Cai Bian said: "Our military force is so powerful now?"

Is the Song Dynasty army really that powerful?

Can you say that such a performance is not powerful? But is it really powerful?

Everyone was confused together.△,

"It's not that powerful, but it's not as cowardly as before. I and Zhang Zhifu analyzed a long time ago that the real combat power of the soldiers of the Three Kingdoms is not that big. If our army goes deep into the enemy's territory and is not prepared properly, it will be defeated. However, if the enemy goes deep into our territory and is not prepared properly, it will be defeated, so there is the origin of the shallow attack tactic."

"Secondly, there are many cavalry in the Western Xia and have the advantage of speed. Our dynasty has many infantry in the dynasty, but without the advantage of speed, they often fight on their own. Even if the court has set up a pacification commander on the marginal lines, they are in charge of the military, political and financial power of the state army to facilitate unified dispatch, but because of insufficient talents and improper dispatch, they still fight on their own. Therefore, many battles in the previous period have more defeats than fewer victory."

"However, the use of military forces in Xixia has one of the biggest characteristics. In a slightly larger battle, the force is at least 100,000, or even 300,000 people... It's a pity that I thought about it. When I came to so many wars, I used 300,000 troops and horses in the attack of Xia. The rest of the troops were used, and even a staggering battle was considered a shocking battle." Wang Juquan explained.

Su Che and others were smiling dumbly.

After winning, everyone was in a relaxed mood.

Wang Ju did not ridicule the Song Dynasty, but ridicule the Western Xia army and the deposed military forces.

"So once they are defeated, it will often be a great victory, just like the battle to defend Fulin Road initiated by Zhang Kang and others..."

Xixia always starts with 100,000 troops. As long as the Song army wins, it means that at least 20,000 or 30,000 troops in Xixia will be slaughtered.

"The problem is that they always have the speed advantage, so if they crack their speed advantage and win again, it will be a super victory." Wang Ju said this. Everyone would be impressed.

The battle to defend Dashun City chaired by Cai Ting and Wang Ju first flooded the Xia army in Huachi, and then used Dashun City to defeat the Xixia army. First, it broke through the military advantage of Xixia. Second, it used Dashun City to block the Xixia speed advantage.

The Qingzhou battle hosted by Wang Ju later was more complicated and more brilliant, but the truth was the same. This year's successive victory was the same, especially in the battle of Mingsha City, which attracted the main army of Xixia to Mingsha City by using the strange formation and then attacked with fire, resulting in the empty troops behind Xixia. Moreover, Liang Yibi's main army was deeply trapped under the Pingxi Fort. It was useless to have a fast speed. The mountain road was rugged and entered the ambush of the Song army. Not only could it not exert the advantages of the cavalry, but it was also not easy to escape.

"Know yourself and your enemy?" Zhao Xu asked.

"It's also a must, but this is also a must. If you don't know the shortcomings and strengths of the enemy and fight blindly, how can you win? But within ten years, even if you don't go to Shaanxi Road, you won't use any further troops to Xixia, and Xixia can't imagine sending 100,000 troops to invade our dynasty at any time."

This is not a joke, but everyone laughed together.

Wang Ju started to talk about the serious business, which was also his last edict before leaving.

That is, 10,000 extremely poor people migrated from Lizhou Road to the north.

There are more than ten prefectures, more than 30 counties, and more than 300,000 households on Lizhou Road. If you look at the area and the number of prefectures and counties, the population is not too dense.

However, except for the Hanzhong Basin, which is only more than 1,000 square kilometers, the rest of Lizhou Road is vast mountainous areas. Considering this factor, it seems that the population is not dense, but the actual population is very dense. This factor is mainly caused by the three major turmoils in Bashu (Wang Quanbin entered Sichuan and Quan Shixiong Uprising, Li Shun and Wang Xiaobo Uprising, and Wang Jun, the rebellion of Zhao Kuangyi's brother-in-law Fu Zhaoshou), which did not affect this area.

As the population became more populated, it was mostly mountainous, so it became a poor area in the Song Dynasty.

But Wang Ju chose this place for two reasons. Compared with the inner abdomen of Bashu, the terrain here is relatively high and not as warm as the inner abdomen of Bashu. People can adapt to the northwest climate.

Secondly, there are many mountainous terrain here, including the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains, the Daba Mountains that stretch for thousands of miles, and the people are poor and the people are brave. This kind of folk custom can be moved to the northwest and will not be bullied by the local Qiang people.

The good news came, and the northwest had not yet stabilized Huizhou, and the battle of the ancient beacon had just ended.

