"The population of Taiyuan Prefecture is about 300,000, which is the result of large-scale population migration in recent years." Mei Zhili replied.

"Where is Daizhou?" Zhao Ning's tone was a little urgent.

"There are only 20,000 people in Daizhou. Wu Jie urgently transferred 4,000 people away, leaving only more than 10,000 people."

"Can't we change a few more people and come out to Wu Jie?"

"this……"

"Your Majesty, things happened suddenly. The Jin people attacked Yinshan and Wu Jie came out of Yanmen. They were all unexpected. Daizhou could not support Wu Jie to occupy Yunzhou." The person who spoke was Zhao Ding.

Zhao Ning said: "Why didn't Daizhou move more people before? It's such an important border area!"

"Daizhou has experienced many wars over the years. When it was occupied by the Jin people, many people were plundered by the Jin people and sent outside the customs. The fertile land and craftsmanship were damaged. It was not that the imperial court said that as many people as possible could be transferred immediately.

Food and population have to keep up, and it was only in the past two years that our dynasty regained Daizhou."

When Zhao Ding said this, Zhao Ning slowly calmed down.

He actually knew that it was almost impossible to fully occupy Yunzhou now, but Wu Jie suddenly defeated Yunzhou, which suddenly gave Zhao Ning an unexpected surprise.

That’s Yunzhou!

Do you know what it means to take back Yunzhong Mansion?

This means that the Song Dynasty's front line no longer has to huddle in Yanmen Pass, and it means that the active attack on the Jin Kingdom and the grassland has truly begun.

After years of continuous management, the Song Dynasty already has a certain number of war horses. If Yunzhong returns to the hands of the Song Dynasty, the Zhao Guan family can also smash a large number of cavalry in Yunzhong like Liu Che did back then, and destroy the entire Song Dynasty.

The offensive line is fully extended.

Of course, the same would be true if control of Yinshan returned to his hands.

Strategy is strategy, but people must admit the reality, otherwise they will overestimate their capabilities and dig their own graves.

The relationship between the Song Dynasty's current military deployment and logistics supply has reached a limit.

With so many troops deployed along the national border that stretches thousands of miles across, the supply of both money and food has entered a tight state.

"Your Majesty, the official road to the east of Hedong has been completed. Now it is under construction from Taiyuan to Fuzhou and from Taiyuan to Daizhou. It should be completed by the end of this year. By then, the population and food supply of Daizhou will be greatly increased." Lu Yihao

He took the words and said, "It's really not a good time to act too hastily now."

Zhao Ning said: "What should we do about Yunzhou? Will it be returned to the Kingdom of Jin?"

"No, Your Majesty, the focus of this war is not Yunzhou, but Yinshan." Zhao Ding said, "Wu Jinqing rushed from Fuzhou to Daizhou and sent troops to Yunzhou. His real intention was to cut off the Jin army's logistics and help Yu Yunwen win

Yinshan.”

Gao Qiu came out and said: "Your Majesty, I feel that we can gather all the manpower of Taiyuan Mansion to go out of Yanmen Pass to assist Wu Jinqing in guarding Yunzhou. Since we have captured them all, there is no reason to spit them out!"

"Absolutely not!" Zhao Ding said, "We just captured Yunzhou. Yunzhong is still the power of the Jin Kingdom. The Jin Kingdom can react and mobilize troops to fight back at any time. If we insist on forcibly dispatching troops from Taiyuan and Qizhou

When manpower leaves the pass, first of all, the logistics will not be able to provide strong support. Outside Yanmen Pass, it is easy to be intercepted by the Jin Army cavalry!"

"Your Majesty, our army is at its peak now and we must not retreat in front of the Jin people!" Wang Zonglio also jumped out.

Zhao Ning walked back and forth for a while before saying: "Let Wu Jinqing make his own decision, and the court will not interfere. He knows best whether he can keep it, forcibly accumulate manpower, and the Shenzong Dynasty will be defeated again. Don't say I can't accept it.

The Song Dynasty couldn’t accept it either.”

The governors breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhao Guanjia added: "I don't have to take Yunzhou back now, but Yinshan! I must get it! The political hall will be ready to quickly immigrate to Yinshan from now on."

Speaking of immigration, our Minister of Revenue, Mei Zhili, jumped out again and said, "How many immigrants will your Majesty want?"

"Two hundred thousand people. I want to place two hundred thousand people in Yinshan Mountain and turn it into a town in the Central Plains!"

Mei Zhili asked Zhang Shuye again: "If it is according to what your Majesty said, how many of the 200,000 people are soldiers?"

Zhang Shuye said: "Eighty thousand people."

"The implication is that 120,000 people will be immigrated, right?"

"Yes."

"It cost 5 million guan to immigrate 100,000 guan from Fuzhou and Linzhou. Now we need to immigrate 120,000 guan, so I will calculate it as 6 million guan. Is that okay?"

"No problem." Zhang Shuye said.

"There is a problem!" Mei Zhili suddenly shouted loudly, his face turned red, completely ignoring the presence of Zhao Guan's family, "Do you know that if you spend money like this, two more treasuries will be empty!"

After saying that, Mei Zhili knelt on the ground and cried loudly: "Your Majesty! Now the annual military expenditure has increased to more than 30 million guan, and the cash income of the national treasury is only 55 million guan every year, excluding military expenses and official salaries.

Dropped, not much left! Not much left!”

The surroundings were quiet for a moment.

This money matter gives everyone a headache.

Everyone present can be said to be a master of making money.

For example, Wang Zongliu made soap in the Song Dynasty with his own hands. Now the price of a piece of soap has dropped to ten cents.

Then there is the restructuring of state-owned trading companies, which was also initiated by Wang Zonglio. The excess grain stored in grain stores was sold and circulated.

For example, in Zhao Ding, southern tea gardens are now widely planted.

For example, Lu Yihao, he single-handedly solved many troubles in the officialdom.

But the problem is that the cash income of the treasury has increased to 55 million yuan.

This is already a limit.

Growth will take time, such as the establishment of more tea gardens and the growth of more cash crops in the southeast.

This all takes time.

None of this can be achieved immediately by relying on an idea or a new policy.

"Get up, Mei Shangshu." Zhao Ning walked over and stretched out a hand, and Mei Shangshu stood up quickly.

Mei Zhili said: "Your Majesty, in fact, immigrants do not have to give those people so much money. Immigration in previous dynasties has not given that much."

"What I want is time, and what I want is to move people there quickly. As long as it can be done quickly, with few problems, and spending more money, it doesn't hurt. It can also promote local business and make the place develop quickly."

"but……"

"There are actually many ways to deal with money." Zhao Ning thought for a while and said, "How about this. The bank issues a silver certificate. Each silver certificate starts with a value of 10 yuan. You can buy it for at least five years and earn 100 yuan every year.

Interest, how about it?”

As soon as Zhao Guan's words came out, everyone was a little confused on the spot.

Mei Zhili asked: "Your Majesty will use this money to issue the silver certificate at this time..."

"Used in Yinshan."

Everyone couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Used in Yinshan?

Isn’t this just borrowing money from the private sector to fight the war?

“Then where will the interest money come from to be paid to the purchaser?”

"It will be allocated from future treasury revenue."

"This is not just interest money. If 20 million guan of silver certificates are sold, 21 million guan will be given out after five years." Wang Zongliu said.

"That's right."

"Then these 20 million yuan will be used in the war after being raised now. In five years, the national treasury may not be able to come up with this money."
Chapter completed!