Cai Boyi's most intuitive change is the mentality of the people of the Song Dynasty. Although this thing is invisible and intangible, its existence can be felt personally.

The Song Dynasty has been quite competitive in the past two years. Not only will it not increase taxes, but it will also allow the people to live a good life. Why not do this?

This is how the war in the Song Dynasty was. Once it was launched, it would benefit everyone from the officials of the Tian family to the people and the people.

Everyone is a beneficiary, so naturally no one will object. Articles about the benefits of war appear in the civil or in the court, which was never possible before.

As the officials said, the innocent prostitutes in brothels and brothels have turned the definition of talented men and beautiful women from romance to evil spirits. Although it is "paper talk", this change in the atmosphere is a good thing.

Zhao Zhen needed talents, and at the same time, he needed to change the style of the Song Dynasty. The image of the weak Song people who were literary and literary needs to be subverted. Only passionate men can be called the strong man in this "jungle era".

The current rise of the Song Dynasty is to continuously conquer the four directions, continuously acquire more territory and more population.

The integration of nations will definitely happen. The history of China's growth is a history of war. Even if someone wants to oppose it and follows the absolute "Han supremacy" in the sense of absolute sense, it will be destroyed in history.

The so-called "Han supremacy" has appeared in the Song Dynasty. The continuous joining of foreign races has caused the population of the Song Dynasty to skyrocket. However, on the other hand, the integration of Han civilization and foreign civilization is also an imperative thing.

Intermarriage may be prohibited, but love will take root and sprout between different races. Slowly, those tribes that moved inward lived in the Song Dynasty for a long time, and they will unconsciously collide with the Han civilization. If there is a collision, there will be fusion.

The Han culture is inclusive, and thousands of years of history have proved this. Many foreign races did not disappear into the long river of history, but were swallowed up by the Han civilization.

Of course, there are still Han people in the pure sense, and after all, some people will care about this fusion and deliberately resist.

Zhao Zhen did not care about these things. In fact, he seldom interfered with the integration of nations. Whether intermarriage or not was not stipulated in the laws of the Song Dynasty, and it was entirely a matter between the various races.

Those who want intermarriage are naturally not a problem, and those who don’t want intermarriage will not force them. The only requirement of Zhao Zhen’s government offices in various places is to treat everyone equally and not favor partiality.

Although local protectionism will still emerge, Zhao Zhen's attitude can put pressure on local officials to a certain extent. No one dares to blatantly favor one side, and no one dares to risk the possibility of losing the future to humiliate foreigners.

What's more, no one knows that the harem of the official family is composed of women from foreign tribes, the Khitan queen mother, the Dangxiang queen mother, and even the queen of Japan.

After all, in the eyes of the Han people, foreigners were the "relative relatives" of the Song Dynasty. Generally speaking, there was no conflict between the two sides. After all, it was not a proud thing for them to bully outsiders as "my family".

When Han civilization collides with foreign civilizations, there will always be a different spark of wisdom. No matter which ethnic group it is, it will have its own national characteristics, including technology, medicine, astronomy, calendar, art, and many other aspects of knowledge.

And these things did not appear in vain. Perhaps they were precious wealth obtained by a nation over a thousand years of history. After their descendants entered the Song Dynasty, these things followed them to the Song Dynasty.

Not to mention anything else, the cold forging technology alone brought great blessings to the Song Dynasty. Why was the Xixia in the northwest able to dominate the northwest? The most important thing was to rely on the cold forging armor technology.

The reason why Tie Harrier became the trump card in Li Yuanhao's hands was because of their extremely strong cold-forged armor.

A complete pair of protective armor, including head guards, shoulder guards, leg guards, elbow guards, chest guards, etc. The armor forged by the Xixia people back then was also called "Crazy Armor", which was very famous even in the Central Plains.

The so-called "warm armor" is named after the wart that grows on the skin with the raised part of the armor surface, and the main reason for this is that the armor is made of cold forging, so uneven pounding marks appear.

The so-called cold forging means that the metal is directly forged into shape without heating.

This armor is made of cold forging technology. The armor has a smooth and bright surface and is extremely hard. It cannot be inserted without a strong crossbow.

In order to test how strong it was, Han Qi asked the soldiers to stand at fifty steps and shoot continuously with a powerful crossbow, but no arrow could pass it.

Occasionally, an arrow was stabbed in. When I was checked, I found that it was just shot into the drill hole at the point where the armor was in contact with it, but the shot arrow was also wrapped by a layer of iron sheet drilled. This is the armor blessed by cold forging technology.

Civilizations collide because of the cold forged wart armor on the Iron Harrier and the ratchet crossbow of the Song Dynasty thus increased the armor-breaking performance of the arrows, and the two sides were also considered to be back and forth.

When the Western Xia was destroyed and the Dangxiang people became an internal citizen of the Song Dynasty, cold forging technology also spread from Dangxiang to the Song Dynasty.

Although cold forging seems simple, the secrets and tricks require a lot of time and experience to accumulate slowly. However, with the teachings of Dangxiang people, the problem becomes much simpler.

The Song Dynasty had steam-powered machinery, forging was not a hard task for the Song Dynasty, and with the blessing of the machine, the speed would be much faster.

The human pounding turned into the pounding of machines, and the craftsmen of the Song Dynasty creatively improved the cold forging techniques of the Dangxiang people.

First make steel, turn pig iron into good steel with various elements, remove impurities and even add other things needed to make the steel reach the required strength or flexibility.

Then cold forging is carried out to obtain the required shape of the instrument, so that it can become the armor or weapons, or even equipment of the Song Dynasty. The Geju Academy is recently experimenting with how to cold forge a cannon...

This is an improvement and a worthwhile flight. Once the steel of the Song Dynasty can reach the required strength, it is entirely possible to replace the original brass cannon. In this way, it can reduce production costs, which is a very bad thing.

This is the result of the integration between civilizations. Zhao Zhen was naturally happy to see it, but the Song Dynasty and Tubo were very troublesome. The integration here was a bit unworkable because the people on the plateau could not migrate to the mainland on a large scale, and the people in the Central Plains could not migrate to the plateau on a large scale.
Chapter completed!