Zhao Xu was puzzled, "It's not the royal land, and it's not in the Central Plains, so where are these lands?" ”

Yang Huairen raised his chin to the west, "In the west." ”

Zhang Dian immediately reacted, and asked with some surprise, "What Yang Jungong said, but the original land of Western Xia?" ”

Yang Huairen nodded, "What Zhang Xianggong said is right, it is the land that the Great Song Dynasty got from Western Xia after this Song-Xia War. ”

Zhang was stunned. After the end of the war, a large area of the territory of Western Xia had entered the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and it was originally customary that the land in the northwest frontier should be divided into military fields to support the border army.

Zhang Dian also thought about it so much before, just thinking about dealing with it according to his previous habits, but Yang Huairen suddenly brought it up now, and he realized that what he was thinking about before was completely wrong.

The land area of Western Xia is actually very large, but in addition to the fertile fields and pastures to the east of Helan Mountain, there are large areas of Gobi and desert to the west, and fields and pastures are relatively scarce.

And this time, the Great Song Dynasty defeated the Western Xia and occupied the part of the good land east of Helan Mountain, and the royal family and court of the Western Xia have been driven to the barren land in the northwest, and without fertile land and pastures, they can only fend for themselves.

Zhang Dian originally planned to use these good lands to raise soldiers and pastures to raise horses, but now it seems that the Western Xia is finished, and the Northwest Frontier Army still maintains such a large establishment, is it a bit redundant?

Before he could clear his thoughts, he thought about Yang Huairen and asked, "Yang Jungong said in more detail. ”

Yang Huairen continued, "Originally, those fertile fields and pastures in the Western Xia had raised a large number of Tangut people, and now the Tangut people have been driven to the north of the mountain, and most of the people who remain on that land are actually Han Chinese.

The land that can be used before does not belong to the Han people, and most of the Han people are actually cultivating for the party members, and they can obtain relatively little food and benefits.

Now those lands are the land of our Great Song Dynasty, in order to maintain this piece of land, in addition to a certain military existence, the most important thing is to further turn the Han people who originally belonged to Western Xia into the people of the Great Song Dynasty.

We are only occupying these lands now, and if we do not gain the recognition of the local people, then this land will not really belong to the Great Song Dynasty.

If you want the local people to have a sense of identity with the Great Song Dynasty and Your Majesty, you must let them have land and property, and live a good life that they did not live before.

In this way, when other countries come to compete with the Great Song Dynasty for this land, the local people will be the first to stand up and defend their homeland and interests. ”

Zhang Dian kept nodding his head in approval, and seemed to gradually understand Yang Huairen's intentions.

"What does Yang Jungong mean by using the land as a reward for those meritorious soldiers?"

"Yes," Yang Huairen said, "If those lands are placed in the Central Plains, they don't sound like much, but in the sparsely populated northwest borderland, even if they are a lot of fertile land."

Your Majesty can make a decree that the people who occupy the land will distribute a certain amount of land evenly according to the number of people, so that they can be self-sufficient, and they will naturally be grateful to Your Majesty, and gradually develop a sense of identity with the Great Song Dynasty and Your Majesty, and after ten years, they will regard themselves as Song people.

The land allocated to them should not be too much or too little, and it would be enough to ensure that they would have a good life, while the remaining land would be used as a reward for meritorious soldiers.

There may be soldiers who feel that their family is in the Central Plains and cannot enjoy the benefits of those lands, but this is not impossible to solve.

The land given to the soldiers was mixed with the land allocated to the local people, and the local people were allowed to cultivate the soldiers' fields as tenants.

In this way, the local people could receive a certain percentage of the grain as payment, and the wealth after paying the land tax was handed over to the soldiers who owned the land.

The people helped to farm the fields and got their due benefits, the imperial court had taxes, and the soldiers would have a long-term and stable additional income in the future.

These incomes may not be much for a year, but in the long run, owning land that can continue to generate wealth will benefit the soldiers for a longer period of time than the one-time reward of gold and silver from His Majesty.

And with such a long-term income, the soldiers will be more loyal to His Majesty. ”

Zhang Dan smiled and said, "This is a good idea, kill three birds with one stone." ”

Zhao Xu actually heard it in a fog, although Yang Huairen's idea sounded a little unbelievable, but after thinking about it, it was indeed a method that was beneficial to all parties.

The Great Song Dynasty has more land and the people, and the new people have created more wealth with the new land, so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment, and at the same time, it has also given the imperial court more financial revenue, and importantly, it has also made the emperor loved by the people and soldiers, and solved the problem that the inner government does not have enough cash to reward the soldiers, which is not just a triple win.

Even Zhang Xianggong praised Yang Huairen's idea, and Zhao Xu had no reason not to think that this idea was good.

"Well, Yang Aiqing's idea is really good, so I want to ask, how much land does Aiqing want for this great hero?"

Yang Huairen saw Zhao Xu take the initiative to bring it up, and his heart was overjoyed.

"Back to Your Majesty, Weichen wants a large piece of land, but not a good land where food can be grown, but a wasteland that no one wants."

"Oh?"

Zhao Xu smiled, "You don't want good land, you want wasteland, why is this?" ”

Yang Huairen said, "Wechen doesn't dare to hide it from Your Majesty, Wechen doesn't want good land, because Wechen doesn't need the income of good land to support his family."

And Weichen wants a large area of wasteland because he wants to build a foreign trade base in the northwest. ”

"Build a foreign trade base? Interesting, let's hear it. ”

"Weichen has thought about it, now that the Great Song Dynasty has opened up the trade route with the Western Regions, and is no longer restricted by the Western Xia, the future business exchanges between the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Regions will definitely be much more prosperous than now.

The Great Song Dynasty was rich in products, and the Song people could sell goods to the Western Regions to make money, and at the same time, they could bring back some goods from the Western Regions to enrich the lives of the people of the Great Song Dynasty.

In the past, the way of doing business, going back and forth between the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia, the cost of manpower and material resources was very high, and only some big merchants had the ability to send caravans to the Western Regions to do business.

On the transportation artery between the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Regions, the establishment of a commercial base solved many problems, and the Song people and merchants from the Western Regions could trade here, saving a lot of unnecessary costs, and at the same time, the imperial court could collect more commercial taxes and increase the income of the imperial court.

In addition, in the future, if this commercial base is large, another military post can be established to protect the past merchants, and at the same time, it will also become an important military base of the Great Song Dynasty in the northwest to protect the security of the new land of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

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