents across the country in recent years.

But Zhao Yurui did revitalize the Song Dynasty, and some officials carefully suggested that he hold a banquet to celebrate a little.

Because there are seven islands together, the artillery factory and firearms bureau are located on the largest island, and garrisons are dispatched to several surrounding islands. Each island only needs two boats and about 200 people.

At this time, a civil servant suddenly asked: "Can we build a gun factory?"

So he decided to locate the artillery factory in Borneo on the South China Sea side.

Wokuotai will march thousands of miles this time. He will rendezvous with Batu in the future, and then come to attack the Song Dynasty. It will take tens of thousands of miles back and forth. Since he has to work slowly and hard, Zhao Yurui is certainly not in a hurry.

Yu Jie and Meng Gong both asked if they wanted to intercept halfway, but Zhao Yurui thought about it and decided not to do it.

If the enemy comes to attack, the shore is only a dozen miles away, and reinforcements will arrive quickly.

Zhao Yurui wanted to colonize overseas, and even wanted to seize the United States. He couldn't build cannons from the Song Dynasty and transport them to every garrison he visited.

So Zhao Yurui designated the beginning of September as National Day. From then on, officials across the country would have three days off every year.

Then from here, go to all over the world.
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In September of the eighth year of Yuanzhen, the weather in Lin'an was relatively hot.

There was no artillery factory in Hanzhou, so Qin Chen said he wanted to build one in Borneo, which surprised him.

On the fourth day of September, Zhao Yurui received another document urging him to become a Zen official. When he saw that the person handed over was a seventh-rank official from the Ministry of Household Affairs, Zhao Yurui was furious. The advantage of Beijing officials is not to allow you to hand over documents randomly without any trouble. He immediately The decree was issued to demote this minor official to the ninth rank. All the officials in the capital were frightened and no one dared to mention this matter again.

Zhao Yurui thought to himself, the main Mongolian force has not been defeated yet, what a waste of celebration, if Chagatai, Batu, and Ogedai unite, and there are nearly 500,000 to 600,000 troops, sooner or later they will be a serious problem.

Borneo Province is a huge area, with 80% of the area covered by forests and close to the sea, making it very suitable for building a base.

But then I thought about the unparalleled achievements I had made, which surpassed the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty. I must let the world know about it.

After the Jingkang Disgrace, the Song Dynasty finally took back all the north, and also occupied the former Mongolian territories such as Liaodong and Guanshan. Zhao Yurui's reputation had reached its peak. If it were replaced by another emperor, the officials below persuaded him to become a Zen emperor. The documents will float into the imperial city like snowflakes.

In September, the news from the front had fully spread back to China, and the whole Song Dynasty was full of joy.

Now we are in Borneo Province, which is rich in forest resources, oil and borneol oil. The imperial court wants to build a borneol oil factory there and find ways to extract oil.

Of course, this island was not called Labuan Island. Qin Chen found that the island was very close to the shore, only more than ten miles away.

In the past, when the imperial court sent officials and generals overseas, most people did not want to go, but now Zhao Yurui uses dividends to attract them, and many people are rushing to come overseas.

That is Labuan Island, eight kilometers west of Borneo.

As long as his Da Song keeps leading.

After looking around, Qin Chen decided to locate the artillery factory on the island and named it Qixing Island.

Moreover, the number of elite cavalry of the Song Army was limited, so there was no need to travel long distances to the grasslands to find the Mongolian army for a decisive battle.

The navy and cavalrymen of the Song Dynasty will continue to come to Boluo in the future.

"It can be built. The imperial court has given the decree." Qin Chen said, "But we must keep it secret and choose the site carefully."

There should be no civilians on the island where there is a garrison. This way, they can be surrounded and guard the artillery factory.

Qin Chen started to choose a place around him the next day, and soon found a good place.

Once the relevant factories are established, the first batch of civil and military personnel who come to the local area to open up wasteland will get a share.

In later generations, this was a duty-free island and a resort center.

After occupying Borneo, the first thing he did was to expand the local docks and prepare larger docks and shipyards.

Lin'an City has been very lively these days. The people in the city are celebrating the Song Dynasty's recovery of their homeland. Zhao Yurui even led the ministers to pay homage to the ancestral temple.

At this time, the official appointment from the court had not arrived, but Qin Chen had received the secret order from Zhao Yurui in advance and was completing the establishment of the governor of Borneo Province.

This island is neither big nor small, about 92 square kilometers.

Zhao Yurui received news early in the morning that Wokuotai had withdrawn from Guanshan. The Song army's forward arrived at Guanshan. Wokuotai led hundreds of thousands of people to bypass Lake Baikal and join Chagatai in the west.

