Zheng Lang doesn't care much about Wang Ze, a god stick, what is there to be afraid of, but the national hero of later generations, a little troublesome, only a little troublesome, the most troublesome is Meishanman and Kuizhou tyrants. He was doing the most crucial step in the Privy Council.

Layoffs!

But at the beginning of the reduction, it was an increase in troops.

If you want to give it, give it first, what the Master said.

came to the spy camp and asked Wang Yong, there should be a big change in Xixia soon. However, the postponement of the Battle of the Meander is not too sure. And I also like in my heart that if everything continues to develop according to the direction of history, my efforts will be useless.

Therefore, Wang Song stayed in the northwest and did not come back.

Wang Yong greeted him.

After Wang Song left, the training of the special agent camp was a little looser, after all, Wang Yong was not as evil as Wang Song.

Zheng Lang asked, "Have you picked a good candidate?" ”

"People have picked up, I don't know if it's okay?" Wang Yong replied timidly. He also didn't understand the south, including Di Qingnan's party, and sent two soldiers who were familiar with the south to guide. But what you are familiar with is only the familiar barbarian area, and the barbarian area, even the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, are also not close to the living.

"Give them to me."

After Zheng Lang finished speaking, he took the hundred people away, but did not directly stuff them to the south, but let the Fan family use various connections to enter various merchants' shops as partners, learn superficial management, and observe the ability to look at faces. It will take at least a month to think about it, starting in February, before they can be released. Then, in the name of a small trader, he infiltrated all over the south.

The news soon let Zhao Zhen know, and he came to the Privy Council in confusion and asked, "Zheng Qing, do you plan to send a hundred spies into the south?" ”

"yes."

"A hundred?"

"Yes."

"Why more than going to Western Xia?"

"The southern region is much larger, and it has to be so."

"But the South ......"

Zheng Lang understood Zhao Zhen's doubts.

The national conditions of the Song Dynasty are quite similar to those of later generations, becoming softer and softer, and the softer the careerists, the more careerists there are, regardless of Nong Zhigao's background. Who killed someone, and even smeared Di Qing as a lackey, exaggerating Di Qing with 500,000 people to destroy Nong Zhigao, did the Song Dynasty have this huge logistical capacity to send 500,000 people from the capital to Lingnan? In fact, this is Zhuangdu. Seeing that the country is getting softer and softer, he feels that there is an opportunity to take advantage of it, and dreams of restoring the Southern Heavenly Kingdom, deliberately reversing black and white, and some people who do not know the truth and like to overthrow themselves are fueled by the troubles. Zheng Lang doesn't care about the grievances of later generations.

He only focused on the Song Dynasty.

The root is the Zhao Kuangyin brothers. Their family is a small eunuch family, and when they see that they are in a small eunuch family, their lives are in danger at any time, so they hate this kind of situation where military generals control the government and do whatever they want. Including the open side, if you want to open the side, you must garrison troops. Once a garrison of military generals, it is easy to dictate power.

So Zhao Kuangyin waved a golden axe at the Dadu River, I don't want it, and it will not be beneficial for the court to ask for it. On the contrary, it is a drag on the imperial court and the people of the Central Plains, which is also inevitable, with the backward production conditions of the Song Dynasty, even if Zheng Lang now takes Xiangxi and Yungui, it is not for the benefit of the imperial court, but for the imperial court to add trouble. The second is not to give military generals a chance to specialize in troops.

That's the core idea.

So what policy did the Song Dynasty use to manage these tribes?

One is the economy, and the other is canonization.

This economy does not mean exploiting them and giving them money in a different way. Spend money on Ann.

The specific method is to use the field and tea horses, not all tea to exchange horses, later generations often say that the Song Dynasty had few horses, had to change horses from the south. This is a saying that I don't understand pedestrians, what is the effect of Nanma being replaced? Not hardy. The horse is not fast, has no explosive power, the horse is thin and small, and lacks the power to strike. Can such a horse go to war against the Khitan horse and the Western Xia horse? …,

On the contrary, because of Ma Gui tea, the imperial court not only paid tea, but also silk silk and copper coins, but the Rong people got money, all of which were sold as tools, and the Song Dynasty was short of money because of the lack of money, which seriously affected economic development.

