Chapter 18
Chapter 18
The Song Dynasty was prosperous in all aspects, and the main thing was to improve the military strength. After Chang Ran ascended the throne, he began to implement his ideas steadily and slowly.
Changran's principle in proposing a plan is basically to start from adding new interest points. Those who can benefit will actively participate and become supporters of his plan. The old system will not be deleted or cut down on first. Once everyone benefits from the new plan, they will naturally come over and there will be much less pressure to delete or modify the old plan.
Chang Ran first formed his own private overseas trade team, which was second to none in terms of force and ship capacity. Others could hire the team for escort or purchase ships and blueprints.
Changran formed his own overseas trade team for the purpose of making money. No matter what he wanted to do, he needed money. If he used the money from the national treasury, he would be constrained by others, and discussions would prolong the time to complete things. If he used the money from his own private treasury, it would be very simple to do what he wanted. If everyone saw the benefits and had objections in the future, he could just take the project back to the state.
In addition, it is also for training. If I organize the troops to train, it will definitely provoke everyone's sensitive nerves. Now the establishment of an overseas trade escort can fight pirates, protect everyone's safety and increase profits, and by the way, it can also improve the combat capabilities of soldiers.
Then he used his own private treasury to open two martial arts schools, one for the children of officials and the other for the common people. There was no mandatory requirement for admission, and he would continue to select outstanding personnel for promotion and appointment, while expanding the overseas trade team. Gu Tingye and Yuan Wenshao were both admitted.
Then Changran built a cement factory, paved the roads around Bianjing, built water conservancy projects around the city, and built simple houses with cement as samples to show people how to use cement. He then opened cement factories in various places through caravans, promoted the product, and announced the cement formula, which could be used by everyone who wanted to use it, thus accelerating the promotion of cement.
In addition to improving military strength, the output of good seeds was increased, new positions were created to promote suitable candidates from redundant officials, so that those who were willing to do things could play their roles, and idle royal family members could find suitable things to do, so that people could be used to their full potential and the burden on the court could be reduced.
Chang Ran also set up his own supervisory intelligence agency to promptly deal with some extremely evil officials, confiscate their property and force them to serve in the army.
Political affairs are running smoothly, and Changran also has time to gossip about the current situation of everyone in the plot.
Qi Heng was forced to marry by Jiacheng County Lady. Due to Chang Ran's existence, Prince Yong's power was not as strong as in the plot. In addition, Prince Yong was reprimanded for Rong Feiyan's incident and his power was suppressed, so the matter did not come to fruition. In order to calm the impact of the incident as soon as possible, Princess Pingning agreed to Qi Heng marrying Sheng Minglan.
When Minglan first got married, she was often harassed by Princess Pingning. However, as Minglan became pregnant and her eldest grandson was born, Princess Pingning shifted her focus to her grandson, and Minglan's life gradually improved.
Aunt Kang had come several times, and Princess Pingning looked down on her. Besides, no matter how much she looked down on Minglan, she was still the mother of her grandson, so how could she let Aunt Kang bully her? And Minglan was not the kind of person who would let her manipulate her. If she didn't get any benefits, she would stop coming. She just often said bad things about Minglan to Wang Ruofu, and she didn't know if she would harm Old Madam Sheng.
Qi Heng is still a little naive and out of touch with reality. If you want to make good use of him, he needs to go out and gain some experience first.
After graduating from the Military Academy, Gu Tingye got an official position, but it was not as prominent as in the drama. He has not married yet and has been looking for his son who was taken away by Zhu Manniang. I can help him pass on this message so that he can work with peace of mind in the future.
Sheng Molan and Sheng Rulan married the same person in the same plot, and the story was pretty much the same.
Yuan Wenshao has been promoted now. Although he is not among the most respected people, his future is guaranteed. Accordingly, Hualan's life has also become better.
Zhang Guifen, a British lady, and General Zheng got married, and they are living a happy life now.
Now everyone is living well, and the national strength is also improving step by step. The next thing Chang Ran needs to consider is the training of successors, and the continuation of his own ideas.
Chang Ran showed the world map to the princes, the children of the royal family who accompanied them to school, and the children of the ministers, and encouraged them to go out and fight for their own territories, which aroused their desire for military power. To be honest, it was better to be overthrown by one's own people than by foreigners. At the same time, he analyzed the situation of the countries around the Song Dynasty with them, so that they would remain vigilant.
After the princes grew older, Chang Ran chose the most suitable candidate and abdicated. After abdicating, he left Bian Jing with his guards, visited various places, and finally followed the caravan to overseas. To be honest, Chang Ran is quite interested in the current overseas situation.
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