At present, Mongolia has been completely expelled and left the Central Plains. His Song Dynasty has not only restored all the territory it had in the Northern Song Dynasty, but it has also become several times larger.

Let the world remember that it was he, Zhao Yurui, who recovered the north.

According to Qin Chen's intention, the main craftsmen of the firearms factory were imperial craftsmen, and most of them were original Bo Ni people. All the Bo Ni people were locked up in the factory. Even if they learned how to make artillery, they could not leave.

Artillery will soon become undefendable, and all countries in the world will definitely learn how to do it.

Various government-run factories of the imperial court offer discounts to share the joy of the people. Many shops in Lin'an City also offer discounts, all in response to His Majesty the Emperor and to show goodwill to the imperial court.

On the eighth day of September, Zhao and Rui decreed that the grain tax in this year's autumn tax, on a household basis, would be fully exempted for those with less than 20 acres per capita across the country, and would be reduced by 30% for those with more than 20 acres, and less than 100 acres per capita. The above prices are reduced by 20% to cater for the National Day.

Commercial taxes in various places, including license plate tax and red building tax, will be reduced by 20%.

This move once again shocked the whole country, but frightened Qin Zhuo, the Minister of Household Affairs, to the point of dumbfounding.

Zhao Yurui made a big move and the imperial court will have a lot less income this year.

However, Zhao Yurui's income from the Song Dynasty now far exceeds that of previous dynasties, which is also within the range that Zhao Yurui can bear. In addition, the Bo Ni Kingdom was just conquered last year, and the court made another fortune.

On September 10th, Zhao and Rui held a cabinet meeting, mainly to see how much income would be lost this year and how much income there would be.

Qin Zhuo, the Minister of Household Affairs, began to report last year's income and today's expected expenditure income.

At the end of the Baoqing year, in the Song Dynasty under Zhao and Rui, there were more than 13,000 officials in the country, and the annual salary was about 7 million guan. The national army was less than 900,000, and the annual military expenditure was about 40 million guan. There were nearly 200,000 official staff and more than 40 million guan in salaries. These were the three largest personnel expenditures at that time. Together with other various expenses of nearly 50 million guan, the total expenditure in the eight years of Baoqing was 140 million guan. It also shocked everyone in the cabinet at the time. If they hadn't happened to destroy the Jin Kingdom, snatched half of Xixia from Mongolia, and then raided these two countries, Zhao and Rui would have been barely even.

At that time, Zhao Yurui's Song Dynasty's annual income was only 150 million guan, and its expenditure reached 140 million guan, which was almost negative.

Fortunately, he conquered the Jin Kingdom and gained half of Xixia. He confiscated more than 200 million yuan successively and became rich in one fell swoop.

Now seven or eight years have passed, and by the seventh year of Yuanzhen last year, the situation across the country was different again.

"As of the end of last year (at that time, we had not yet obtained Shanxi and Hebei, but we had obtained Tubo, Chagatai, Tuo Lei, Wokuotai and others' fiefdoms), our Song Dynasty had an area of ​​about 11.2 million square meters - —Kilometers—" Qin Zhuo came up and said a new word.

After saying that, he glanced at the emperor, and then explained to the cabinet: "One kilometer, about two miles."

"One square kilometer, about fifteen hundred acres."

Liu Kezhuang, the Minister of Rites, had a strange expression on his face: "What do you mean roughly? Qin Shangshu, your Majesty has long said that the scale issue must be unified across the country. One mile is one mile, and one kilometer is one kilometer. How do you call it roughly?"

Qin Zhuo's face turned red and he didn't know how to explain it.

Because one mile in the Song Dynasty was different from one mile in later generations, Zhao and Rui did not change it, so they counted it as one mile in the Song Dynasty.

Then add one kilometer, square kilometers.

Moreover, it is very troublesome to measure the area in this era, so these numbers are approximate and there are bound to be errors.

The reason why Zhao Yurui raised the issue of area was to show how many times his Song Dynasty was larger than before.

Qin Zhuo thought for a while and said directly: "These standards were just proposed by the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Works." (Actually, they were proposed by Zhao Yurui)

“It will be rolled out nationwide in the future.”

"Because it has just been launched, it is inevitable that it will not be very accurate, but the error will not be too big. Liu Shangshu should not dwell on this issue."

"I will explain briefly before His Majesty ascends the throne."

Having said this, Qin Zhuo straightened his back a lot, with a proud expression on his face: "The area of ​​our Song Dynasty is about two million square kilometers."

"Now, coupled with the newly acquired Shanxi and Hebei, the number has increased more than six times compared to before."

"Hiss" is as the saying goes, you don't know if you don't compare. Just now everyone just listened to the numbers and it was not obvious. Now when they compare the before and after, they all gasp.

