The Yici Leye people incident in the capital of Shendu has ended. Their cost is not great. At least it is not great to the people of the Song Dynasty. It is just a few people who died. These people attacked the missions of the foreign court, which was originally a crime to be punished.

If the missions of the Great Qin State were attacked elsewhere, it would be nothing, but the gods at the feet of the Heavenly Emperor attacked the missions of the Great Qin State, it would not be as simple as attacking the missions. No one or dynasty in this world dared to provoke the dignity of the Song Dynasty.

The guests of the Song Dynasty were attacked, and the only one who was embarrassed was the Song Dynasty!

The attack on the Qin delegation of Yici Leye was like slapping the face of the Song Dynasty and the new king Zhao Xu, who had just ascended the throne! The people of the Song Dynasty and the court officials were naturally filled with righteous indignation, and the censors of the Supervision Bureau even threatened to severely punish Yici Leye.

Zhao Zhen knew that the whole story was just a part of Yi Ci Leye people. The number of Yi Ci Leye people was hundreds of thousands. The reason for expanding to such a scale was because of the power of the Song Dynasty in recent years. Yi Ci Leye people were like the living creatures of the Song Dynasty. The stronger the Song Dynasty, the better the life of Yi Ci Leye people will be.

Hundreds of thousands of Yicai Leye people lived in the Song Dynasty, including some merchants who had traveled between the Song Dynasty and the Western Kingdoms of Israel. They traveled between the East and the West, with unusual vision and insight.

Zhao Zhen didn't really want the people of Leye to grow too strong in the Song Dynasty, because there was no so-called "green card" in this era. As long as you live on the land of the Song Dynasty and pay taxes to the Song Dynasty yamen, you can obtain a household registration.

The land of the Song Dynasty was too huge, especially for the current world. The land of the Song Dynasty was already quite vast, a large amount of land was developed and utilized, and roads were constantly being built, which also led to the increasing population needed by the Song Dynasty.

There are undoubtedly two ways to increase the population. One is to increase the fertility and birth rate of the country, and the other is to absorb foreign population.

The Song Dynasty absorbed a lot of foreign population. The Dangxiang people who first moved to the Song Dynasty were one of them, and there were the Jurchens, Khitans, and those fewer foreigners.

The population of the Song Dynasty has already exceeded 100 million. The high yield of grain, the increase in varieties, and the increase in food rations have made feeding people not difficult.

Although famine has not been completely eliminated, hunger is no longer the main problem that plagues the Han ethnic group.

The Song Dynasty had already seen a virtuous cycle, with land development, grain output increasing, human affiliation value increasing, commerce developed, manufacturing industry developed, and the income of ordinary people increased, followed by population increases and then to land development, and cycles in turn.

Once a virtuous cycle occurs, as long as it is properly controlled, it will continue until external forces appear to break the cycle. However, one thing is that this cycle is also extremely powerful to resist external forces.

The development of manufacturing and commerce in the Song Dynasty can fully support the development of agriculture and meet the needs of war. Various policies are constantly adjusted and integrated, forming one binding force after another to make the development of the Song Dynasty run on track.

Zhao Zhen was not afraid of change or foreign enemies. What he was worried about was that the Song Dynasty would fall into the situation of "deeping its head and not looking at the future". There is a common problem with Han civilization, that is, it likes to be self-consistent and looks down on all foreign races when he is strong.

This is wrong and irrational. The best way is to take a long-term view while developing yourself.

Only in this way can we always pay attention to the changes in the "enemy". Zhao Zhen has always regarded the potential enemy in the Western world. On the land of the East, the former invader had been annexed by the Song Dynasty and became Haidong Prefecture, while the Western invader Zhao Zhen did not let them go.

The "stability" of that land made Zhao Zhen restless, so that when he took on the letters of Henry III, his first idea was to refuse.

But Zhao Zhen soon discovered that rejection is not a good thing, and the best way is to make the place confused!

How to get confused? Of course, it should be an internal strife!!

No one knows that the main reason why the Roman Catholic Church is so arrogant and dares to compete for power with Henry III for control of the Holy Roman Empire is not only because of Gregory VII's ambition, but more importantly, someone supports them behind their backs.

Zhao Zhen never felt that he was a good person, nor did he feel that he could go to the Western paradise after his death, but Zhao Zhen knew that while what he did was harming the Romans, it also hindered the development of the West to buy time for the East.

It is enough to know this. His fundamental purpose is not to destroy the Holy Roman Empire, nor to destroy the Seljuk Empire. His fundamental purpose is just to make the West more chaotic.

The Crusades could no longer meet Zhao Zhen's expectations. How much trauma can a group of bandits and robbers from official organizations cause to the enemy?

What an exciting thing is to fund the Holy See’s Civil War? And provoking the relationship between the Holy Roman Empire and Seljuk is another wonderful thing!

The Song Dynasty never lacked opportunities because the Song people would create opportunities themselves. As the saying goes, "A war between two tigers will cause one injury." Sitting on the mountain to watch the tiger fight is the best way for fishermen to gain profit.

Zhao Zhen didn't know how much benefit the war between the two Western empires could bring to the Song Dynasty, but Zhao Zhen knew that the Jewish Kingdom of Israel would be preserved and would be spared at least temporarily.

The most cruel thing in human history during war, but it is also an indispensable element in human development. While humans are afraid of war, they also need war.

Things that seem contradictory are the eternal truth of human development. "If you are wary, you will die; if you forget to fight, you will be in danger." This is a development philosophy that the ancestors of China have long understood.

Zhao Zhen would not refuse war. He wanted to retain an elite army with combat power for the Song Dynasty. The increase in population and the integration of races have led to the quality of the Song Dynasty's army constantly improving.

The number of people is not the main combat power of an army. On the contrary, the degree of elite force and cooperation are the important things in testing an army.

The most powerful combat power in the Song Dynasty army was no longer the Fourth Army, or the Imperial Guards, but the Sixteen Guards, which was a transfer of military power and combat power.

The veterans of the border army were elites of the Song Dynasty, but after four years of garrison, they would return to the local area. Although they joined the sixteen guards in the local area, the training would not stop.

There are still training camps every year and training every month to maintain their combat effectiveness to the greatest extent, and this is also the strict order issued by Zhao Zhen.
Chapter completed!