Shen Kuo was a self-taught scientist who had achieved great success in mathematics, geography, astronomy, calendar, and natural science.
This was the great fortune of the Song Dynasty, but it was not used properly by the rulers.
Zhao Xu was glad that there was Shen Kuo in this era. Otherwise, he would have to use a huge amount of points to summon a scientist and delay his path to dominance in the Song Dynasty.
The musket that he had exchanged from the system had been improved by the clever Shen Kuo. Whether it was the firing mechanism, the gunpowder, or the metal bullets that were fired, it was much more advanced than the original musket.
Even the speed of reloading ammunition had doubled. Previously, it would take three minutes to reload once. Now, it could reload twice in three minutes. Moreover, the distance of the attack had increased to 280 meters. It was no longer like an arrow at the end of its flight. Instead, it had great lethality.
If they were to face each other, the might of the musket would make the enemy tremble in fear.
After many battlefield tests, the latest version of the musket was already very powerful. The Khitans ran away as soon as they saw the musket soldiers charging over.
Two hundred and eighty meters, tens of thousands of muskets, and finally two hundred thousand, the Khitans would have a hard time.
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After the lively Spring Festival, the Song Empire welcomed a new year. Winter passed and spring came. All things revived, and the new year began after the Lantern Festival.
With the arrival of the new year, the implementation of the Green Crops Law had been very smooth. Every state and county was issuing green crops loans in an orderly manner. Farmers were naturally happy to take out such low-interest loans, seeds, and even rented cattle from the government.
There were no more farmers who were absolutely impoverished. Some bandits who had fallen into the mountains had quietly turned over a new leaf and returned home to farm. This was because according to the Baojia Law, it was already very difficult for bandits to rob villages.
On the other hand, the bandit's lair was raided by the government every few days, and the fighting strength of the prefectural army was no longer the same.
The current prefectural armies were no longer the soldiers that were bought through the recruitment system. Instead, it was a conscription system. Those who were determined to make contributions would charge forward for the Great Song Empire.
In Shandong Province, where the banditry was the most serious, half of the bandits on Liangshan had already left the mountain. The government had also followed the policy of the court to let bygones be bygones. Unless the murderer had to pay with his life, they would not pursue the matter.
Most of these bandits had joined the army, and more than half of them had continued to be bandits because of murder cases.
As for those who continued to be bandits, Zhao Xu appointed Zheng Jimin, the commander of the Infantry Capital, as the governor of the bandit suppression. He would be in charge of the bandit suppression in the country.
Wherever they went, they could control all the prefectural armies to make the whole country a game of chess. They would no longer let the jurisdiction become an excuse for the various prefectures and counties to shirk responsibility.
Zheng Jimin was from Songzhou. He had been practicing martial arts since he was young. He was tall, had a white square face, curly hair, a sparse beard, and amazing arm strength. He was good at using a spiked club and had the courage to fight ten thousand men.
Compared to Xu Feng, the commander of the imperial guards and the military, Zheng Jimin was better at using his brain in battle. He was a Confucian general. Although his face was pale and somewhat scholarly, he was a desperate man in battle. He never took prisoners and would kill them after they were captured.
In the second year of Xining, Zhao Xu adopted the famous national policy of resisting foreign aggression before stabilizing the country. He had to first eliminate the bandits, at least not to let them stir up trouble. Moreover, he had to eliminate the worries in the future. Zhao Xu ordered the current Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Xu Feng, to lead his men into Jiaozhi and drive them far away.
After all this was done, Qingming had arrived. Zhao Xu was thinking about the strategy of attacking Liao every day, as well as various marching plans. Yue Fei and Qi Jiguang also provided their opinions through memorials.
The Liao Kingdom was too big compared to the Western Xia Kingdom. The Mongolian Kingdom was thousands of miles away from the Kievan Duchy in the northeast. A part of the Hebei Road and a part of the Shanxi Road were all part of the Liao Kingdom's territory. The population exceeded six million and they occupied two hundred cities. It could be said that all the people were soldiers because they were nomadic.
If he wanted to take down the entire Liao Kingdom, he had to plan for the entire situation and be careful.
The more prepared they were, the greater the chances of victory. The more they thought about it, the more solid their strategy would be. The frequency of small-scale battles would reveal the true combat strength of the Liao soldiers.
Taking down the Liao Kingdom meant that they would have to face the entire population of the Liao Kingdom. It would not be easy to govern the country, so they had to be on guard at all times. Zhao Xu was not in a hurry, he had plenty of time. Now that the reform had just begun, it was fundamental to let the Great Song accumulate a huge and overwhelming force.
Zhao Xu had absolute confidence in defeating the Liao Kingdom and taking back the sixteen states of the Dark Cloud Country. He even considered destroying the Liao Kingdom. With Yue Fei and Qi Jiguang around, Ye Lui Dashi and Ye Lui Hongji would not be a problem.
Time passed quickly. Spring went and summer arrived. After eating the realgar wine and the Dragon Boat Festival rice dumplings, the weather began to get hotter day by day.
The national treasury was also increasing every day, and the work of measuring land was carried out in an orderly manner. As the land was measured, they attacked the landlord. There were also some rebellious landlord, but under the intimidation of Emperor Zhao Xu's merciless killing, most of the landlord still chose to resign to fate and hand over the land to ensure peace.
There was only one place where a large family refused Zhang Juzheng's measurement.
The descendants of Chai Shizong are Chai Gen.
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