Tianjin City, the Head of State Palace.

Wu Yijiu, who finally sat on the throne of the head of the head, slept peacefully. On the eighth day of the eighth month, he appeared in the hall of the head of the head of the palace in full spirit and presided over the ruling meeting for the first time.

The Zhou government implemented the head of state responsibility system, but it was also assigned to the left and right prime ministers. Below the two prime ministers, there were only the six ministries and the six supervisors. There was also a Dujunmaster who was directly responsible to the head of state.

The ruling meeting was the highest decision-making meeting of the Zhou government. In addition to the head of state, the two prime ministers, the military commanders, the six ministers and the six supervisors were usually attended.

Today's meeting was the first time Wu Yijiu presided over the ruling meeting, so everything he should have arrived.

"Chen Junji," Wu Yijiu glanced at Chen Jian and ordered, "You talk first."

Chen Jian owed Wu Yijiu's lower body, and then said, "I just received the report and the State of Song has started a war with us!"

"What!?"

"How is that possible?"

"Is it a friction at the border?"

At present, many senior officials from the republics exclaimed. The Great Zhou Dynasty is also in a turmoil. The rebel Ao Luwu of the Eastern Liao Dynasty has not been settled, the war with the Jin Kingdom has not ended, and Wu Haogu is still alive and his life and death are uncertain. How can he go to war with the Song Dynasty again?

Even if you want to fight, you have to come one by one!

Zhang Zhifeng coughed and said in a deep voice: "The war has indeed begun! Our South Bank No. 1 Basin has been occupied by the Song army!

The war between the Great Zhou Republic and the Song Kingdom has broken out!"

Occupy a prism?

How is this possible!?

Now the senior officials in charge of the government were stunned and all looked at Wu Yijiu in a daze.

Wu Yijiu was calm and composed, "Fight! What's the matter? When was our republic afraid of war?

There are many sons in the 200,000 knights and 300,000 knights and the military soldiers, all of whom have grown up, waiting to make meritorious contributions to the land... Fighting against the Jin Kingdom, not so many lands can be divided into Dongliao! Only Song Kingdom!

There are many workshops in Tianjin, Yanjing, and Xuande Mansion that want to build weapons for the army. If you fight against the Jin Kingdom and Dongliao, you can't spend money on it. In other words, the Song Kingdom is rich and you won't lose money no matter how hard you fight.

The black soil in the Liaohe River Basin is also harvested every year, and the grain has been too long since eaten and cannot be sold. It is time to collect it as a military ration in a war!

This is really a joy! What do you think?"

Why does it sound like frame-up?

Left Prime Minister Mi Youren whispered: "The old head of state and the Song Dynasty have a deep friendship, and the two families are the favorites of Qin and Jin..."

Wu Yijiu smiled: "My father was kind to the officials of the Song Dynasty, so it is naturally not convenient for him to turn against him.

Moreover, a few years ago, the knights and soldiers in the family were young and could not join the army, so there was no soldiers available when the war suddenly started. Liaohe River and Goryeo also needed time to reclaim and resettle.

But now I am the head of state! The knights and the men of the military are gradually growing up. The development of Liaohe and Goryeo has also begun to show results. It is time to use troops!"

The officials in the hall now understood that Wu Yijiu had laid a trap for the Song army.

Now the State of Song occupies a bastion of the State of Zhou! The evidence of launching a war of aggression is conclusive.

This is the desire of imperialism to destroy me! The Great Zhou Republic has reached its most dangerous time! Can we still resist and defend our country?

Right Prime Minister Su Guo shook his head, "Head of War, Song is a big country with a territory of thousands of miles and a population of hundreds of millions. Our Zhou country is a small country with a population of only more than 10 million. And... it is easy to defeat the Song Dynasty, but it is difficult to swallow the Song Dynasty! Once the war begins, it is possible for decades to last. I hope the leader will think twice!"

He paused and changed his subject, "If our country could make a little more accommodating in land and the strategy of seizing scholars, banning annexation and opening statutes to recruit scholars. It would be possible to be supported by scholars and officials, and it would be impossible to take the Song Dynasty within ten years."

Su Guo's words were not against the war, but proposed a strategy to quickly destroy the Song Dynasty.

It is to win over the literati!

The Song Dynasty ruled the world with the scholars and officials. The interests of scholars and officials were in two aspects: one was private ownership of land; the other was the imperial examination.

If Zhou State could meet their requirements to a certain extent, it would be nothing wrong to replace the emperor with a head of state.

"We also have private land in our country," Wu Yiji said, "It is just a taxation law! You work as a soldier and pay taxes on private land. As for the imperial examination... If you want to be an official, you can go to the university, go to the army to make meritorious service, and run for public office. There are many opportunities."

The Zhou State did not have much private land, mainly because the land area of ​​Zhou State was limited and the cultivated land was only more than 100 million acres. After maintaining 300,000 soldiers, there were not many left after the Knights. Therefore, there were not many landlords and self-cultivated farmers other than military citizens, but not without them.

For example, there are many noble landlords in Yan land, and the Wu family has many private land. In Goryeo, there are 100,000 medium-sized self-cultivated farmers, and each household has 50 acres of land, all of which are tax-paying private land. In Liaodong and western Liaoning, there are also a small number of nobles and farmers who own private land.

But the absolute mainstream is still Yitian!

