As Lu Yijian bowed his head and surrendered, the offensive and defensive battle that had been incessant between the two governments since July last year came to an end. But a new question immediately surfaced: How to defend? Who to send to defend?
This is another new problem.
The counselors of the main government and the deputy envoys of the Privy Council began to frown.
Because even if the main defense is in charge, there are still Fan Zhongyan's plan, Zhang Fangping's plan, Du Yan's plan and the ten strategies proposed by Xia Song in the letter.
In addition, how much money will it cost to build the Zizhai Fortress to completely block the Western Bandits to the west of Hengshan?
This is another big problem.
Lu Yijian naturally thought of these questions immediately.
Thereupon, a smile appeared on his face, and soon the Prime Minister bowed his head and said: "I am so bold, I beg the Duke to make it clear that if we use defensive measures, how can we keep the thieves out of the country?"
This is the character and temper of this old prime minister.
Even if he loses, he will never make his opponents and enemies feel better.
Even if the other party is a senior, a superior, or even an official.
Make him feel uncomfortable too!
If Lu Yijian had asked this question, if it were anyone else, even if it was Fan Zhongyan or Yin Zhu, a famous official who was familiar with Western affairs and had a deep understanding of Western affairs, I am afraid that for a while, he would not be able to come up with any good ideas, or even a strategy.
There is no way, there is no room for carelessness in military matters.
Moreover, the area bordering the Song Dynasty and the area controlled by Yuan Hao's rebels was quite large.
From Jingyuan Road to Qiyan Road, Huanqing Road, and the three states outside Hewai, it covers a vast area of two to three thousand miles.
The geography and environment are extremely complex, and starting from Taizong, the Song Dynasty had a huge headache.
Otherwise, how could Yuan Hao be so arrogant?
Unfortunately, Lu Yijian faced Zhao Xin.
A reborn person who ruled this country for more than thirty years in his previous life, and at the peak of his ruling career, he destroyed Xixia.
Naturally, Zhao Xin had already implemented a practical plan that could starve Xixia to death west of Hengshan.
Therefore, Zhao Xin did not panic at all when he heard this.
He smiled slightly in his father's arms, and then said: "I heard that last year, in order to compensate the orphans of the soldiers who died in the defeat of Mikawakou, and to boost morale and encourage the soldiers and civilians to kill thieves, the state gave away one million yuan.
Losing to Shaanxi...is this a thing?"
Lu Yijian nodded and replied: "It is true!"
"I also heard that since the rebellion of the Western Bandits, the country has often lost millions of dollars a year..." Zhao Xin asked again: "Yuantai, is this true?"
"It's true!" Lu Yijian nodded again.
But I just don’t know what kind of medicine this Duke of Shou is selling in his gourd?
Zhao Xin listened, but smiled and said: "I have also heard that the bandits from the west have raised troops, and wealthy businessmen and landlords from Qiyan, Huanqing, and Jingyuan have fled one after another, and many of their lands have been ruined...
Is this about this?"
Lu Yijian listened and nodded again.
"Buy their land!" Zhao Xin raised his head, looked at Lu Yijian, and said resolutely: "Now that there are wars, the land prices in the three roads will inevitably fall sharply. The government and the Privy Council should have noticed this a long time ago.
?We should also start buying land, merging land, and resuming land, right?”
The Song Dynasty was different from all previous Chinese dynasties.
The Song Dynasty did not suppress annexations or property purchases, but it resolutely abolished slavery and strictly restricted landlords' power and other people's personal freedom.
Since mergers are not suppressed, there must be another way to balance domestic wealth and give the bottom farmers a way out.
Therefore, the Song Dynasty used the official land system in an innovative way.
In the previous life, when Zhao Xin ascended the throne, there were political advisors who reported to him the specific situation of the entire country according to the system.
So he learned that at that time, the total number of privately cultivated land by registered officials in the Song Dynasty was more than 8 million hectares.