However, Huizhou must have been taken down by the Song Dynasty. The population of Western Xia was becoming increasingly sparse, especially Huizhou was located in the front line. Coupled with Liang Yi's burning, killing, and looting, a large number of vacuum areas appeared in Huizhou, Daozhou. Not only Huizhou, but also the Huluchuan area around Pingxia City was also sparsely populated.

It is not good to have too many people, but it is undoubtedly even worse if there are too few people.

Therefore, 10,000 households migrated to fill the population of this area. Moreover, there are many rivers in this area and a large number of places with abundant water and grass. They are used as pasture places for the Qiang people. However, when the Han people come, they can plant food. It will be a key factor in the northwest years in the next few years. Even if Wang Ju takes over Xixia and Huangzhou, the rebellion and war will have to last for several years. Therefore, in this sense, some people must be migrated.

But that's not the point.

This migration is just an attempt.

After years of tragic wars, the population of Xixia has become less and less. Now it is implementing the strategy of Song Taizu, coercing a large number of Xixia people to Weiyuan, or resettling Huanqing Road and Fuyan Road. In the future, many places in Xixia will be empty and uninhabited.

At that time, the Han people would migrate from the densely populated areas in Hedong and Shaanxi to cultivate and plant. After pacifying Huangzhou, many people would migrate to the Huangshui and Jiaohe areas in the name of Poche Army, border troops or archers. The number of people might be as many as 200,000.

The increase in the number of Han people is conducive to governance. At the same time, if Wang Ju wants to implement the policy of ethnic integration, the foreign and Han people have one family. The first premise is that there must be a large number of Han people in the local area and that the pressure brought by excessive population in some areas is evacuated.

But when implemented, there must be many accidents. This migration will reveal many problems and find ways to resolve these problems in advance, laying a good foundation for large-scale migration in the future.

And this migration has another very important premise, that is, many miscellaneous grains brought from the other side have been gradually promoted on Shaanxi Road. The promotion of these drought-resistant crops is also conducive to the survival of the Han people with agricultural civilization in the north.

Zhang Dun smiled and said, "Taibao. You have overturned all the policies of Emperor Taizong of Tang."

"Since the Qin Dynasty unified the world, the most outstanding emperors were undoubtedly Emperor Guangwu and Emperor Taizong of Tang. Many of their strengths are worthy of pursuing, such as Emperor Taizong of Tang's civil and military governance, using their talents and paying attention to people's livelihood. However, no one is perfect. Although Emperor Taizong of Tang was close to Perfection, he was not perfect. For example, his marriage with Tubo gave a large number of craftsmen to Tubo, which immediately entered the civilization era and became a great trouble for the Tang Dynasty. Our dynasty could no longer do such a thing as strengthening foreign enemies. For example, this national resettlement..."

Li Shimin transformed all the northern and northwest border areas. Therefore, he gave An Lushan the soil for rebellion and the Western Xia was born. So now Wang Ju went against the rules and made the margin areas as popular as possible, including Guangnan West Road.

Everyone is a family, so there are not so many problems.

"When talking about strengthening foreign enemies, your Majesty, and all the Dukes, I also talk about the Hu monk."

Dozens of Tianzhu monks finally came to the capital and settled in Xiangguo Temple. This attracted the attention of many people. Even some Buddhist believers from the Jianghuai region came to the capital and went to Xiangguo Temple to worship. Forget the people, many ministers also joined in the fun. Even under Gao Taotao's supervision, Zhao Xu met these monks in the palace despite Wang Ju's opposition. In fact, these monks couldn't even speak Chinese, and then they spoke Buddhism, and the general translation they brought from Dali was translated by the side.

After receiving the attention of the emperor, many rich people raised money and asked these monks to hold several meetings in Xiangguo Temple. Anyway, Wang Ju couldn't be anxious.

"The Hu monk is a little better. The Buddhist doctrine is not so radical. They promote Buddhism and influence the people to accumulate good deeds. However, once the ministers lucky enough to take down the Hexi Corridor and the Silk Road will be opened, then the countries in the Western Regions will inevitably send envoys to worship our dynasty."

"Your Majesty, I still remember the time of Emperor Taizong. At that time, our dynasty had not lost the northwest. Therefore, many Hu people came to worship our dynasty, some were real messengers, but most of them were real merchants. In the name of the messenger, they handed over the unsold goods to our dynasty as tributes to us in exchange for a considerable reward. In fact, the truth is that when our dynasty is strong, there are no rewards to win over. Naturally, all countries will come to worship our dynasty. Our country is weak. Even if there are rewards to win over, there may not be many countries coming to worship our dynasty.

Therefore, strengthening oneself is the key. No matter how many envoys come, our court or our court, if an envoy does not come, our court or our court. Therefore, once the Silk Road is opened, I hope you don’t make the mistakes of the past again. When you come, you are a guest and you can just entertain, but you don’t have to accept any tribute. Then we can just get some special products from the Song Dynasty or some rank officials. Otherwise, our court may fall into a false reputation and even make the mistakes of Emperor Ming of Tang in his later years."

