Chapter 300 I Really Don’t Want to Leave You
of course!

Things like capturing the Japanese emperor did not necessarily mean the war was over.

after all……

Japan is a mountainous country. If they cannot defeat the enemy, some people will just go up the mountains and become bandits. Therefore, at this time, Zhao Xi could only control the plains in the northern part of Kyushu Island and the plains in the Gyeonggi area.

Like the mountains around, it mainly depends on whether the local forces will take the initiative to surrender.

If the other party does not surrender, then Zhao Xi will have no choice.

In the Kyoto area of ​​Japan, 150,000 to 200,000 nobles, wealthy businessmen, and civilians were all frightened by the army of the Song Dynasty.

And taking down Kyoto is just the beginning.

After all, if you want to rule stably, you need a large number of officials.

The key point is that you still don’t know whether there are people here who are pretending to surrender and then waiting for an opportunity to assassinate you.

to this end……

Considering that this place is not very safe to be honest.

Zhao Xi then took the emperor, nobles, their wives and other relatives back to Kyushu Island.

Discuss with your subordinates.

Japan’s terrain is often fragmented, so the best way to manage it is to let the local people manage it directly, and they can collect taxes directly from the local people.

of course!

They can also appoint some of their own people to carry out supervision.

Anyway…

If you want to move the capital to Kyoto, I can only say that the time is not yet ripe.

Just let one person control a few to a dozen manor owners. In this way, just control those who can be controlled.

The most important thing is to collect taxes.

In order to prevent the other party from rebellion, their families can be sent to Kyushu Island.

at the same time……

As for marriage, it’s not impossible.

There are also quite a few bachelors in the Li Yuan Army. In the beginning, they ran away to follow Zhao Xi to join the army because they had too many people in their families and had no land to support so many people. Now, it is time for them to have children.

Give everyone two wives!
They should have more children. Nowadays, they are facing serious population shortage.

Anyway…

Captured a large number of women.

As for Emperor Shirakawa, considering that the emperor is still quite sacred in the hearts of the Japanese people.

Killing him directly doesn’t feel that good.

and so……

Zhao Xi also considered sending the other party back to Youzhou City and letting his father deal with it.

But the most likely thing is that they will find a place and lock him up until he dies.

……

This year.

The Japan controlled by Zhao Xi was actually just Kyushu Island and the Gyeonggi Plain area.

In addition…

Plus some remote places that surrendered voluntarily.

So strictly speaking, it was not the complete occupation of Japan.

and……

Even the Nobi Plain was not occupied. This was the starting point for Oda Nobunaga’s later conquest of the world, and it still had considerable potential for war.

Japan’s real strength lies in a few plains and the forces built on these plains.

therefore……

They still have a long way to go.

The Kanto Plain had not yet been developed at this time, but the Osaka Plain and the Nobi Plain in the Gyeonggi area had to be well controlled in our own hands.

and so……

The next year, Zhao Xi had to conquer the Nobi Plain again while persuading the enemy to surrender.

at the same time……

Ask Zhao Xin for more people.

to fill these places.

As for Japan’s population at that time.

can only say……

After all this turmoil, the population is certain to be halved.

But there is no other way!

After all, it was they who were unwilling to hand over their own land in the first place.

During the past two or three years, Zhao Xin also gathered another 30,000 men for Zhao Xi and sent them over.

Relocating entire households was later discovered to be a bit impractical.

After all, there are old people, children, and women, and there are many inconveniences on the road.

It would be quicker to just pack up the illegitimate sons and bachelors and send them over.

at the same time……

There is also the desire to allow these men to marry, have children and settle down in the local area.

After Kyushu Island was destroyed in the Gyeonggi region, it was obvious that at this moment, it had become the only place in Japan where life was relatively peaceful and all industries were relatively prosperous.

It’s a pity that the plain area on Kyushu Island is still too small, otherwise, it is not impossible to use it as a capital.

Let’s just make do with it for now.

When we can live in relative harmony with the old nobles of Japan, marry their daughters, and both sides reach a certain understanding, then we can consider moving the capital to the Gyeonggi region.

When talking about the capital of this country, it must be placed in the center.