Among them, the number of official farmland is 320,000 hectares, accounting for about 4% of the total cultivated land.
But a few years later, when Wang Anshi was Prime Minister, he reported that the amount of official land had reached 580,000 hectares, accounting for 7% of the total cultivated land. Therefore, he requested that 200,000 hectares of it be sold.
In order to balance the official and private land reclamation, all the people in the world can "improve the virtue of His Majesty".
Did you find anything?
In the Northern Song Dynasty, the state was the will to rebalance social wealth and land by selling or acquiring land.
When the number of official land is lower than a certain number, the state uses the three divisions and the main government to direct local governments to acquire and purchase large amounts of land. When the number of official land is higher than a certain number, the excess land is transferred to the government through the government.
sell.
Just like Changpingcang, the official land controlled by the state is the balancer of social prices and wealth.
And where is the private person the opponent of the state?
In particular, the Song Dynasty was a unified and centralized civil society.
Therefore, the Song Dynasty always controlled a large amount of land!
Lu Yijian listened, but she didn't quite understand what Zhao Xin wanted to say.
He asked in confusion: "My lord, I am ignorant. I don't know what my lord wants to do when he asks this matter."
Zhao Xin smiled, jumped from her father's arms to the bed, and then rummaged through the piles of imperial newspapers, memorials, and customs papers piled on the bed, and finally found an old, yellowed memorial.
Then, he opened the book and turned to the middle page. Then he lifted the book with all his strength and showed it to his father as if it were a treasure: "Aye, Aye, look, there is the Emperor Zhenzong on it.
, the famous general Cao Gong’s request and Emperor Zhenzong’s approval..."
So, Zhao Zhen leaned over and saw the lines of text on the yellowed book.
"Wei Mo, a minister of Zhenrong Army, died and wrote: The barbaric conditions of Sichuan and Plains in the military territory make it convenient for cavalry warfare, which is not in China's advantage... I am brave, please recruit the border people as archers... Please give me free land in the territory and rent it forever.
During the Spring and Autumn plowing, send out troops to protect it!"
Under these words, Emperor Zhenzong's imperial written instructions are particularly eye-catching: The order is like a wreath, set up archers along the border, recruit people to guard the border, give two hectares of land, one armored man, and three hectares of land, one war horse.
Horses, set up forts and troops, line up troops, supplement the commanders and envoys below!
Then, Zhao Zhen thought about it. It seemed that in Tianshengzhong, some courtiers requested that the archers along the border be disbanded. The reason was that these people did not pay taxes and were very domineering, which was not conducive to local security.
When Fan Yong, the Shaanxi transit envoy at the time, heard about it, he immediately wrote to the late Empress Dowager Zhang Xianmingsu and argued hard to prevent the order from being carried out.
But after that, few people talked about it.
In the official documents and newspapers of the country, the word "archer" is rarely mentioned.
Confused in his heart, Zhao Zhen heard the immature but resolute voice of his beloved son: "Since Baoyuan, the state has paid millions of dollars a year for the Western thieves. In addition, it also needs pensions, relief for soldiers, generals and commanders, and exemptions for literati, officials, and border residents.
, it’s a waste of money!”
"As for the three roads of Qiyan, Jingyuan and Huanqing, there are so many people fleeing today and much of the land is abandoned. If the central government spends millions of dollars, it can acquire more than 200,000 hectares of land!"
"Two hundred thousand hectares of fertile land is enough to support ten thousand archers!"
"I also heard that there is a lot of wasteland along the border. Let the people cultivate it to train archers, and they can raise ten thousand more!"
"Moreover, we can recruit the cooked people from Hengshan Mountain, just like the system of Chinese archers, and have them cultivate the land to defend themselves!"
"In this way, the country only spends three to five million yuan, but it can achieve long-term peace and stability along the border, and it can also prevent the western thieves from venturing eastward!"
