"Officials, what is the idea of ​​colonization? Who are you trying to do?"

Zhu Fengying stared at Shui Lingling's big eyes, staring at Zhao Kai who was not sure what bad ideas he was making, and asked anger.

And this question actually stopped Zhao Kai.

Yes, what is colonialism? This is not easy to explain!

Zhao Kai thought about it hard, and then explained to Zhu Fengying seriously: "Colonialism is an aggression policy for powerful countries to use various aggression methods to turn backward countries into their colonies, semi-colonies or vassal states!"

Zhu Fengying was confused when she heard this, blinked her eyes and looked at Zhao Kai, thinking: Is it really okay to have my sister? Don’t you be fooling me, right? Humph, I have to ask carefully!

"Official family, what is a colony? What is a semi-colonial?"

"This..." Zhao Kai thought about it again, "This is not easy to explain... The so-called colonies are actually divided into two types: pioneering colonies and invading colonies. The so-called pioneering colonies are immigrants and colonies in wilderness. Invading colonies occupy part or all the territory of other countries, and send a small number of immigrants, and rely on these immigrants to monopolize the country's military, government affairs, taxes, and specialties, and are used by the suzerain states."

"Isn't this just opening up the territory?" Zhu Fengying looked at Zhao Kai with suspicion, "Isn't the government's intention to steal the Xingling Yinxia and Yangshan land of the Western thieves in the past two years?"

"That's not colonialism," Zhao Kai glared at Zhu Fengying, who was talking nonsense, "That's regaining lost land! Xingling Yinxia and Yangshan have been the homeland of China since ancient times... I just regained there, not a colony! And Xingling Yinxia and Yangshan are my hometown of Song Dynasty, not a colony."

"What is local?" Zhu Fengying became a curious baby today and kept asking questions.

"The local area is..." Zhao Kai thought for a while, "It's the land of the ancestors!"

"The land of our ancestors?" Zhu Fengying became more and more confused as he heard it. "The land in the world is not something that is strong and powerful? The foundation passed down by our ancestors is everywhere. Isn't the country of the Song Dynasty also taken away by Emperor Taizu from others?"

Why is this woman constantly messing around?

Zhao Kai didn't know how to explain it to Zhu Fengying. Just when Zhao Kai was speechless, the woman's question arose again: "The official just said that the colonization idea was used by strong countries against backward countries. So, who is stronger than the Wu Kingdom?"

This is another difficult question to answer!

If it is better than military strength, there is no doubt that Zhao Kai's Northern Song Dynasty is stronger!

The number of troops in the Northern Song Dynasty has now expanded to more than 400,000, three times that of the Southern Song Dynasty army!

Although the Southern Song army was a regular army, the Northern Song army was a mansion soldier who took turns to serve, and the number of people in service was similar to that of the Southern Song army. However, most of the mansion soldiers of the Northern Song Dynasty came from Hebei, Hedong, Shaanxi and other places with strong military traditions. Moreover, the "Twelve Medals System" guided them to fight for land acquisition, so they were highly morale and were simply brave enough to fight, which was definitely not comparable to the mercenaries of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Moreover, the Northern Song Dynasty army had complete infantry, cavalry, artillery, and other troops. An artillery school was opened in Xuanwu City north of Ziwei Palace, which became the beginning of professional military education.

In addition, Luoyang's military handicraft industry, the military horse farm of the "Kaifeng Grassland", and the imperial horse farm of the Shangyang Palace (Qinghai Prefecture) have all developed relatively well under the efforts of Zhao Kai.

However, advanced and backward cannot only look at the military, let alone the army.

The Northern Song army could defeat the Southern Song Dynasty, but what about the Northern Song navy? The Northern Song navy was no longer a problem of being beaten by the Southern Song Dynasty. Even the Goryeo Navy, the Japanese Navy, and the Annan Navy could crush the Northern Song navy... because the Northern Song Dynasty was an inland country at all!

In addition to the last naval strength in the world (with all landlocked countries), the industry and commerce of the Northern Song Dynasty were actually significantly lagging behind that of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Especially in Yingtian Fourth Road, which was the foundation of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was basically no industry and commerce worth mentioning except Luoyang Military Industry, Hebei Iron Industry, Runan Porcelain Industry, and Jiezhou Salt Industry.

Jinghu Road among the two transshipment routes actually has no industry and commerce. It is a grain-producing area, and only one Hankou Town has developed well with the help of the trade between the Northern and Southern Song dynasties.

As for Sichuan's industry and commerce, it was very prosperous, but due to the difficulty of Shu Road, it was difficult for Sichuan's industry and commerce to expand outward, and it could not be compared with the coastal and river routes in the Southern Song Dynasty, including Liangjiang, Liangzhe, Fujian, Guangdong, Huaidong and other coastal routes... Moreover, no matter how Zhao Kai opened his golden finger, it could not change the reality that the Northern Song Dynasty's industry and commerce lag behind the Southern Song Dynasty in all.

Not to mention that most early capitalist countries were located in coastal areas with convenient transportation, in the 21st century, the number of economic centers in the world was only Moscow far from the sea.

Even the more Zhao Kai opened his golden fingers, the more rapid the industry and commerce in the Southern Song Dynasty might develop!

Because the current Southern and Northern Song Dynasty not only belongs to a civilization, but even to a country, there were only two emperors. Moreover, these two emperors were not completely opposite. Zhao Huan made Zhao Kai the crown prince, while Zhao Kai appointed Zhao Huan the King of Wu and recognized Zhao Chen as King of Jinling.

