"How about Wu Jie temporarily staying in the Taiyuan Mansion area to contain Taiyuan City?"

"feasible."

After chatting with Zhang Jun, it was already evening.

After a cold autumn rain fell, the front of Wende Hall was covered with maple leaves.

Autumn is a soothing season. In addition to the harvest, it seems to tell people that it is time to stop and rest, let everything fall first, and do not have to rush to continue growing.

There is no need to rush the growth, which means that some residual impurities should be removed.

The sky slowly calmed down, like an elegant blue grinding, slowly melting away.

The maids brought some heating items to Wende Hall and set up candlelight.

Not long after, the internal minister Song Shuyuan arrived at Wende Hall.

Song Shuyuan is wearing a peach-colored silk gown, a lily bun, two willow-leaf eyebrows, and a pair of almond eyes. She looks beautiful and elegant.

She has a calm and capable temperament about her.

"Official family."

"You came."

"As of now, the roster of all town supervisors includes those in Gyeonggi Road, Huaixi Road, and prefectures and counties."

There are sixteen counties in Gyeonggi Road and thirty-four counties in Huaixi, with two armies and one prison.

A total of 265 town officials were dispatched from the two routes.

Most of them came from the University of Tokyo and entered the New Kankan Institute for retreat for a period of time.

Song Shuyuan said: "This year, Gyeonggi Road collects summer taxes, and the role of the town supervisors cannot be ignored. Among them, the three town supervisors in Weishi County collected the taxes by the end of June, faster than ever before."

After the Secretary of Agriculture vigorously promoted the new policy of equalizing land leases, what was collected was rent, but its essence was still tax.

However, the amount collected per mu has been greatly reduced, and the pressure on the people has become so small for the first time.

The town supervisor also has a path to promotion. If the town supervisor does well, he will not be promoted to county magistrate, but to general judge.

The general magistrate was originally only set up by the state capital, but now each county also has a general magistrate.

Song Shuyuan continued: "The most important thing is that the town supervisor of Gyeonggi Road re-measured the fertile land on Gyeonggi Road. In the previous records of the Ministry of Household Affairs, Gyeonggi Road had 11.38 million acres of fertile land. However, the latest

The total number of fertile farmland measured and summarized is 15.68 million acres, which is a full 4.3 million acres more."

Zhao Ning said: "It seems that there are not a few local households with shady names."

"It is true that there are not a few. I am wondering whether there will be more fields in Huaixi?"

"Not only will there be more fields in Huaixi, but also in Hebei, Hedong, Jingdong, and even Shaanxi." Zhao Ning stood up and walked to the map. Shaanxi is the next strategic location. Now the number of Shaanxi Sixth Road is 4,500.

Millions of acres of land, but it must be more than that.

Surveying fields in ancient times was a very tedious and complicated task.

It now appears that the supervisory and town official system has a surprisingly good effect on the New Agricultural Policy.

Although once any organization expands, management costs will rise rapidly, and phenomena of concealment and corruption will also occur, but now is not the time to deduct these.

"The University of Tokyo has more than 5,000 new recruits this year. You must make good use of these people."

"I understand."

"Kang Kang has gone to Jingdong Road, please quickly arrange manpower for him." Zhao Ning picked up another letter and said, "This is Tang Ke's letter from Jinghu North Road. Send a group of people to him next year."

"Jinghu North Road is in the south. There are still a lot of vacancies for supervisors and town officials in the northern roads. Do we need to fill the northern roads first?"

"No, no, Jinghu North Road needs to be replenished with sufficient personnel. The imperial court plans to vigorously develop Jinghu North Road next."

Not just fields, but also iron.

There are many iron mines on Jinghu North Road. We must be fully prepared for the next war against Xixia and the Jin Kingdom.

Iron armor, swords, even muskets, and thunderbolts must be prepared in sufficient quantities.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, most of the iron mines were concentrated in Hebei and Shandong, and these places would be threatened by the Jin army at any time.

If the southern iron mines were not mined in large quantities, once a larger-scale war broke out in the future and the Jin army targeted the iron mines of the Song Dynasty, they would be passive.

Not only the iron ore on Jinghu North Road, but also the iron ore development in Fujian is on the agenda, and there are also iron ores in Huaixi.

"Yes, I will first arrange manpower for Jinghu North Road."

"I've worked hard on you during this time."

"I don't think it's hard. Your Majesty needs to take more care of your holy body."

Zhao Ning smiled and said, "Go back and rest early."

"His Majesty……"

"What else?"

Song Shuyuan hesitated for a moment and said: "It's nothing. Your Majesty also needs to rest early. I will leave."

Just as Song Shuyuan was about to walk out of Wende Hall, Zhao Ning's voice came from behind: "By the way, Shuyuan, you are not young anymore. If you have a husband you like, I will officiate your marriage."

"Your Majesty, I am now a central minister, in charge of the core secrets of the New Deal. If I get married rashly, if it is leaked, I will be in trouble."

"Then you can't stay unmarried for the rest of your life, right? How can there be a daughter whose family is unmarried?"

Song Shuyuan said excitedly: "I am willing to follow Your Majesty to the death and do my best for Your Majesty."

Zhao Ning was startled, and quickly smiled and said: "I just mentioned it casually, you don't have to take it seriously, you can make your own decision about the marriage."

"I excuse myself."

September 30th, Xingqing Mansion, Xixia.

Brother Richard met Li Qianshun alone.

Li Qianshun said: "Now that Daxia has been recovering for several years, our troops have become stronger. Song Guo has just fought a few battles with the Jin State and his vitality has been severely damaged. If we take the opportunity to go south and raid the Song Army in Shaanxi, will we have a chance of winning?"

"What is the purpose of His Majesty's attack on Song Dynasty?"

Li Qianshun said ambitiously: "To occupy Shaanxi and force the Song Dynasty to fully open mutual trade to our country, I want to sell salt to Tokyo City."

"Why did the Jin Kingdom cease war with the Song Dynasty?"

"This...I don't know yet."

"As far as I know, the Song army is still fighting bravely, but the Song Dynasty is undergoing internal restructuring, and the Jin Kingdom is waiting for the opportunity."

"Waiting for the opportunity?"

"Waiting for the opportunity when the Song Dynasty becomes weak due to restructuring."

"you mean?"

Brother Richard said: "What I mean is to wait for the Song Dynasty to become the weakest, and then give the Song Dynasty a full blow, so as to achieve the effect your Majesty wants."

"So, you also agree with me to attack Song Dynasty?"

Brother Richard said impassionedly: "The iron we are mining in Hengshan is not enough to cover the entire army. Why not wait a year or two? When our Daxia soldiers are all wearing armor and their cavalry are like clouds, that will be the most powerful period in the Song Dynasty."

When you are weak, march forward and decide the outcome in one battle!"

"I thought you were doing business with the Song Dynasty and were unwilling to attack the Song Dynasty."

"I will only do what is best for Daxia."

"Okay, I will leave the military affairs to you. I trust you. However, can you leave the business with the Uighurs to Weiming Anhui?"

Brother Richard hesitated for a moment and said, "I would like to comply with your Majesty's arrangements."
Chapter completed!