In fact, Zheng Lang was very disgusted with this kind of policy.

It's not that the horse is over, the escort along the way, and the breeding in the future, will waste more money. It's better not to have this false name, and send them some money and tea directly. Anyway, it's to buy security, why bother to make a false name and hurt yourself more?

Of course, it is not absolute, and the war horses in the alpine regions exchanged for the Tubo people still work, but what good do the horses from other regions want?

But what Zheng Lang did was only slightly reduced, and he didn't dare to cut it off. In history, the Southern Song Dynasty and the Song Dynasty once interrupted the tea and horse trade, and the Qingtang Qiang of Lizhou forced and threatened the Song Dynasty to resume the tea and horse trade, gathered crowds to disturb the border, and forcibly demanded that the Song Dynasty exchange markets by force. The same is true of Western Xia, regardless of victory or defeat, because the Song Dynasty cut off trade, the people rebelled, saying that there was no tea for food, and clothes were expensive, but even if Yuan Hao was victorious, he still sued for peace. The tea and horse trade invented in the Song Dynasty was also regarded as a policy to control the western part of the country in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Zheng Lang thought about it for several years, but he couldn't figure out the real stakes.

The second way is to give a direct reward, so why worry about it? It's because they can't eat enough and don't have enough clothes, and if they are well fed and warm, why should these barbarians take the risk of starting a war?

In fact, whether it is a tea horse or a reward, it is all spending money to buy peace.

Zheng Lang believes that these barbarian uprisings are not legitimate uprisings, that is, the court is worthy of them, and the reason why they rebel is because they want to be dissatisfied, and they see the weak military strength of the Song Dynasty in the south, and they have ambitions.

The second is the canonization system.

Not only canonized, but also granted them a high degree of autonomy, allowing them to behave arbitrarily in their respective territories.

The imperial court also sent officials, who were only nominal representatives, and it was the major barbarian lords and lords who were actually in charge.

At least before Nong Zhigao, the Song Dynasty saw the effect. Although it was a little depressed and spent a lot of money, the south has always been safe. The Song Dynasty could also spare its energy to defend the north and the west.

In this context, Zhao Zhen does not want the south to be troubled.

Even if Zheng Lang said that Xiangjiang and Tanzhou were immortal halls in the sky, Zhao Zhen was not very interested.

Therefore, Zheng Lang immediately replied: "Your Majesty, you are prepared, and there are only a hundred secret agents, and the court does not spend much money, so you should have the right to raise an additional minister." ”

Zhao Zhen shook his head and smiled, and didn't ask again. After walking a few steps, he asked another question: "Why don't you send secret agents to Khitan?" ”

Others don't know, but Zhao Zhen knows Zheng Lang's ambitions. That's why it's strange that there are a hundred spies in the South. There were only thirty-six spies in the Western Xia, and none in the Khitan.

Zheng Lang replied: "Your Majesty, the Khitan is different from the south, and it is different from the Western Xia. I will not send spies into Western Xia. There were also spies in Western Xia who infiltrated our dynasty. Even if it is leaked, Western Xia is beyond reproach and will not reopen the border trouble because of this incident. The south is even more different, just take a look and learn about them, with the terrain and climate. Do not do anything other malicious. It is not easy to leak, and even if it is leaked, it is my territory and send soldiers to come and take a look at the situation, isn't it? Although the Khitan sent secret agents, the scale was not large, and they did not pay much attention to it. However, now the special service battalion is directly presided over by His Majesty himself, once it is leaked. It will inevitably cause strong dissatisfaction in the Khitan. Besides, the trend of the world is to wipe out Western Xia, which is also very far away. The Western Xia is not peaceful, why bother to provoke the displeasure of the Khitan, but let the two thieves turn their hatred into jade silk and join forces to fight against our dynasty. Therefore the minister deliberately did not disturb them. ”

"Yes," Zhao Zhen said weakly. In fact, even Xixia gradually didn't want to deal with it, so be it, the world is peaceful, how good.

