The Great Song Dynasty has always paid attention to high salaries and honesty, but the imperial court has raised anyone who has a little fame, and even if it is a loose official with a false title, the imperial court also sends salaries as usual.

This is a big problem, it doesn't matter if you respect the literati, but a scholar is raised for nothing like a pig, and this is a big problem.

The imperial court is really not stingy in spending money in this regard, with an average of one real official for one post, and two to three false and scattered officials, which is equivalent to the imperial court spending two to three times more money to support a position, needless to say how great the financial pressure is.

The tax revenue and fiscal revenue of the Northern Song Dynasty surpassed that of all dynasties, but the money was used to support idle officials, and in addition to the lack of food in the treasury, the real money and silver were really not enough to spend.

In peacetime, there was a surplus, but if a war was launched, the treasury and state funds would immediately bottom out, which may be an important reason why the Song Dynasty court was extremely reluctant to start a war.

But the more Yang Huairen thought about this, the more afraid he became, although it is said that soldiers can improve a lot of military skills through training, but fundamentally speaking, elite troops and strong soldiers are all fought.

Only the soldiers who survived the test of the cruel war will have the opportunity to become a real elite division, and call the forbidden troops in the forbidden army in the capital who ride tall horses and wear flowers and branches as elites, which is not troublesome.

Others don't know, Yang Huairen knows, the change of Jingkang in the original history, the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty was vulnerable, and the fact that one or two thousand forbidden troops were driven away by one or two thousand Jurchen elite horses was really shameful.

Now, although the forbidden army has experienced the war of conquering the west, Yang Huairen knows that the border army on Qinfeng Road in the northwest is the main force, and the forbidden army is actually following behind to pick up military merits.

That's it, it can't be said that the army of the Great Song Dynasty is stronger than that of the Western Xia, there is no doubt that the Western Xia army is strong, if it weren't for the discord between the Empress Dowager Liang and his brother Liang Yi, and the sister deliberately stabbed her brother in the back, it is really hard to say what the outcome of this war was.

Maybe the Great Song Dynasty will still win, but compared with the gains and the gains, the Great Song Dynasty will obviously lose more than it gains, let alone destroy the Western Xia.

Fortunately, the Great Song Dynasty was lucky, and encountered the internal strife of Western Xia, and the major families of the party did not want to fight for their own interests, which eventually led to the collapse of the Xia army.

The Western Xia was destroyed in this way, and the Great Song Dynasty occupied a large area of land in the Yellow River Valley in the south that was suitable for agriculture in the Western Xia, but the Liao State benefited more, and the large grasslands of the Helan Mountain generation were all owned by the Liao State.

Of course, in order to break the situation of Liaoxia uniting to restrict the Great Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty had no choice but to pay these things, and the Liao State could not offend at present, so it could only give benefits to appease.

The Western Xia court was divided, and the party and nobles each brought their own clansmen and soldiers and horses to divide the king, and the Empress Dowager Liang took the young emperor of the Western Xia Dynasty to ask for help from the Qingtang Dynasty, but she didn't expect it to be a sheep into the mouth of the tiger.

The remaining party and aristocratic separatist forces are no longer a country, and they can't afford to set off any big storms, and the Liao State will naturally slowly eliminate them in order to occupy their pastures.

What the Great Song Dynasty wanted was only to open up the ancient trade route of the Silk Road, and from then on, the northwest not only did not have the harassment of the Western Xia, but also had an additional trade route that could bring a lot of income to the imperial court.

After opening up the territory and opening up trade routes, the imperial court naturally had to send officials to govern the country, and a large number of officials were stationed in the new land, which reduced a lot of pressure on the redundant status quo of officials in the Great Song Dynasty.

Yang Huairen thought of this, and thought that if the Great Song Dynasty could also have such a war in the south, such as destroying the disobedient Jiaozhi, would it also have such an effect.

So think about it, whether it's for manufacturing, industry and commerce, agriculture or fishing, there are so many resources in the south that there's no reason not to take advantage of them.

In order to further solve the problem of redundancy of court officials, the conquest of Jiaozhi can be said to be a beneficial and harmless move for the Great Song Dynasty.

As soon as Yang Huairen's idea was proposed, Cen Xiaonian did not dare to directly oppose it, but he also put forward some views.

First of all, the Great Song Dynasty will not use troops without permission, after all, the Jiaozhi State is still under the name of a vassal state, and if the Great Song Dynasty sends troops to attack Jiaozhi, it will cause suspicion and dissatisfaction among other vassal states.

The emperor and those court bigwigs have always liked to regard themselves as the superior kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and they have always treated vassal states and small countries that claim to pay tribute.

Secondly, although Cochin is not large and the population is not large, it is definitely not as weak as Yang Huairen imagined, and the country of Cochin is said to be 200,000 armored, but it is not the wild southern barbarian that Yang Huairen thinks.

Third, to put it bluntly, a large area of the country is still a tropical rainforest, and there are many wild beasts, snakes, insects, rats and ants in the rainforest, and there are many swamps and swamps, and the army of the Great Song Dynasty is not adapted to fighting in this environment at all.

The Jiaozhi people have lived in such an environment for generations, and they have already adapted to it, and the Great Song army went, and I am afraid that a large number of people will fall ill before the war starts.

Even if they can occupy the towns of the Cochin people by force, who will be left to protect them? The Jiaozhi people would constantly jump out of the jungle to launch counterattacks, and after the occupation of the Great Song Dynasty, they would also be harassed and annoyed, and it would be difficult to form an actual rule.

The next problem to face is that the imperial court simply cannot afford a large-scale war at the moment, and the Xiang army in Lingnan is very weak, and it is impossible to be the opponent of the Jiaozhi army.

It is simply unrealistic to use the border army, which has adapted to the dry climate of the northwest, and its combat strength will definitely decline sharply in the hot and humid climate of Cochin.

Moreover, although the Western Xia was gone, the border army still had to face the armies of the Tibetan tribes, the Uighurs, and the Liao State, and there was so much land to be guarded by the border army, and it was really impossible to free up extra soldiers and horses.

As for the forbidden army, it is even more expected, the forbidden army from the capital to Jiaozhi to fight, than to go to the Western Xia to fight farther and more difficult, military expenditure may be greater than the Western War, the imperial court is absolutely not this money.

The key is that the combat strength of the forbidden army is not very good, and a group of soldiers and horses led by the commander of the commander of the rank and grandson can share the fruits of victory with the rear of the border army, and it is okay to really treat them as the main force to fight on the battlefield, I can't believe it.

In the end, Cen Xiaonian even tactfully reminded Yang Huairen that the whole idea of using a lot of resources in the south is very good, but it is a pity that it is really too difficult to turn the idea into reality.

What's more, Yang Huairen, as the prince, is different from before, and he is not suitable for participating in politics, this is the tradition of the Great Song Dynasty, no matter how good Yang Huairen is, it seems that he is not suitable to manage these military affairs.

Cen Xiaonian even advised Yang Huairen that since he came to Jiangnan, it would already be a great credit to be able to rectify the officials in Jiangnan, and the common people now regard Yang Huairen as a virtuous king.

Next, it is better to enjoy happiness in Jiangnan, and take good care of Princess Anguo to recuperate, there is really no need to put a burden on your spine.