It is not a big problem, Wang Ju looked at Zhao Xu again and said, "Your Majesty, from now on, the king did not go to court early, which was written by Bai Juyi. The ministers that Your Majesty met in Yanhe Hall were nothing more than a few important ministers, just like now. Therefore, the king had to go to court early so that he could open up his own way of speaking so that he could listen to both sides and be clear."

"In addition, not only the morning court, Emperor Ming of Tang favored Yang Guifei and did not even go to the morning court, but also the government affairs. So Li Linfu became a diligent little bee. In order to handle the national affairs, he even slept in the political affairs hall at night."

Everyone laughed again when they heard the little bee.

"When I was speaking to Your Highness, I deliberately talked about the distribution of this right. For example, when the government affairs of our dynasty came to the Secretariat, the small matters were decided by the Secretariat and other officials, and the major government affairs were decided by the Secretariat and then the subordinates deliberated. However, the real major military and national affairs were left to Your Majesty to handle, and the major edicts were issued by Your Majesty, and the two-system deliberations were drafted. In this way, the powerful ministers would not disrupt the country. Emperor Ming of Tang did not make early courts and did not decide the national affairs, and all the matters were handed over to Li Linfu to decide on the national affairs. This was equivalent to Emperor Ming of Tang delegating the emperor's rights to Li Linfu, which eventually led to a great chaos in the Tang Dynasty."

"Well said," Zhao Xu said.

"Your Majesty, how did Song Renzong fall ill when he was in charge of his rule? It was not as close to women as Fu Bi said, but when Renzong was in charge of his rule, he did all the big and small things himself. Even if the Secretariat now has Duke Cai, Duke Fan, and ministers, he could not make decisions on all military and political affairs one by one. Besides, Renzong alone? Your Majesty, this is a reasonable distribution of rights."

Later, there were two iron men who did this in history. One was Zhu Yuanzhang, and he survived.

Another one is Yongzheng, who ended up being exhausted after only thirteen years.

This is when Wang Ju worrys that Zhao Xu is not at ease after he leaves. Like his early years, he handles many affairs every day. With his current body, he falls down and falls down.

But I can't just say, Your Majesty, just make some major military and national affairs.

So Wang Ju said the other way around. First, he talked about the kings in Li Longji's later years who did not go to court early, and then talked about the story of Song Renzong's exhaustion after taking office. Zhao Xu could easily accept it.

Wang Ju said the last thing.

"In the past, the imperial court used to appease the barbarians and the foreign tribes, and often used money and silk to buy peace from the barbarians and leaders. However, the result was that the barbarians and leaders became more and more powerful, which made many people unable to fill their desires and ambitions. Therefore, the ministers changed their territory in the south. The court could benefit the people. This people were all the people, including all the barbarians who belonged to our Song Dynasty. But they were not the very few barbarian leaders. Only these people were guaranteed to live in food and clothing. Even if there were a few ambitious chiefs, they could not make a big fuss."

"However, even if I am lucky enough to pacify the northwest, there will inevitably be some people rebelling in the future. In addition, if I want to completely stabilize the northwest, I will not only select reasonable officials (referring to the magistrates and counties that must be military generals), as well as reasonable national integration policies, but also make their lives better. I will inevitably allocate funds to build roads and water conservancy and teach them advanced farming. In this way, from this year to the next five or six years, the cost of pacifying the battles of the two countries, suppressing the rebellion, resettlement costs of migrating the people, and the cost of building roads and water conservancy, the government's finances will be very nervous in the past few years."

This article must be made clear, otherwise someone will make an article again.

"But as long as you spend these few years, the people of Shaanxi Road will be liberated. Some of the imprisoned soldiers can be cut one after another. At least a large number of Poches, archers, volunteers, foreign soldiers and foreign strong men and horses on Shaanxi Road can be cut by half, and there is no need to worry about the huge Song and Xia war costs. Even if the military expenses are not reduced, with the current financial situation, a large amount of surplus will be generated at that time."

"Your Majesty, I have told several ministers in the Secretariat that at that time, the country cannot relax, because there is still a river worker. If you want to completely manage the Yellow River, only the strategy I mentioned is the one I mentioned, but in that way, the river worker union is very large. So I said that it will take ten years to make the people's strength not tense and the financial resources not tense. Only after the river work is completed can the country truly enter a small governance."

"And once the river construction is completed, our dynasty will be more perfect. At that time, the court can abolish all the tyrants and miscellaneous taxes, and even the two taxes for those under the fourth-class households can be all reduced."