Only in this way can we rule the four directions.

Staying in Kyushu Island now can only be considered a temporary solution.

Fortunately…

Today’s Japan is still basically a ‘unified country’.

If it were the Warring States Period, it would not necessarily be possible to “conquer the world.”

But even so…

In the far northern region of Japan, some landowners were still reluctant to submit to the Song Dynasty.

They even accepted refugees and nobles who had fled there, and some of them wanted to join forces to fight against the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Xi also sent people to keep an eye on the developments in the north.

If you resist again, I will kill you all and exterminate your entire clan.

And at the same time…

On the Song Dynasty side.

The Dali Kingdom finally gave the Song Dynasty an opportunity to attack.

The cause was that seven years ago, a man named Yang Yizhen launched a coup in Dali Kingdom and killed the king of Dali Kingdom.

Then the coup was put down by a father and son named Gao Zhisheng and Gao Shengtai.

After the king died, it was natural to appoint another king. Unfortunately, the king had no son, so the father and son appointed the king’s nephew, named Duan Shouhui, as the king.

But Duan Shouhui was very afraid of death, and was very wary of the two father and son who supported him.

therefore……

After many twists and turns, he sent people to find the Song Dynasty to see if he could borrow the power of the Song Dynasty.

As a result, the matter was discovered, and Gao Zhisheng and Gao Shengtai, father and son, caused each other to fall into the water and drown.

Of course, it was caused by accident.

Immediately afterwards…

So they found another emperor, who was the former’s cousin Duan Zhengming.

But no matter what, these two people caused the former to fall into the water and drown, which constituted the crime of regicide.

to this end……

Zhao Xin also asked Kumamoto, who was familiar with the local situation, to lead 20,000 troops into Dali Kingdom to rescue the people of Dali Kingdom.

Kumamoto was a person who would try his best to avoid killing if he could persuade people to surrender.

therefore……

This time, the attack on Dali Kingdom did not cause too many civilian casualties in the local area.

finally……

When the other side had “no successor” and “no one wanted to be emperor”, the Duan family of the Dali Kingdom in Yunnan, which had been passed down for more than ten generations, chose to become monks and offered the affiliation of the Dali Kingdom to the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Xin rewarded the descendants of Duan generously, and then sent his second batch of eldest sons to garrison in the local area and take over local affairs.

in fact……

The Dali Kingdom was not bad either.

The development is quite good, but there are too many ethnic minorities, so the ethnic conflicts may be a bit serious.

The nineteenth year of Li Yuan.

This year……

The territory of the Song Dynasty could no longer be described as large, but rather huge. The literati were already numb to such territorial expansion.

mainly……

If this is what the government wants to do, then what is impossible to do?
The Qin Emperor, Han Wudi, Tang Taizong, and even Song Taizu were no more than this.

Speaking of which…

Song Zu should be the worst among these people.

However, the appearance of Zhao Xin can save some face for the Song Dynasty.

The nineteenth year of Li Yuan.

The culture of the Song Dynasty is even more prosperous than ever before.

and……

The novel industry is also booming at this moment.

Words come to mind easily.

Like his teacher’s son Yan Jidao, and Li Zhiyi.

These people are all very famous.

of course!

Since there are so many excellent people, it is difficult to say who is number one.

But this makes people wonder, there are too many entertainment things, isn’t it too extravagant and corrupt?
can only say……

Zhao Xin sometimes has to worry like this.

on the grassland.

There are also many entertaining things after they are communicated and spread.

For example, football.

It spread first to the army and then to the herdsmen.

After more than ten years of development, Youzhou City has become more prosperous than it was at the beginning.

It has become the second Bianliang.

This year……

Zhao Xin is forty-three years old.

And Crown Prince Zhao Zhe has also reached the age of thirty.

But is there any prince in the world who can serve for 19 years?

Yes!

Nineteen years have passed since he was named Crown Prince.

It seems that I can’t always occupy the official position like this.

If he waits until Zhao Zhe is forty or even fifty years old to succeed to the throne, what’s the point?

therefore……

From a personal perspective, Zhao Xin actually wanted to abdicate.