The Song Dynasty now has 600 million mu of land. After the Great Zhou annexed the Song Dynasty, it is certainly impossible to complete the 600 million mu of land into vocational land. There must be millions of knights and government soldiers, and there are too many. Therefore, a large amount of tax-paying private land will definitely be retained.

However, the private land management in Zhou State was very strict, and tax evasion and hidden land were absolutely not allowed. Since the officials of Zhou State had to have citizenship, most of the grassroots officials who worked outside several industrial and commercial cities were military citizens who did not have private land. Of course, they would not be ruthless when collecting taxes in clear fields!

Moreover, there is a competitive economic relationship between private fields and vocational fields. If private fields can be hidden and evaded taxes, then the military service vocational fields will be at a disadvantage in the competition. In turn, there will be a situation where the vocational fields manors go bankrupt or have difficulty in operation, and the civilian system of the Great Zhou Dynasty will not be maintained.

Therefore, the Great Zhou regime is not very friendly to private land, and holding private land cannot obtain satisfactory returns.

If the Zhou government brought this attitude towards private land to the land that belongs to Song, it would probably have a big rebound. Once the Zhou State concessions on the issue of private land, the private land households and military citizens in the Zhou State would be hit!

On the issue of the imperial examination, Wu Yijiu had no room for concessions because the official system of Zhou State did not leave room for the imperial examination system.

Zhou State also had a route to becoming an official in the exam, but the official positions obtained by passing the exam were very low, and they were just officials in the Song Dynasty. It was simply unimaginable to get a county lieutenant in the exam!

If graduates from Yuntai Academy want to enter the official position, they can only start with small officials at the level of officials. How can they allow rural literati to become a senior official at the level of county lieutenant?

Moreover, the imperial examination system has a great negative effect - disarming the landlord class!

From the perspective of cost and benefit, studying and taking the imperial examination is much more cost-effective than joining the army to fight. The former is not only safe, but also has little investment. The latter may be life-threatening and investment is also great.

Therefore, once the imperial examination system is introduced into the Zhou State, it will inevitably cause the military citizen class to gradually turn to imperial examinations to recruit talents, and the combat effectiveness will naturally gradually collapse.

Su Guo shook his head and said, "The rules of private land in our country are very strict, which is tantamount to the harsh rule of the Song people. The cost of academies and academies is high. If they have to bear it privately, only wealthy businessmen can afford it. Our country is still okay. If they pass the world, they will eliminate the path of the poor family's rise. I am afraid that countless opponents will increase, making the battle between Zhou and Song dynasties prolonged!"

Wu Yi suddenly let out a deep voice: "Then let it last for a long time! Our republic is unprecedented in two or three thousand years. The world is like the division between the Qin and Han Dynasties. If you spend decades of hard work, what's wrong with the family, country, the world, and the world, and the public?"

From a certain perspective, the battle between Song and Zhou will be more intense than the battle between Song and Jin in history!

Because in the eyes of the Song people, the Jurchen barbarians could not unify the world, so the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty could beg for mercy and survive. The Great Zhou republic and the world was the Lord, of course, could have the world in the Song Dynasty.

In this way, it would be difficult to have room for compromise when the war between Song and Zhou dynasties is in trouble!

In addition, the advantages of fair and cheap imperial examinations have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people of the Song Dynasty. The imperial examinations are not only a channel for the rise of poor families, but also bear the function of rural wealth distribution - if you pass the imperial examination and become a landlord, you will decline if you fail for several generations. It is very fair!

If the Zhou State insisted on the route of abolishing the imperial examination and suppressing annexation, the conflicts between the Zhou State and the scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty would be difficult to reconcile.

Wu Yiji paused, "Everyone, now the Song State is provoking a war, and he wants to destroy the foundation of our Republic when the Great Zhou State is in chaos! Now the Song gang has arrived at the capital of Tianjin, and the Republic can only fight behind the city!"

He suddenly stood up, pressed his hands on the rectangular conference table, raising his voice: "As the acting head of state, I suggest that the ruling meeting immediately propose the bill of 'general mobilization' and 'declaration of war on Song', and then convene a meeting of the Senate to vote!"

“Agree to carry out a general mobilization and declare war!”

"Address!"

"Mobilize immediately and declare war immediately!"

"After the proposal, the troops are at the capital gate and there is no way to retreat!"

Although there is still controversy over how to destroy the Song Dynasty, not only did the ruling meeting quickly reach an agreement on the issue of declaration of war and general mobilization, but the Senate and the entire Tianjin city also reached a consensus later!

The No. 1 Fortress in the South Bank occupied by the Song State is not a colony located in the Nanyang Sea, but is located at the gate of the capital of the Great Zhou State. It belongs to Tianjin Prefecture in terms of administrative divisions!

Although the Zhou Kingdom was large, the Zhou people had no way out because Tianjin was behind them!

When the news of the Song State betrayal and attacking the Tianjin Prefecture Fortress spread in Tianjin City, the capital of the Great Zhou Republic suddenly became excited.

Countless citizens and civilians flocked to the Republic Square, crowded in front of the Senate Building, shouting the slogans of "Defend the Republic" and "Down with Song Kou". Of course, these people are not only good at talking. As citizens and civilians of the Great Zhou Dynasty, they are all real people who are happy when they hear the war!

And this time the enemy is the rich Da Song!

Get rich!

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