It had been sixteen or seventeen years since Zhao Yurui ascended the throne, and the land area of ​​the Song Dynasty had actually increased by more than six times.

When it comes to opening up territories in history, even if the first king of Qin to unify the world won the government, he would probably not be as good as Zhao and Rui.

"How big is the Song Dynasty now?" Even Wei Liaowen couldn't believe it.

"Everyone, come and see the map." Qin Zhuo directly led them to the map on the wall of Chui Gong Hall to look at it.

No matter what you say, it’s best to look at a map.

Zhao Yurui looked proud and felt happy when he saw Qin Zhuo helping him show off.

In terms of opening up new territories and inheriting military virtues, I must have surpassed the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty, and I couldn't help but feel complacent.

The ministers gathered around the map to look at it with great interest.

A lot of Mongolian territory in the past now belongs to the Song Dynasty. The entire Liaodong, plus Hai Sanwei's side, is even more huge.

Qin Zhuo also specifically pointed to the vicinity of Hai Sanwei: "There are no people here for thousands of miles. Because of the climate and terrain problems, our dynasty has not completely occupied it. We are gradually building the city and slowly devouring it. It will not take fifty years to all be included in our dynasty's rule." Next, the area will increase by several million square kilometers."

Some people can't help but calculate on their fingers. One square kilometer is 1,500 acres. How many acres are millions of square kilometers?
It turns out that besides the Song Dynasty, there is such a vast world.

Zhao Yurui also gradually encroached on the Far East region, and was not in a hurry to occupy it all.

The climate and terrain of that place were special, and there were forests everywhere, making walking difficult. Zhao Yurui built medium-sized cities every hundred miles or so, and large fortresses every thirty miles, and then immigrated, gradually occupying the Far East.

Each city requires 10,000 households and 3,000 soldiers.

A fortress houses one thousand households, one battalion, and five hundred soldiers.

From when they occupied Vladivostok to now, so many years have passed. Zhao and Rui have only built three cities and eleven bastions in the Far East, occupying less than one-tenth of the land.

So when Qin Zhuo said it would take fifty years, he said it would be less than that. The main construction of cities and fortresses was a bit inefficient and consumed a lot of manpower and material resources.

Fortunately, the imperial court specifically recruited migrant workers from Korea, and most of them were Koreans.

"Is this place also ours?" Many cabinet ministers have never been overseas. At this time, they saw senior officials from Hainan, Hanzhou (Philippines), Borneo (Wenlai Yinni), and even Singapore and the Persian Gulf. A small area was occupied nearby, and everyone realized that unknowingly, the Song Dynasty had occupied a place thousands of miles away.

"This is not thousands of miles away from Lin'an, right?" Huang Zhen pointed to the Peace City built on the Persian Gulf.

The Song Army built Peace City near the Persian Gulf more than a year ago. It has not yet been completed, and docks, shipyards and other buildings are still being built nearby.

Huang Zhen looked at the map and felt that it was at least about 10,000 miles away from Lin'an.

Unexpectedly, Qin Zhuo smiled and said, "To be precise, it's more than 20,000 miles."

"Hiss!" The scene was once again filled with astonishment, and many ministers couldn't believe it.

In the past ten years, Zhao and Rui first attacked and destroyed the Jin Kingdom, then took back Xixia, and now they have successfully completed the Northern Expedition. All their achievements are amazing in their eyes, but compared with occupying a piece of land more than 20,000 miles away, these achievements are nothing. The cabinet thought it was even more dire.

Of course, some people may think that what is the use of occupying a piece of land more than 20,000 miles away?

It also requires a huge amount of manpower and material resources.

Qin Zhuo seemed to know that someone would think so, and immediately pointed here and said: "We call this place the Persian Gulf, and it is the most important outlet for Persia."

"If Persian ships want to go to sea, this is the only way. If ships from outside want to enter Persia for business, they must also go here."

Everyone stared at the map for a few times, as if this was what happened.

"We are now setting up a port fort there to collect charges."

"Last year, we collected more than 3 million yuan in commercial taxes and tolls alone."

"We stationed 3,000 troops there last year. We spent more than one million guan on military expenses and living expenses, including city construction and other expenses. We made about double the profit."

"But making money is secondary. Even if you lose money, as long as you stay at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, the effect will be extremely huge."

All countries in Central Asia and even West Asia have to go here if they want to do business.

The Suez Canal has not been dug yet. Even Turkey (now called the Sultanate of Roma) in later generations has to go through the Persian Gulf if they want to do business at sea.

Of course, the Sultanate of Roma is still relatively far from the Persian Gulf. You don’t have to go by sea. If you go by land, you can do business with Mongolia and pay money to Mongolia. As long as you go by sea, you have to pay money and taxes to Song Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)