But Zhao Xin was also very clear that once he chose to abdicate, he would no longer have real power.

If something happens at that time, it probably won’t be something he can control.

and so……

Now, he could only claim to be sick and not attend court, hide in the palace and sleep in, and then let Zhao Zhe go to court on his behalf.

As for Chen Yuanyuan and other concubines.

Now that I’m older, I don’t like having sex anymore.

However, Zhao Xin liked to rest his head on their thighs and listen to them reading memorials for him.

This is more comfortable and saves trouble.

And it was the nineteenth year of Li Yuan.

Steamships also began to be experimented with at sea.

Currently, test voyages are being carried out in Dengzhou and Laizhou areas.

Next…

It should be applied to Japan and North Korea.

In fact, steamships have a special feature.

That is, the bigger the ship is, the more cost-effective it is. Therefore, current steam ships are also being researched in the direction of being as large as possible.

Traditional wood is no longer enough.

The interior of the ship had to be reinforced with steel.

even……

If electric welding had not been invented yet, steel battleships would probably have been made.

There has been some progress in the area of ​​electricity.

But it can be said that it is still a long way from large-scale application.

And the main thing is, without rubber, it’s difficult to insulate the wires.

in fact……

Zhao Xin had thought about whether he should go through the northern part of Japan along that strait.

how to say!

Because Zhao Xin had read a small book from the 19th or 20th century, which said that a family of several people, including their son, from Ningbo or Fujian went to America on a small boat.

It can be said that traditional sailing technology is definitely the way to go.

only……

After all, Japan has not yet completely recovered, so it has not done so for the time being.

However, the reason why they were able to go there was because there were supplies along the way. After all, the 19th and 20th centuries were already considered modern times. Although the islands along the way were sparsely populated, there were some troops stationed there, and there were also people who arrived there for special purposes. If they did the same now, they would probably only be able to see savages, and that was if they were lucky.

If you are unlucky, you may only see a group of seabirds pooping all over the island.

can only say……

Get ready first!

And when there is a big reward, there will always be brave men.

If you give him a thousand strings of cash a year and reward him with ten thousand strings of cash if he can bring something back, then there will definitely be people willing to go.

This journey may be a life-threatening one.

After all, people in the 19th and 20th centuries may have even had nautical charts, but you don’t even have a nautical chart, so you can only explore it bit by bit on your own.

The key is which season is suitable for going out, which is not very clear at the moment.

You must first understand the direction of the local ocean currents.

Therefore, considering that going to America is extremely dangerous, and even if rubber and other things are brought back, it will take a lot of time to plant them, and the yield may not be very high.

Zhao Xin also asked people to use chemical methods to try to extract and synthesize from petroleum.

can only say……

I have already mastered some principles.

Then the diesel engine technology is gradually maturing nowadays.

It’s a pity that China’s oil resources are not very abundant.

The currently exploitable oil in the world is relatively easy to obtain and the yield is decent.

Probably only in Myanmar and the Arab region of the Middle East.

Yes!

Myanmar also has oil.

Japan once occupied and exploited it.

However, the quality and output are definitely not as good as those in the Middle East and Arab regions.

But at least it’s better than other areas.

therefore……

When he was 43 years old, Zhao Xin had to come up with a bold idea.

Why don’t I just lead my men to Europe?
If the Mongolians can go, I can definitely go too.

Zhao Xin also had his eldest son go on a western expedition.

They could even bring people to settle there.

After that, what else is he worried about what Westerners will do?
Just kill the opponent directly and you won’t be afraid.

The problem now is that he ran away again, what should Yuanyuan do?
Also, what should I do if the Zubu tribe, the Ugundilie tribe, the Jurchen tribe, and the Khitans refuse to follow me?
I have to think of a better reason to persuade them to go with me.

But there is a problem.

Such intense East-West exchange, if not handled properly, may accelerate Europe’s development.

In this way…

Perhaps Europe will develop faster than it has in history.

Thinking of this…

Zhao Xin sighed.

Yuanyuan, who was resting her head on Zhao Xin’s thigh, asked, “Why is the emperor sighing?”

Zhao Xin replied: “I really don’t want to leave you.”

(End of this chapter)