Therefore, throughout the entire Northern Song Dynasty, the navy hardly appeared, except for the appearance of the Pinghai Navy during the Maritime Alliance.
After Zhao Jun developed the trade with Japan and Goryeo, he began to prepare to establish a naval force. He built three navies in Donglai, Shandong, Tongzhou, Huainan, and Cangzhou, Hebei, namely the Shandong Pinghai Navy, the Huainan Zhenhai Navy, and the Hebei Dinghai Navy.
Today's navy is not the same as before. In addition to the naval soldiers, the ships are equipped with cannons, like the side cannons in the Caribbean, and even main guns on the front.
This greatly enhanced the combat effectiveness of the navy. When the Liao Kingdom had almost no naval strength, the three fleets of the Song Dynasty were almost rampant in the Bohai Sea, the Yellow River, the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan, and no one could compete with them.
Zhao Jun’s next step is to build another fleet in the South China Sea to ensure the safety of shipping on the Maritime Silk Road.
However, now a large number of merchants have appeared to evade taxes. Instead of selling goods to the Liao Kingdom from the border city of Cangzhou in the Song Dynasty, they directly transported goods from Japan and Goryeo to the Liao Kingdom. In addition, corruption has occurred in the naval fleet. This is a serious problem.
This means that the fleet is corrupted and its combat effectiveness is reduced, which is a major threat to dominating the ocean. Zhao Jun naturally will not allow this to happen.
He finished reading the document and said with a serious face, "This problem is still very serious. The supervision force at sea is still inadequate. Once the ships go out to sea, they lose contact with the mainland. If the entire ship is in collusion and makes a fortune outside, the court will have no control over them."
"yes."
Li Di shook his head and said, "I wonder how much tax revenue the court will lose because of this."
"What a shame! We still need to build a scientific system as soon as possible so that we can figure out electromagnetism. Then we can figure out how to send telegraphs."
Zhao Jun sighed and said, "I'm still too busy right now. Furthermore, from inventing electricity to developing the telegraph and finally radio waves, I'm afraid it will take a long time to research. I can't devote myself to it so wholeheartedly."
"Everything is difficult at the beginning. What the Song Dynasty lacks is a complete scientific system. Once the basic knowledge of mathematics, physics, and chemistry is popularized in the Song Dynasty and a complete system is formed, these things will become much easier."
Yan Shu said something comforting.
"Um."
Zhao Jun responded, then suddenly said, "This document says that what Japan sent to Liao was basically sulfur?"
"yes."
Li Di said, "Since the end of last year, the Liao Kingdom has gone crazy and started buying up large quantities of sulfur at high prices. The price of sulfur has been rising day by day, and the amount of sulfur shipped back to our country has decreased significantly."
Zhao Jun touched his chin and smiled suddenly: "This is a good thing."
"Is this a good thing?"
Yan Shu said speechlessly: "We are almost running out of our own gunpowder."
"Arrange someone to sell them the complete black powder formula at a high price, so that the Liao Kingdom can continue to purchase sulfur."
Zhao Jun laughed.
"ah?"
Li Di was shocked and asked, "Hanlong, how can this be possible?"
"OK."
Zhao Jun explained, "This is draining Liao's national strength. It's an arms race. They're pouring all their resources into developing firearms, so isn't that reducing their national strength? Meanwhile, our Song Dynasty is thriving. This makes it more likely that we'll destroy Liao in the future."
Yan Shu had heard him say that the gunpowder formula could be sold to the Liao Kingdom in the future, but Li Di didn't know that.
He wondered, "If the Liao Kingdom also develops firearms like ours, then we won't be able to fight them anymore, right?"
"Who said that?"
Zhao Jun laughed and said, "The arms race is about who can develop better weapons first. The question is, do they have qualified steel? Minié bullets? Granulated gunpowder? Their firearms will always be inferior to those of the Song Dynasty. By the time they've developed these, the Song Dynasty might even have developed yellow gunpowder. Why should we be afraid of them?"
The industrial age crushed the agricultural age through advanced science, and even within industry there are differences in levels.
Now the Song Dynasty has initially entered the first industrial revolution. Zhao Jun's two epoch-making steel smelting technologies have enabled them to achieve super-fast steelmaking efficiency.
As a result, the Song Dynasty would experience explosive growth in steel production, while the Liao Dynasty was still in the agricultural era. Even if it had a complete formula for black gunpowder and muskets and cannons, the quality, range, power and quantity were far inferior to those of the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, Zhao Jun was never afraid that the Liao Kingdom would also develop firearms. Instead, he hoped that the Liao Kingdom would do so.
Because only when Song and Liao entered the arms race period, the Liao Dynasty's national strength would be consumed heavily in the military, which would not benefit the people's livelihood.
As long as the technology of the Song Dynasty always remains ahead of that of the Liao Dynasty, then the comprehensive development of people's livelihood, economy, military, etc. will always keep the Liao Dynasty at a disadvantage, and the Liao Dynasty will never be stronger than the Song Dynasty militarily.
To a certain extent, Zhao Jun was forcing the Liao Kingdom to focus on military affairs.
They had to let go. If they didn't, the Song Dynasty's military would only continue to grow stronger. The Liao Kingdom would still maintain its original cold weapon tactics, and sooner or later it would be blown to pieces by the Song Dynasty's artillery, grenades, and muskets.
Therefore, this can be considered an open conspiracy and the best way to weaken the Liao Kingdom.
Now that the Liao Kingdom has slowly figured out a nearly complete formula for black gunpowder, it would be better to maximize profits while we still have time, sell the complete formula to the Liao Kingdom at a high price, and squeeze out the last of its profits.
Anyway, whole black powder is not the most powerful, so you can add egg white to granulate the black powder.
At that time, while the Song Dynasty has developed better in the past few years and people have more food such as corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes to feed their people, they can raise more chickens and ducks. They can buy more chicken and duck eggs, stockpile granular black gunpowder, and mass-produce steel cannons and muskets.
The Liao Kingdom is still doomed.
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