Cai Mao said: "Now our DPRK and the Jin Kingdom are confronting each other in Hebei. If the DPRK sends troops to Xinzhou, it will inevitably trigger a full-scale war on the northern front."

Zhao Ning said: "To negotiate peace, just negotiate peace with the Kingdom of Jin."

A question appeared on Cai Mao's head: "Negotiation for peace?"

Your Majesty, you have made peace with the Kingdom of Jin, how can you still attack Xinzhou?

Zhao Guanjia said: "Negotiating peace with the Jin Kingdom, truce between the two sides, opening up the market, comprehensive trade, exempting commercial taxes, allowing the Jin Kingdom to make some money in our court, and allowing the Jin Kingdom's nobles to buy whatever they want, these are not too much.

Bar?"

Everyone looked confused.

Zhao Guanjia continued: "We must let the Jin people discover the benefits of negotiating peace with us, so that we can satisfy the peace requirements of the Jin Dynasty Hall Master to a greater extent."

Everyone understood that Zhao Guan's family was negotiating peace with others and at the same time wanted to go to war with others. They could negotiate peace and go to war.

Use benefits to paralyze the opponent, and use war to take back what you want.

Cai Mao thought for a moment and said, "I'm afraid it would be difficult for the Jin people to agree to this."

Zhao Guanjia said: "Which Jin person disagrees?"

Cai Mao couldn't answer for a while.

Which Jin person disagrees?

The factional struggle in the Jin Dynasty's court has become more fierce than in the first year of Jingkang. The Jin Dynasty was unable to expand externally, and internal conflicts became extremely acute.

As far as Zhao Ning learned, the peace factions such as Wanyan Zongpan and Wanyanchang became a force that cannot be ignored when they took power.

The Imperial Court of Jin is now in a state of being torn apart, but the cracks are not obvious enough.

Zhao Ding said: "There must be some people in Jin who disagree, but there must be some people who agree internally. Let's leave this problem to the people in Jin."

"That's right, it's just to keep the Jin people arguing among themselves."

Zhao Ning took the topic back and asked Wu Jie: "If we want to recover Linzhou and Fugu, how much military expenditure will be needed?"

"I have done some calculations and found that including the post-recovery immigrants, at least three million guan will be needed."

When Wu Jie said this, he was still a little scared. After all, three million dollars is not a small amount.

After Wu Jie arrived in the capital, he met Zhang Shuye in private.

Zhang Shuye told him about the issue of the imperial military expenditure.

I heard that military expenditures in Liaodong have skyrocketed this year, and Hebei has spent a lot of money due to the confrontation between the Song and Jin Dynasties. The imperial court has plans to destroy Xia in recent years, and the south is also clamoring for tax exemptions.

The national treasury is actually very tight, and even royal expenses have been greatly reduced.

When Wu Jie mentioned this number, he was already prepared to be rejected.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Guanjia said: "I can still get three million guans, as long as you give Linzhou and Fugu to me next year, not to mention 3 million guans, I will also give you 5 million guans!"

Wu Jie was shocked and said quickly: "Thank you for your trust, your Majesty. If you don't take back Linzhou and Fugu, I am willing to come and see you!"

Everyone discussed again in the Wende Hall, mainly focusing on how to get Linzhou and Fugu back next.

After the discussion was over, Zhao Ning summoned Mei Zhili alone.

"I want to allocate three million more military expenditures to Hedong. How about that?"

Mei Zhili almost jumped up on the spot. He quickly said: "Your Majesty, there is no money! This time the Southern Sixth Road is tax-free, and the boss's money is also exempted. This year's agricultural tax is probably only 15 million dan, even the past two cents."

Not even one! If the revenue of Taifu Temple had not increased significantly this year and the imperial court issued Jiaozi, I am afraid that it would no longer be able to support the northern military expenditure. Now you want to increase military expenditure, this..."

"It doesn't matter, Qin Hui is checking taxes in Jiangdong and Huaidong, and there will be a lot of income soon. You have to send someone to keep an eye on it for me!"

Mei Zhili was stunned for a moment and said quickly: "This is a matter that has no shadow, and we cannot rely on it."

Zhao Ning said with a smile: "We already have one stroke of the horoscope, and we are just missing that one stroke. You can feel free to make a budget."

Even if something goes wrong, the worst case scenario is that Zhang Jun will be dragged out and raped!

Zhao Ning still kept a few hands.

In the evening, Wu Jie was summoned just after finishing his meal.

"The officials want to summon me?"

"Yes."

Wu Jie quickly cleaned up.

This time we went not to the imperial palace, but to the Gewuyuan.

Wu Jie was curious. It was his first time to come to Gewuyuan.

Chen Gui is paying attention to something for Zhao Guan's family.

Seeing Wu Jie coming, Zhao Ning said: "Come, Wu Qing, let me introduce you. This is Chen Gui, the Minister of Industry. I believe you have heard of his name."

"I've heard about Minister Chen's name for a long time. It's a pleasure to meet you."

"You're welcome, Commander Wu. Commander Wu regained Taiyuan and became famous all over the world. I can see him today and his reputation is well-deserved."

The Zhao Guan family interrupted their business exchange and said: "Wu Qing, I asked you to see something that can help you capture Linzhou and Fugu."

"oh?"

Chen Gui led the two of them to the back.

Behind is an empty school field with no one around.

The setting sun casts its afterimage onto the school grounds, which is quiet and peaceful.

On the school field, there is a huge trebuchet, but its structure is slightly different from an ordinary trebuchet.

Wu Jie asked curiously: "Your Majesty, what is this?"

"You'll find out soon enough."

One hundred meters in front of the trebuchet, there is a temporary wall, which is very thick and is no different from an ordinary city wall.

The people near the trebuchet began to operate and put huge stones on it.

Wu Jie was a little confused, so Zhao Guanjia took him to see what the trebuchet was doing.

This is not a strange thing, you can see it everywhere on the border.

However, the next scene shocked Wu Jie so much that he was speechless.

There was only a muffled sound as the huge stone was thrown out. After drawing an arc in the air, it hit the thick wall more than a hundred meters away, directly smashing a big crater into the wall.

The wall was several meters thick. Even so, a big hole was created.

Wu Jie was dumbfounded.

It is absolutely impossible for a trebuchet to do this.

"This..." Wu Jie stared blankly at this scene, with cold sweat on his soles.

Zhao Ning said: "This is the latest trebuchet produced by Gewuyuan. It is very powerful. If a dozen of them are launched, it can collapse the city wall. Then Linzhou and Fugu are important border towns. If you want to capture them quickly,

New weapons must be deployed.”

Wu Jie took a deep breath and felt cold sweat all over his body.

This thing was completely beyond his knowledge.

At this moment, he felt that the war had completely changed.

In the past, cities were sieged using cloud ladders, which were not easy to attack, especially when encountering heavily defended important towns such as Taiyuan City.

Even Wanyan Zonghan, who commanded tens of thousands of elite Jin troops, fought for more than nine months before capturing it.

In the past, it was very difficult to siege a city.

But with the scene just now, Wu Jie felt that times had changed.

As for why Zhao Ning didn't come up with something like the Huihui Cannon in advance, it was because the field combat capabilities before the Song Dynasty were too poor. During the northern line of defense, Taiyuan was still in the hands of the Jin Army.

If Hui Hui Pao was learned by the Jin Army, the Jin Army could ignore the Song Dynasty's defense system.
Chapter completed!