Zheng Lang was on duty, Zhang Fangping came to the door again and asked, "That big competition." Will it continue this year? ”…,

This is what Zheng Lang played before Wang Ze's uprising, Zhao Zhen gladly allowed it, Zhao Zhen has always been not interested in cutting troops, and the finances are gradually improving, and the interest is even less great, but Zhao Zhen still likes it. In particular, it has increased to more than 600,000 baoding. Zhao Zhen also wanted to see the performance of these guards.

Zheng Lang nodded.

"Xingzhi, do you know this year's finances? The king rebelled, and after the pacification, he had to spend a lot of money to appease the people, reward the soldiers, and compensate the soldiers and officials who sacrificed. Sansi has so much money? ”

"How much money do you have left?" Zheng Lang suddenly became interested.

"Not much. If the inner reservoir is not thick, if there is a disaster next year, it will inevitably bottom out. ”

"Don't worry about it next year, it's really not good, sell the deed shares of Ping An Jian again." Zheng Lang said with a cheek. There will be something to do next year, and he said: "The long-term pain is better than the short-term pain, and if it is not as good as not increasing the troops, you cannot reduce the troops." The army is huge in number, but its combat effectiveness is very low, and the state finances cannot keep up......"

The main thing is that Zheng Lang pondered, he wouldn't stay in the Privy Council for a long time, and if these things were not arranged, could it be that after entering the Zhongshu, he forcibly interfered in the affairs of Xifu?

"Or, Xingzhi, can you ask me how much silk is in the inner storehouse?"

"I'm the minister of Xifu, how can I ask?" Zheng Lang replied. This is where the Song Dynasty system is forced to suffer, and said: "Your Majesty does not like to accumulate wealth, once there is wealth in the inner treasury, most of them like to quickly use it on the people or soldiers, and even if there is, there will not be many." ”

"How did you spend this money?" Although Zhang Fangping connected two folds, he still didn't figure it out.

Zheng Lang smiled, if he didn't work hard, the Song Dynasty would be worse in the future, Zhao Ji reached its peak when he ascended the throne, that was a special case, if the normal year was like that, the Song Dynasty would collapse. The death of an emperor and the reward of an emperor's accession to the throne in that year were two staggering figures, and together with the miscellaneous affairs, the state spent twice as much as its revenue in a year. The expenditure reached 240 million yuan, that is, more than 1,000 yuan per person. This was in the Song Dynasty, not in the later generations when science and technology were developed.

After laughing, he said, "Brother Andao, there is another strategy." ”

"What's the solution?"

"I once roughly estimated that if the various drawbacks of salt tea and wine alum are corrected, salt can bring at least 40 million yuan of salt profits to the country, tea can reach more than 10 million yuan, wine can reach 30 million yuan, and alum can reach 2 million yuan. Nowadays, there are only 8 million guans of salt, less than 15 million guans of wine, only 400,000 guans of tea, and only hundreds of thousands of guans of alum. There is a difference of nearly 60 million yuan, and if it can be scavenged, the treasury will be rich in two years. ”

Zhang Fangping squirted out a sip of tea and said, "Xingzhi, you want me to die early." ”

"What's the solution?"

"Is there an open source like the Ping An Prison, it's really not good, like the cane sugar workshop, it's okay to have a few more." Zhang Fangping thinks about this good thing every day.

Zheng Lang was also speechless. However, the three divisions of the Song Dynasty, who served who was hard, the best was Wang Yaochen and Wang Gongchen, when Wang Yaochen was in power, the three divisions were very sleepy, the country was not at war, a series of corrections, barely maintained, a slight surplus, this is the political achievement. Wang Gongchen's time was better, and the wind and rain were smooth for several years. So he gave Zhang Fangping a good foundation. When it came to Zhang Fangping, he began to be forced again. The main thing is that the foundation is still thin, if it is thick, Zhang Fangping will not be in a hurry like this.

Xu Xu said: "Didn't you see what I was doing?" ”

"Do what?"

"After the big competition. I will join forces with a few people and jointly propose the elimination of some of the weaker soldiers. The exemption law released some second, third and fourth class households, and commerce became more prosperous. In the longer term, there is the south, which is far away. But there is one, but it will not be very far. Cotton. ”…,

"Cotton?"

