Chao Yong led his troops to patrol the grassland road. On August 1, they went south from the Hulunbuir grassland, took Hedong, and went south from Hebei to Bianjing.
A few days after Chao Yong set off from Hulunbuir, a major event happened in the Kingdom of Jin. Wanyan Aguda died of illness, and Wanyan Wu begged to succeed him. Wanyan Gao was promoted to Banbo Jilie (Crown Prince), and Wanyan Aguda was the eldest son.
Wanyan Zongqian served as Khulu Bojilie (prime minister), Wanyan Zonghan, and Wanyan Zongwang became prime minister of the military affairs.
The Kingdom of Jin also sent envoys to Daliang to express condolences.
When he arrived at Yanshan Mansion on Hebei Road, Chao Yong received a gold medal urgent report.
After reading the official document, Chao Yong couldn't help laughing and said: "Sure enough, we are not a peaceful nation."
On the side, Shi Yong asked curiously: "Which nation dares to invade our Daliang?"
Chao Yong smiled and said: "It is Japan, which claims to be the land of the rising sun, that dares to let international students spy on our Daliang Gunpowder Bureau."
He originally wanted to wipe out Japan and solve the shortage of gold and silver in Daliang, but he didn't expect that Japan would find an excuse for him so quickly and save him from causing trouble.
Shi Yong was shocked and said: "The Gunpowder Bureau is our forbidden area in Daliang. If the Japanese spy on the Gunpowder Bureau, aren't they afraid that I, Daliang, will send troops to destroy them?"
"This is a crazy nation. There is nothing they dare not do. Or maybe they think the sea can stop us."
Chao Yong had never had a good impression of this nation and was not prepared to leave a way out for them. He immediately wrote a letter and had it delivered to the capital with a gold medal.
Within a few days, the imperial court announced that Japan would send agents to spy on the Daliang Gunpowder Bureau and arrest all Japanese in the territory. The next year, Daliang would send troops to wipe out Japan.
After this news was announced, all countries that wanted to spy on the gunpowder formula of Daliang canceled their operations for fear of causing national annihilation.
On September 10th, Chao Yong returned to Bianjing and went on an expedition to Banshi for five months.
On the day they entered the city, the city was still full of civil and military personnel who came out to greet him. They didn't think that the prince had expanded the territory this time and how much land he had acquired for Daliang. In their opinion, the north of the desert was a barbaric frontier land. But the prisoners of Liao Dynasty
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Yanxi, this is an achievement worthy of celebration by the whole country. For more than two hundred years, the Liao Kingdom has been pressing on the Song Dynasty. Although it is called a country of brothers, the Song Dynasty has to pay tribute to the Liao Kingdom, which is two years old in the Central Plains.
A century of shame has finally been avenged.
This time the prisoner presentation ceremony was even more grand. After three days of carnival throughout the city, Bianjing returned to its usual rhythm.
After Chao Yong led his troops to the expedition, the Central Plains was not peaceful either.
After the vigorous extermination of religions, different droughts occurred in the north of the Yangtze River. Especially in Shandong, Hebei, Anhui, and Jiangsu, many places were almost completely devoid of crops. Many magicians took the opportunity to spread rumors, saying that natural disasters were punishments from gods and Buddhas.
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Fortunately, the intelligence department and spies are all over the place. Once they find those who are misleading the public, they will all be arrested and executed in public.
Thousands of heads frightened people with evil intentions, and also made people in Jiangnan who wanted to hoard them give up their minds.
There is a drought in the north of the Yangtze River, but the weather is smooth in the south of the Yangtze River, and no businessman dares to stir up trouble. The price of grain in Daliang has not seen major fluctuations.