Therefore, the technical exchanges between the two Song dynasties of the north and the south were not interrupted. Moreover, in order to obtain financial support from the Southern Song Dynasty and avoid the Southern Song Dynasty being annexed by the Jin Dynasty, Zhao Kai also actively exported some black technologies (even if he did not actively export them, his black technologies that were not very black would still fall into the hands of the Southern Song Dynasty within a few years). Therefore, the industry and commerce of the Southern Song Dynasty could completely absorb Zhao Kai's black technologies and make itself develop faster and better!

For example, when two black technologies, "hot pot" and "fry pot", arrived in the Southern Song Dynasty, they were immediately loaded on warships and used to beat the Koreans!

Of course, it was nothing to beat the Korean people with "hot pot cannons" and "fried pots" in the Southern Song Dynasty... The problem is that they made profits in war!

And it's a huge profit!

And... Zhao Kai also knows how much benefits this first imperialism that can achieve "the boat is strong and the pot is profitable"!

Because the first imperialism to achieve "the boat is strong and the pot is profitable" is to make an invincible move!

Without the navy's "Ship is strong and the pot is strong", the Southern Song army could only shrink behind the Huaihe River defense line and had no offensive power at all... Before the "Ship is strong and the pot is strong" appeared, it would be difficult for the army without powerful cavalry to fight offensive operations.

But with the "ship is strong and the pot is good", the iron-clad army of the Southern Song Dynasty was able to take naval warships to attack other people's coastlines!

Not to mention that the Goryeo people could not stop them, they could not stop them even if they were Jurchens... Because the Southern Song Navy, which was "strong in the ships and powerful in the pot", could provide unparalleled mobility to the Southern Song Army, which was mainly armored infantry!

The Jin Kingdom has thousands of miles of coastline, and it is impossible to strictly guard it!

With the capacity of the Southern Song Navy and the Southern Song merchant ships, at least tens of thousands of infantry can be transported to the coast of the Jin-controlled area at one time... Of course, the Southern Song Dynasty may not know that it is so powerful now.

Thinking of this, Zhao Kai smiled bitterly and said to Zhu Fengying: "The Song Dynasty is powerful and backward, and the Wu Kingdom (Guide to the Southern Song Dynasty) is progressive and weak... As for the Jurchens, they can still be defended now, and maybe they can cross the Huai River to bully the Wu Kingdom, but they will not be powerful for too long! The future world depends on Luoyang and Jinling."

It sounds like this?

What is strong and backward?

What is progress and weakness?

In addition, the Golden Thieves are so powerful, why can't they do it?

Zhu Fengying looked at Zhao Kai with a suspicion on her face, and she was still very suspicious of the warlike and lustful official's idea of ​​his sister... The words just now were all used to divert attention!

Just when Zhu Fengying wanted to continue interrogating Zhao Kai, while Zhao Kai was worried that the Southern Song Dynasty was about to enter the threshold of the colonial empire. Guo Tiannu took the Privy Councilor He Guan and walked to the outside of the Zhenguan Hall. A female squad who was on duty outside the door rushed in and reported: "The official family, Liu Niangzi (Guo Tiannu is still using Liu Tiannu's name) has already brought He Yuanshu outside the hall."

Zhao Kai did not attend court today, but instead gave himself a big holiday on the excuse of his hard work (he had just returned from the northwest not long). As long as the government affairs were handled at the discretion of the two governments, the two governments could not decide, so the ministers of the two governments needed to enter the palace to ask for instructions. Due to frequent wars, the officials of the north and south Song dynasties have chosen to delegate power.

Zhao Huan started the "Two Saints Tongzhi" and asked the queen Zhu Lian to stay in Jinling to rule the country from behind when she left Zhenjiangdu.

On the other hand, the prime ministers of the two prefectures discussed politics. When he went to war, the left and right ministers of the East Prefecture plus the two Privy ministers of the West Prefecture, a total of four people discussed the matter. When encountering something that could not be reached, the four people raised their hands to vote. If the voting result was two to two, it would be decided depending on the situation to ask Zhao Kai, or to ask Queen Zhu Fengying to come out and preside over the draw of lots...

Now that He Guan entered the palace, it goes without saying that something must have happened to the four of them that could not be decided.

"Prince!"

Zhao Kai gave an order, and then smiled and said to Zhu Fengying, "Fengying, you can listen together... Your sister can rule the country from behind the curtain, but you can only draw lots."

"I will follow the order." Zhu Fengying said "follow the order", but thought to herself: You are indeed thinking about my sister!

Guo Tiannu quickly took his old man He Guan into Zhenguan Hall. After performing the rituals of the king and the ministers, Zhao Kai gave him another seat. After the seat, the old man He Guan took out a memorial submitted by Li Xiaozhong, deputy envoy of Shaanxi Pacification, and asked Guo Tiannu to hand it to Zhao Kai, and then said: "The official family, the Hexi army is likely to rebel!"

The Hexi Army was the Dangxiang people. It turned out that after Li Renli and Wanyan Xiebao arrived in Dunhuang, they continued to put pressure on Li Renxiao, the Hexi Army Jiedushi Cao Mian, the Hexi Army Jiedushi, and Li Renxiao's mother, Concubine Cao (Pingxi Princess), to force them to betray the Song Dynasty and restore the Great Bai Kingdom.

Although Cao Mian and Concubine Cao were unwilling to have a quarrel with the Song Dynasty, they were forced to rebel under the pressure of the Dangxiang tribe in exile in Dunhuang!

However, they also sent envoys to report to Lingzhou secretly, hoping to obtain understanding from the Song Dynasty.
Chapter completed!