As for the people with third-class households or above, they are all small landlords, middle-class landlords and big landlords. They are exempted from their two taxes and their heads will not be broken.

But this cost is quite a lot.

How much is the expenditure of each prefecture and county? It is difficult to count the accounts of the three departments.

But Wang Ju, who has been a local official in the local area for many years, can make an estimate in his mind, at least no less than 10 million yuan, and it is still a new capital.

Now the two taxes have been reduced to 38 million by Wang Ju, of which the fourth-class households account for at least 25 million. Don’t ask how much land those above the third-class households occupy, how much two taxes can they expect to pay?

This 25 million yuan is worth a new bank, and it will be nearly 20 million yuan. If it is not reduced or exempted, it will be stopped. Once the small treasury of various prefectures and counties is reduced and exempted, it will emerge from the water together with various floating fees.

So if you want to do this, the country will reduce its income by 35 million yuan.

Wang Ju estimated these accounts roughly, and after a brief statement, he said: "But at that time, the three southern routes could slightly transfusion blood to the court. With the current financial situation, the country could still generate a surplus of 10 or 20 million yuan a year, and this did not include the savings of military expenses and the expenses incurred by the Northwest War. Moreover, doing so would effectively crack down on the annexation of the powerful people in various places."

If a household with a fourth-class or below does not pay two taxes, and if a household with a third-class or above continues to pay two taxes, the merger will not be of great value, and of course it will play the role of the crackdown on mergers as Wang Ju said.

"Maybe there are policies from the top and countermeasures from the bottom. At that time, more major owners may divide their industries into fourth-class and fifth-class households. However, doing so will eventually be illegal and cannot be made public. If it reaches that point, the country can be called a move from small governance to large governance, which can also be compared with Wen and Jing's governance, or even surpass it."

"From the reform of Jiefu Gong to the improvement and correction of the ministers, at least in terms of national fiscal and taxation, our dynasty has been completely renewed. However, there is one of the most important prerequisites: Don't destroy this system. It is difficult to destroy construction but it is easy. But it will be difficult to build after the destruction..."

This is for all ministers to listen to.

Then what Gao Taotao wants to do in the future will encounter great resistance.

However, many ministers also heard the implication of Wang Ju's words. In the past few decades, don't want to recover Yan Yun, which also shows Wang Ju's calmness and soberness. But they were wrong. Whether to collect Yan Yun or not depends on the promotion of grains in the Liao Kingdom. If all the Jurchens come down from the horse, they can collect Yan Yun. If the recovery fails, at most the two countries deteriorate. With the current situation of Liao Kingdom, it will not threaten the Song Dynasty. If the recovery is successful, it is undoubtedly a great deal.

But the Jurchens did not get off the horse and still maintained the fierce folk customs. Wang Ju was really afraid. These were the ethnic minorities who entered the Central Plains twice. How many nomadic people did it?

"Maybe some people think I am worried about it, why do I highly respect Duke Qi? It's not because of Duke Qi's support for me. After the Xining reform, it caused controversy among all parties. Until the reign of Princess Qi, although the reform continued, the controversy gradually became smaller."

"Our dynasty has no top powerful ministers, but if Duke Zhao Pu goes down, then Duke Lu Duxun goes down, and Duke Kou Lai goes down. Even if Ding Wei goes down, then he will go down. But although Duke Wen is in Chizhou, I have always been very afraid. Why? Whether Duke Zhao Pu or Ding Wei, there are only a few around them, but there are a lot of people behind Duke Wen."

"All family is harmonious, and everything is prosperous, and it is the harm of the country and party struggles. From the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, no matter which historical book can be seen, your Majesty and I insist that once Duke Wen becomes the prime minister again, many systems formulated by me will inevitably overthrow one by one."

"Duke Wen is old and it is inappropriate to be in the south. I will issue an order today to let him retire." Zhao Xu said tactfully.

But Mao Yong, as long as Sima Guang and Wen Yanbo are not dead, Wang Juxin will be uneasy.

However, the Song Dynasty had this system. Could it be that the two guys were ordered to be executed?

"Mr. Fan, in terms of financial management skills, you are not the best in the Song Dynasty. Why did Your Majesty regard you as your prime minister? It is because of you who are gentle in character and want to use you to regulate the relationship between all parties, calm the country and resolve the struggles of the party. Please remember it."

Although Wang Ju's methods of doing things are very tough, his words before leaving also touched some ministers.

Wang Ju looked at everyone again, and there was nothing else to explain, so he said, "I have said that for three years, your Majesty will support the improvement of the financial situation of the court. But there are still many things that I have not fulfilled, which makes me very ashamed. However, the three-year agreement is coming soon, so I went to the Secretariat to briefly explain, and then I will issue an edict to migrate the people. I will go to Shaanxi."
To be continued...