The imperial court did not buy grain on a large scale. In the second year of Tianqi, there was a bumper harvest in autumn. In order to stabilize grain prices, the imperial court purchased a large amount of grain. Although the Liquor Bureau consumed a lot of grain, the imperial court's Changping warehouse still had a large amount of grain in stock. Tokyo Grain
As soon as the price fluctuated, the imperial court opened Changpingcang to suppress the price of grain. If there were big businessmen joining forces,
Cooperate in market making. Purchasing the grain stocks released by the court may also raise the price of grain. But the butcher knife of Daliang is always raised. No one dares to take risks, so the court maintains the stability of grain prices without much effort.
Nursing homes and Anjiyuan even allocated large amounts of food to ensure that people everywhere could receive relief without having to leave their homes.
The imperial court also sent a large number of censors to patrol various places to prevent officials from focusing only on political achievements and ignoring the people, and turning natural disasters into disasters.
After the prisoner presentation ceremony, Chao Yong rested in the palace of the Crown Prince, leaving Lin Chong and Lu Junyi to handle the affairs of the Ministry of War.
After resting in the Taixue's womb for half a month, Chao Yong went to Taixue and began to teach physics.
Compared with mathematics, the teachers and students of Taixue are more interested in physics. Almost everyone signed up to participate in Prince's physics class. In the end, Taixue could only select 200 students based on credits as the first batch of students to study physics.
Using interesting experiments to reveal the inner laws of things, the teachers and students of Taixue quickly fell in love with this novel knowledge after being exposed to physics.
After entering October, Chao Yong's life became busy.
In the morning, he gave lectures at the Imperial College, in the afternoon he went to the Ministry of War to serve as a director, and in the evening he worked hard in the Imperial Palace.
"Dad, Bing, Bing."
Chao Yong was still sleeping soundly with Hu Sanniang in his arms, when Chao Feng ran in, pointing outside and dancing.
When Hu Sanniang saw her daughter barging in, she couldn't help but blush. She pushed Chao Yong away and said, "Keep your voice down, don't wake up my brother."
Chao Feng and Chao Hongwen both lived in the pavilion behind Ruizhu Hall. They went to bed early at night and often got up at dawn.
Chao Feng smiled and said: "My brother is also awake."
"Father, mother."
While he was talking, Chao Hongwen also stumbled in, his little face flushed with cold, followed by the palace maid who bent over to protect him.
Chao Hongwen was the prince born to Hu Sanniang, but it was Chao Yong who got this name.
After Chao Gai named Chao Yong's eldest son and daughter Chao Long and Chao Feng, he felt that he couldn't think of any good names, so he gave the right to name them back to Chao Yong.
When Hu Sanniang saw Chao Hongwen's red face from the cold, she couldn't help but stretched out her hand in distress and said: "Hongwen, come and warm yourself up."
When Hu Sanniang moved, her plump breasts were exposed to the air.
Chao Hongwen, who had not yet been weaned, ran over immediately.
Chao Yong also stretched out his hand and said to Chao Feng who was on the ground: "Come, daddy will hug you."
When Chao Feng saw his younger brother going to bed, he also joined in the fun and ran onto the bed and got into bed.
The two of them got into bed with their cold bodies, making Hu Sanniang shiver involuntarily.
Chao Yong hugged Chao Feng and said with a smile: "Is the ground frozen?"
Chao Feng shook his little head like a rattle and said, "No, it's because the trees are frozen."
The weather this year is colder than in previous years. Chao Yong asked strangely to the palace maid who had not yet retreated: "Isn't it snow?"
The palace maid respectfully said: "No, it's a string of ice skates. It rained last night and then turned into ice."
Hu Sanniang hugged Chao Hongwen and said, "Yu Mubing, it seems that this winter will be even colder."
Chao Yong nodded and said: "Cotton has been promoted in the past two years. I hope no one will freeze to death this year."
When Chao Yong led troops to resist Xixia in the first year of Tianqi, he discovered cotton in the northwest, and then promoted cotton cultivation in the Central Plains. In addition, the imperial court also promoted various technologies, and cotton clothes and cotton cloth have become popular in Daliang. The cotton cloth is thick and the price is relatively low.
Silk is cheap and very popular with ordinary people. (To be continued)