Moreover, Shao Pu was obviously clever when calculating the overall budget.

How much people's power will be used to build a city with one million strings? These people usually farm the land, and now they come to build the city. How much money do they need to pay?

It is impossible to do all the labor for free, and we have to ensure that they eat, which means more food is needed.

In the area from Suide to Yinzhou, it is not enough to just build one or two fortresses.

At that time, Xihe Road was laid, a walled city was built on Xihe Road, and the border residents were attracted. Four million yuan was invested every year. This amount was invested every year.

Moreover, a considerable part of this fee may have been embezzled.

The most important thing is that everyone stopped farming and came to build the city. The grain harvest was reduced, and the court taxes were reduced accordingly. The people were short of food. If a regional disaster caused a regional disaster, the court had to spend money for disaster relief. Isn't this all a cost?

Finally, the pension figure of one million dollars is very conservative.

A pension of one million yuan corresponds to more than 30,000 people.

What if 150,000 people died?

That's four and a half million dollars.

If we add some from other places, wouldn't the total budget exceed 10 million yuan?

For Zhao Ning, who is filling the huge loopholes in the military and political affairs of the northwest, this is an even worse situation. The risk is extremely high, and the plate will collapse if he does not play well.

Therefore, many times, many things can be accomplished without just opening your mouth.

Zhao Ning said: "What Mr. Uncle Ye said makes sense. Liu Qi won Yinzhou, but this does not mean that Yinzhou is foolproof, nor does it mean that the Song Dynasty can fight for Hengshan with all its strength."

Zhao Ning's so-called "stud" strategy was all demonstrated to Li Qianshun. This is strategic deterrence.

Just like the furry bear wants to throw a nuclear bomb at the rabbit, the rabbit tells Yingjiang, "The furry bear is going to throw a nuclear bomb at me, and I will throw all my nuclear bombs at you." The essence is the same.

They are all strategic deterrents.

The core of this strategic deterrence is deterrence, which aims to prevent war rather than actually destroying the other party.

That's why there is a saying that strategic contempt and tactical attention are given.

Zhao Ning continued: "Keep Yinzhou, build fortresses from Suide to Yinzhou, consolidate the achievements of Yinzhou, and build new cities in Yinzhou. From now on, Xixia must and can only accumulate troops in Shizhou."

"In this way, the Xixia people could only build large-scale fortresses in the Shizhou area and compress the Song Dynasty's front in Yinzhou."

"This will consume Xixia's treasury and prevent Xixia from spending more money to build armors and weapons. It will also make the people of Xixia tired and unable to worry about agriculture, further weakening Xixia."

If Li Qianshun wants to stop the war, I will agree and Xixia will continue to accept banknotes.

Zhao Ning did not say this last sentence.

Because it's still confidential for now.

He had just sent Hu Quan to Shaanxi to implement the new banknote payment, and the situation had just begun.

Moreover, it is not easy to force Xixia to use handover money. A certain amount of flexibility must be left for later negotiations between the two parties, so that Xixia can be forced to accept handover money.

As for Xixia's announcement that banknotes were domestic legal currency, what could the Song Dynasty get from this?

It's very simple. The imperial court printed money to buy green and white salt on a large scale in Huizhou.

A pound of your green and white salt costs 4 cents?

The total value of a pound of banknotes of the same denomination may be 10,000 guan, but the cost may not be 100 guan.

You must know that as soon as the production capacity of Banknote increases, the unit cost will decrease. This is the principle of small profits but quick turnover.

Ten thousand guan can sell 2.5 million jins of green and white salt!

The cost of these 2.5 million kilograms of green and white salt is less than 100 cents. After calculation, one penny can buy 25,000 kilograms of green and white salt.

If you change hands and transport these 2.5 million kilograms of green and white salt to Gyeonggi, it is not expensive to sell it for 10 cents per kilogram, right?

This is the logic of monetary hegemony.

Do you think war is the top game of mankind?

Or politics?

No! Finance is!

Financial rules are rules for the distribution of interests to all parties.

This is equivalent to the Xixia people working hard to dig salt and work for the Song Dynasty.

Even if you dig out the salt and dig out the flowers, it won't change the logic of being squeezed.

This is much less risky than trying to capture Hengshan in a short period of time, but the benefits are much greater.

In this way, the purchased green and white salt can also be transported to Hedong and Hebei to resist the currency war of green and white salt penetrated by the Jin Kingdom.

Zhao Ning said: "Liu Qi has made great contributions and is bestowed upon him as General Zhongwu."

General Zhongwu, a fourth-grade military rank, equivalent to a lieutenant general.

After Yue Fei defeated Liu Yu, Yue Fei was promoted from the champion general to the general of the army, from the second rank, equivalent to a general.

These are false positions, but extremely honorable.

There were very few people in the Song Dynasty who could get this kind of position.

Although it is a false position, it shows that the Zhao family recognizes Liu Qi's military achievements and recognizes him personally.

Zhao Ning finally said: "According to Zhang Jun's wishes, we have drafted an edict to guard Yinzhou first. All affairs in Yinzhou will be coordinated by Liu Qi, and no one is allowed to interfere."

This completely eliminated the possibility of senior officials in the capital interfering with the front line.

Prevent the "Defeat of Yongle City" from happening again.

Liu Qi knew that he would become the target of the Xixia people next, and the Xixia people would definitely raise troops to attack. After all, they had learned from past mistakes.

But Yinzhou must hold on. In early April, Yanyan Road first responded to Liu Qi's order and mobilized 20,000 local Xiang troops, Turkish troops and ordinary people to arrive at Mizhi Village.

About 10,000 shi of grain were also transported to Mizhi Village.

The process of mobilizing to the front line in Yinzhou started on Fuyan Road.

On the fifth day of April, Zhang Jun received a secret letter from Zhao Guan's family.

The main contents of the secret letter include two points:

One, defend Yinzhou.

Second, negotiate with Xixia and force Xixia to accept the payment of money.

There is a logic to this matter.

Yinzhou is in the hands of the Song Dynasty. If we go to negotiate with Xixia now, Xixia will definitely not be willing to give in.

You, Song Dynasty, took advantage of me not paying attention to launch a sneak attack and took Yinzhou into your hands. Then you turned around and wanted to negotiate with me? Do you think my army of hundreds of thousands is just a decoration?

Therefore, a war between Song and Xia will definitely break out in Yinzhou.

The task in the first stage is to defend Yinzhou.

After Song Xia fought in Yinzhou, Xixia found that it could not conquer Yinzhou, and Li Qianshun would inevitably start to worry about over-investing troops to consume.

At this time, the second phase of the plan can be started: negotiation, forcing Xixia to accept the payment of money, and finally a ceasefire.

Only after this is accomplished can the goal of hegemony over Xixia be achieved.

After reading the secret letter from Zhao Guan's family, Zhang Jun had only one sentence: Guan, please accept my knee.

On the tenth day of April, the Xixia army had arrived in Xiazhou from Hongzhou and gathered here, only a few dozen miles away from Shizhou.

A war of unprecedented scale is coming.

In order to ensure the victory of the war, Li Qianshun went on a personal expedition.

He originally planned to send Brother Richard, but after careful consideration, he did not send Brother Richard.

Because in Li Qianshun's plan, when the Battle of Yinzhou fell into a stalemate, he needed to negotiate with the Song Dynasty.
Chapter completed!