The Fan family and dozens of businessmen have joined hands to cultivate seeds of various crop species to improve and evolve. Cotton does not require as much water as rice, and the yield is high, making it more suitable for cultivation in the north than in the south. Once large-scale planting, it will also increase people's income and national taxes. ”

"But what about the food?"

"To the south, there is still a ...... future," Zheng Lang replied. This is helpless, the grain yield in the north is too low, and the yield of one mu of land is less than two stones, while the polders in the south have been improved by seeds. Approaching five stones, or even exceeding. If it passes Lingnan, three seasons. It can even reach six or seven stones. The north wants grain, one is the North Warehouse in Liaodong, which is unlikely, and the other is a few crops on the other side of the far eastern Pacific. Relying on this barley wheat sorghum, no matter how much you squeeze it, you can't squeeze out any space.

A miscellaneous grain allowed the Qing Dynasty to feed a population of 400 million, and if this population appeared in the Song, Tang, and Han dynasties, it would be a huge disaster. People can eat people everywhere. Another thing is that new technologies allow him to apply theory to practice, without which the knowledge he can impart may be close to the scientific theories of the mid-nineteenth century. In some respects, it has exceeded. Once new technologies are developed, there will be no problem for 400 million people, 1.8 billion people. This is what he is thinking about, whether there are four or five billion people on the whole earth at this time, or is it a huge question mark.

He also said: "Brother Antao, I'm already thinking about it, I'm planning, don't worry." But you have to take your time, and you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. You can't be in a hurry, just like salt tea and alum, you can't see its drawbacks? Why don't you dare to mention it? ”

"yes." Zhang Fangping sighed. But in his heart, he has a lot of respect for Zheng Lang, and this cautious attitude makes him particularly admire. And this kind of cautious attitude, in the gentleman's party, I have not seen a single person.

Beizhou is in full swing, Zheng Lang is as safe as Mount Tai, Zhao Zhen sometimes looks at the Di newspaper, and then looks at Zheng Lang's attitude, it doesn't matter, he is at peace in the palace. Wang Xin and Wang Kai's recital went to the Privy Council.

Zheng Lang is not afraid of Jia Changchao, he has the capital to fight.

The second king was so scared that he said it implicitly, not saying that Jia Changchao had no way to command, but only that he should not encourage soldiers and people to kill people indiscriminately and take rewards. What's going on? The people in the city are plotting rebellion, and they have no responsibility, so they will be rewarded with peace. Most of the people outside the city were innocent, but they were killed as thieves. The two couldn't figure it out and asked Zheng Lang what was going on.

In fact, Zheng Lang was not interested in Beizhou at this time.

It is not insensitive, nor is it specifically dealing with Jia Changchao and making Jia Changchao embarrassed, but the religious people in Beizhou City. Even if there is no Jia Changchao's indiscriminate command, let Wang Xin break the system, and use a military general as the commander, it is still very difficult to take Beizhou City.

The fanaticism of religious believers is the most powerful weapon in the world, and it just so happens that Beizhou is an important place in Hebei, and there are many warehouses in the city, and there are many warehouses in the city, and there are grains and grains, money and money, and weapons and weapons, and the king issued a batch, and the religious fanaticism, coupled with the distribution of this batch of materials and money, the morale just reached the highest point.

Therefore, in history, Ming Ho went to Hebei and was unsuccessful, but Wen Yanbo succeeded as soon as he went, and there is a relationship between tactical use, and there is another important reason, which is this morale. After fighting hard for a long time, if the king is really the reincarnation of Maitreya Buddha, if he casts the Dharma, he will be invulnerable, and his morale will be higher. Guan Jian is a god, not a Buddha, and it is better for a soldier to die in battle, and he went to heaven to be an arhat. If you don't die in battle, it doesn't matter if you are slightly injured, if you are seriously injured, you will also be in pain, you will shout, you will scream, you will moan, and the myth of the Buddha will gradually have doubts in this shouting. When morale drops, it's nothing......

Wang Ze's mistake was that at the beginning of the uprising, he did not take advantage of the situation to expand, so the north would not perish, but it would make him seriously disabled.

The two kings' twists and turns, but made Zheng Lang feel embarrassed, thought about it, and presented the folds to Zhao Zhen, Gao Rune said: "Heshuo is the accumulation of heavy troops in the imperial court, and today Shibeizhou does not ask for it, which will make future generations compete to imitate it, and repeatedly start chaos, even the Liao people laugh at it." ”…,

Zhao Zhen looked at Zheng Lang.

Zheng Lang was silent.

Zhao Zhen said: "Beizhou chaos, only Wang Ze is confused, and the people are tired of ignorance. ”

Others say that most of them have other ideas, this sentence comes from Zhao Zhen's mouth, please believe it. Although he was more or less defending his teacher, no one could doubt that he loved the hearts of the people.

Gao Ronne was speechless.

Xia Zhu suddenly said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the appearance of the chaotic people in Beizhou is a dereliction of duty on the part of the privy envoy. ”

It has nothing to do with others, it is Zheng Lang's fault.

If it is forcibly said, it can really be said that the leader of the rebellion, the king, is a military academy, and the first to rebel is a group of soldiers. As a privy envoy, it seems to have some responsibilities to a greater or lesser extent.

But Pang Ji and Wang Yiyong stared at Xia Zhu with sad eyes.

Seeing Xia Zhu's hairy heart, he is not a minister, but the prime minister, just talk about things, and the speaker is not guilty, is it wrong?

But Gao Ruone jumped up and shouted: "Xia Zhu, everyone in the world scolds you for being a treacherous villain, and I only know where this comes from today." Where is Bay State located, others don't know, don't you know? How did you host the Daimyo Mansion for a few years! The imperial court appointed Jia Chang Dynasty as the pacification envoy of Hebei, he is the former prime minister, who dares to deal with the affairs within his jurisdiction! You don't say that Jia Changchao is at fault, but you actually say that the Privy Council is at fault. What are your intentions? ”

If it weren't for the capital, Gao Ruone would have wanted to slap Xia Zhu's big face.

Gao Ruone's anger made Xia Zhu incomprehensible.

Pang Ji looked at Zheng Lang with fearful eyes, I don't know if it was a coincidence, since the imperial court favored Jia Changchao, let Jia Changchao preside over the Daimyo's mansion, and sentenced Hebei to pacify the envoy, Zheng Lang intended to push away Hebei affairs, and handed over all the affairs to Gao Rune, in a beautiful name, to avoid suspicion. Everyone in the world knows that I have a conflict with Jia Changchao, you used to serve as a minister and acted fairly, and no one doubted that you handled it, but I may not handle it properly. seems to be reasonable, Gao Ruone's impression of Zheng Lang has always been not bad, so he took over Hebei affairs. In other words, even if the Privy Council is forcibly held responsible, it has nothing to do with Zheng Lang, and can only be borne by Gao Rune. Where is Gao Rune willing to bear such a false infamy.

Pang Ji was very skeptical, could it be that Zheng Lang's avoidance of suspicion was fake, and it was true to dig a pit and wait for Xia Zhu to jump. So he knew that Wang Ze would rebel? Not like. It doesn't make any sense at all.

Pang Ji could still doubt, Gao Ruone didn't even have the idea of doubt, and said: "Your Majesty, please ask Your Majesty to be the master." Wang Ze's demon rebellion was to use the demon sect to take charge of the demon sect, and the demon sect did not take a day or two, but developed for several years before it has today's scale. With such a huge demon sect, the former Xia Zhu was in the Daimyo's Mansion, and the latter Jia Changchao was in the Daimyo's Mansion, and he didn't even notice it. This is a serious dereliction of duty, please Your Majesty punish these two people, in order to warn the ministers of the world. ”

Others are afraid of you Xia Zhu, afraid of Jia Changchao, Gao Ruone is not afraid, he was just a little Yanchen back then, and he got Yan Wenying out of the palace and died, now he is in a high position, what are you two of! Just do it, it's a big deal, we all die together. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )