What's coming next in Western Xia?

The Liang family is going to imprison Li Bingchang!

So the Song Dynasty thought it was a rare and good time for the army to invade.

However, now Wang Ju said that it was a fake, and it was not a good time.

"Brother Han, you haven't figured it out yet, Shu and the Southern Tang Dynasty died in the mediocrity of the monarchs and ministers, happy day and night, and the people were disappointed in them, and they were peaceful for a long time and did not practice fighting. As for the Southern Han Dynasty, the lord of the country was tyrannical, and even many people wished that our army would go south as soon as possible. However, the Later Han Dynasty is different, although when Taizu attacked the Later Han Dynasty, the domestic political situation of the Later Han Dynasty was unstable, but he was still benevolent to the people, and he was sandwiched between the Liao and Song Dynasties, and the people were fierce, so the country was small and the people were few, but it blocked the three attacks of our dynasty. ”

"Zi'an, you're talking about the people's hearts."

"It is the will of the people, the will of the people, and the ability to fight is the foundation of the country. The same is true of Dali, the Gao family controls the government, so that the government decrees are out of many doors, the country lacks cohesion, and there has not been a large-scale war for a long time, although some tribes attack each other, but can the battle of those dozens of people be compared with the battle of the army? So even if there is no Gaoyang Rebellion, I can also take Dali. It's just that because of the Gaoyang Rebellion, the price I paid to take Dali will be smaller. Now the same is true of Western Xia. ”

"However, the people of Western Xia lived in great hardship."

"The people of Western Xia are living in poverty, but are the people in the border areas of my dynasty not poor? If the living standards of the people in the border areas were the same as in the second year of my victory in Gyeongju, there would be no fighting, and many people in Western Xia would flee to our court. Unfortunately, even Gyeongju has gradually regressed in recent years...... Therefore, no matter how prosperous our dynasty is, the life of the people of the Song Dynasty they see is similar to theirs. But I pay them year after year. It is undoubtedly invisibly cultivating self-confidence for them. Although it is possible that the political situation in Western Xia will change drastically. However, the people's hearts and minds are not lost. As long as the people's hearts are not lost. How can I succeed in the summer war? ”

"No wonder Zi'an has let me run Helan Yan for many years."

"Exactly, only when the people are completely disappointed will it become easier to cut the summer."

"Xixia won't be so powerful." Zhang Quanzhi asked a little disbelievingly. If nothing else, let's talk about the Battle of Gyeongju, it seems that Western Xia is just like that.

"Then how do you look at it, if you launch the shallow offensive campaign that I mentioned with Zhang Zhifu on the border, our dynasty will have the absolute upper hand. If it penetrates deep into the inner abdomen of Western Xia. It's really hard and hard to annihilate in one fell swoop. Unless I join forces with Zhang Zhifu again, Your Majesty will give us more than 300,000 elite troops, provide sufficient armor, grain and grass, various materials and money, and then do not interfere in any way, and also cooperate with the whole country to find a way to stabilize the Liao State. Then add to this coup d'état, and it may be successful. ”

But this is not possible.

First of all, Yunnan Road has not been separated from Zhang Kai for the time being in the past two or three years. Without Zhang Qi, Wang Ju will lack one of the most important staff officers, and the possibility of destroying Xia will also be reduced.

Secondly, Zhao Ji will not be relieved.

Think about it, if you hand over 300,000 elite troops to Wang Ju. So how many forbidden soldiers were left in the Song Dynasty? Even there are a large number of soldiers, and most of them are garbage pullers with explosive combat effectiveness.

What if the king has a disobedient heart?

Wang Ju has no objections. However, how can Zhao Ji see through Wang Ju's heart.

Besides, Wang Ju still has so many political enemies, the three of them have become tigers, and when they talk nonsense, will Zhao Ju be shaken?

The best example, looking at the south, Wang Ju really didn't use many forbidden soldiers, only a few thousand forbidden soldiers, and even when he conquered Dali, they were all withdrawn one after another. The soldiers used were all recruited from the south, and they were very powerful in the south, but once they reached the north, they would be useless.

However, this is the case, Zhao Ji is more or less not at ease.

So soon after completely taking Dali, Wang Ju was summoned back.

"It's not good......" Han Yun finally came back to his senses.

If the imperial court thought that this was a great opportunity for the army to attack Xia, Wang Ju would inevitably go to the northwest. But it is impossible for Wang Ju to be in charge of all the armies, maybe the troops will be divided, Wang Ju is only in charge of the soldiers all the way, or is in charge of the overall situation, but there will be many people who are in control.

Just like in the court now, Lao Wang is good to Wang Ju, Cai Zhang waits and sees, and Lu Feng is slightly repulsed, but with the abolition of the city and the change of law, his impression of Wang Ju has also reversed a lot.

Therefore, no matter how Sun Gu jumped up and down, Zhao Ji didn't care.

It's also a balance.

Even if you can understand Zhao Ji's mentality, it is not a big problem to do it in the court, but if you do it on the front line, it will really kill people.

Let's look at Dafeichuan, Xue Rengui and Guo Beifeng.

Then after the failure of the summer war, Wang Ju will have to bear the main responsibility.

In fact, this may not be the case, but since Wang Ju has decided...... Always give yourself a reason.

"So I'm going to arrange it like this...... next day," Wang Ju slowly said his plan.

For Wang Ju, this is a plan that makes him struggle incomparably. Even in his heart, he thought that only the blackest, not the blackest.

It can be said that it has almost reached the darkest means in the power struggle.

But for Zhang and Han, although there are some sighs, it is normal. In order to achieve great success, there must be great sacrifices.

So after sighing for a while, Zhang Quanzhi said: "Although it is a little cruel, it is indeed a good policy. ”

However, both of them looked at Wang Ju in surprise, okay, I didn't expect that the adopted son of the eldest prince was actually the biological son of the eldest princess and Wang Ju, this is a whole thing......

Wang Ju has always neglected one person, Yuzang Huama in the Xishi City area. Soon after, the Liang clan killed Li Qing, imprisoned Li Bingchang in a wooden village outside the city of Xingzhou, and cut off the ditch beams so that he could not communicate with the outside world. Yu Zang Hua Ma was Li Liangzuo's minister before his death, and he was very unhappy when he heard it, and immediately wrote to the Song Dynasty officials in Xizhou, asking the Song Dynasty to jointly send troops to defeat the Liang family.

Yuzang Huama also had a lot of elite soldiers in his hands, which made the Song Dynasty move his mind.

It's a pity that Wang Ju doesn't know, otherwise there is a lot of room for manipulation.

And by the time it happened, Wang Ju was no longer in the capital......

The east wind is coming.

Not only the east wind came, but also a group of people.

As soon as this group arrived in the capital, they were taken to the Yanhe Palace.

Where they passed. Many ministers and eunuchs looked at him sideways.

One is curiosity. The second is that this group of people are all "rich guys".

At the same time, various important ministers were also summoned to the Yanhe Palace.

Although it was a group of representatives of seafarers who came. But the matter of discussion is not small, millions of income, some well-informed people also know that 200,000 taels of gold will be produced every year, in addition to such a large territory, I heard that there are several Song Dynasty large territory, millions of people, how to arrange, are all concerned about everyone.

Many ministers looked at the dozen or so seafarers. glanced at Wang Ju again.

Wang Ju stood at the bottom of Zhang Qi, closing his eyes and recuperating, as if he had nothing to do with him.

Zhao Ji first asked: "Zhuqing's family, how do you manage the other side now?" ”

This must be asked.

After all, there must be a management charter for so many people.

And maybe this charter can be used as a reference.

One of the seafarers began to answer.

Generally speaking, there is no concealment, after all, in a few months, the imperial court may send a few officials to several resettlement sites to try to manage.

Let's talk about the idea of governance first, which is the ancestral family law mentioned by the scholars of the Song Dynasty. Without a single ideological guide, management is bound to be chaotic.

What thoughts. The policy is fair, the law is fair, and commerce and trade, especially the goods related to the people's livelihood, must be fair.

Everyone was not very surprised after hearing this, in fact, it was the Qi people that Wang Ju said, as for the justice mentioned later, it was nothing more than what Wang Anshi wanted to do, set up some state institutions to regulate prices, and crack down on the monopoly of hoarding and various groups.

But it's really wrong to think like this, the Qi people mentioned in the Song Dynasty are only a nominal Qi people, and the other side is the implementation of Qi people who really work hard.

Next is the four-level system, villages, towns, cities, and provinces.

This group is also not surprised, in the Song Dynasty, it is the county and state road, and as for the village, it is actually the pavilion chief system of the Qin Dynasty.

But to everyone's surprise.

Village and town election system!

What was the electoral system of the Song Dynasty?

Almost everyone was at a loss.

Not only that, but there is also a system, that is, the grace system, if officials want their children to embark on the road of politics in the future, then they must start from the village.

First go to a village to be the village head, after several years, get the approval of the whole village, before you can enter the town, in the town's official position is recognized by the people, but also by the above, and then further elected to the city level as an official. This is a thorough grinding.

At the municipal level, it was too far away from the people, and in this era, it was impossible to conduct effective elections in such a large area, so it had to be appointed from above.

However, this system cannot be spoken, because it is undoubtedly a march towards a country.

Wang Ju only opened his eyes at this time, looked at this scribe named Zhang Xingguan, and thought in his heart that the person selected by Lu He was very good, courageous, and quick to react.

Then there are taxes.

The other side has also begun to enforce the relevant taxes.

Agriculture and animal husbandry pay two taxes, and the other is commercial tax. There is no way, so many people must be managed, and management must set up relevant officials and officials, so there must be expenditures.

In addition, villages, towns and cities also have to build roads and water conservancy schools and hire scholars to educate children, which also has to be expensed.

In the end, there is such a large area, although millions of people have migrated to the past, it is actually impossible to completely occupy it, just stay in one settlement after another, and there are still a large number of indigenous people around, even if Luzon uses such a tragic method, there are still more than a million indigenous people. Then, in addition to distributing armor to the people in villages and towns and organizing militia armies, it is also necessary to set up a small number of troops. It's going to cost a lot of money.

Zhang Xingguan seems to be saying it unintentionally, but many ministers are inevitably thinking in their hearts, no wonder Wang Ju said that the people on the other side are fierce, and all villages are armed forces, so if the management is not good, there will undoubtedly be a lot of trouble......

However, the tax is also considerable, and last year the tax reached more than 3 million yuan, but it is still not enough, and every year the merchants must continue to compensate millions of yuan to ensure their expenditure.

Anyway, the Song Dynasty just got it, and it didn't want to accumulate any wealth, maybe the merchants lost their hands, and the Song Dynasty would have to post the wealth upside down.

Lu Gongzhu asked: "There is no tea and wine to press salt?" ”

"This prime minister's surname."

"A certain surname is Lu."

"It turned out to be Lu Xianggong, who has been admired for a long time," Zhang Xingguan immediately gave a big salute respectfully. And he replied, "There are two reasons." First, most of the people who migrated were destitute. In addition, many villages and towns have to face the invasion of local natives, and because they are poor and white, in addition to low taxes to make them rich quickly, they also have to bear a lot of labor every year. ”

"Forced labor, why not implement the exemption law?" Cai asked.

"The other side is different from our dynasty, and our dynasty can enforce the law of exemption from military service. The people on the other side of the past were poor people, and they would rather take on forced labor than pay more for exemption. However, some people don't want to bear the burden of conscription, so we temporarily borrowed some methods of conscription in the Tang Dynasty and ransomed them with money. Generally, according to the situation in various places, you can pay 50 to 100 yuan for others to serve on your behalf. As a result, the people lived a little better than they had been in the interior, and they were still struggling, and in order to levy lightly, they did not implement the monopoly system. After all, salt, wine, tea and alum are also materials for people's livelihood. ”

He said it normally. But the ministers seemed to feel that their faces were hot.

"The second is the difference in various materials, and the merchants have also tried to transplant mulberry tea. However, many places have not been transplanted successfully, that is, the transplantation has survived, and the quality of tea mulberry is far less than that of the Central Plains, and the scale is pitiful. There is no tea, where does the tea come from? Salt can't be even more specialized. ”

On the other side, the cost of salt is not lower than that of the Song Dynasty, but the difference is that the salt is fully implemented there, and then the fine salt is steamed in a more scientific way, that is, the jade salt initiated by Wang Ju.

Although all aspects are saving costs, all of them are fine salt, and the cost per catty still reaches five or six yuan.

At the time of sale, the government levies some commercial tax, that is, the commercial tax is 5% for the nearest place, and 7% for the cross-"city".

That is, five to seven percent of the five or six cents, so even if the freight is added, in the hands of the people, it is generally only ten cents, and it is all fine salt after processing!

Why is it so cheap?

Many areas of Australia are not suitable for farming, but they are suitable for pasture, and the area suitable for pasture may be almost the same as the area of the entire Song Dynasty now!

There is a way to get the fur to the Song Dynasty, but what about the meat?

It can only be pickled.

There are also some offshore fisheries. Although the current shipping industry is not yet able to extend the fishing industry to the deep sea, fishing for marine fish on the continental shelf is still not a big problem.

It can also only be salted before it can be transported to the Song Dynasty for sale.

These are renewable resources, not like mineral deposits, which are gone after digging, and developing mineral deposits now is equivalent to mining half and spoiling half!

Therefore, it is not only related to the livelihood of ordinary people, but also related to the most important business on the other side.

Salt tea is not specialized, so the wine will be liberalized, and the commercial tax will be the mainstay.

But there is a difference that the other side is an absolute Qi business tax. Including trade with overseas, the property that really belongs to Wang Ju's control must also pay this commercial tax in accordance with the system.

It's a deficit right now, but it's time to see it.

As the population increases, so do taxes, and there are many people on the other side who have completed the accumulation of primitive wealth, and the policy is encouraging them to march into industry and commerce. At the same time, as the number of migrants increased, the number of indigenous people decreased, and so did military spending.

After all, it was an island, unlike the Song Dynasty, and there were strong enemies around it, especially in the north. As long as the island is conquered in its entirety, then there is no need to keep the army anymore.

At that time, taxes will fully cover all expenditures.

But even Zhang Xingguan in the back was not very clear, so he didn't say it, only the reason in front.

However, everyone understood that on the whole, these emigrants were still in the service of various maritime merchants, whether it was a temporary administration and officials, or taxes, which were only established for temporary management. The real income has been taken away by the various maritime merchants.

So everyone looked at each other again, and it wasn't easy to do.

In fact, I really thought wrong about it.

The reason for the establishment of these systems and taxes is that there has been serious chaos on the islands on the other side, so Wang Ju formulated relevant systems and taxes when he was in Quang Nam, and the chaos on the islands on the other side stopped.

However, the various systems and taxes are still far from perfect.

"What about the law?"

"The law was basically promulgated in accordance with the law of our Great Song Dynasty, but there were many situations on the other side that were different from those of the Central Plains, so some minor changes were made."

Don't modify too much.

But it can't be said either.

"And what about the imperial examinations?"

"Your Majesty, the department, the department, the imperial examination, the grass people dare to carry out the imperial examination."

Zhang Xingguan trembled with fright.

Zhao Ji was happy, and asked again: "How many people are there over there?" ”

"Your Majesty, unlike the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty counts the households, and the mouth counts over there."

"Huh."

"When we began to migrate the people, the prince once told us in Quanzhou that we are Song people, Chinese, so no matter how we migrate, we must not forget this root. The Great Song Dynasty is our roots. Therefore, there are two fundamental laws of the law, that whoever forgets that he is a Chinese will be killed, and that whoever marries a foreign race will be killed. In order to implement this policy, all people must register with the government when they marry and take precautions. As a result, an identity card system has been introduced for all persons and a household registration system has been implemented for all households. ”

In fact, Yanda had already informed the imperial court, but some of the ministers didn't know about it, and they stuck out their tongues together after hearing it.

"Wang Qing, didn't you say that you should not look down on barbarians?" Zhao Ji asked Wang Ju.

Wang Ju came out and replied: "Your Majesty, there is no contradiction, it seems that there are a small number of barbarians among the people who have migrated, and this is not allowed to marry with foreign races, but it is not allowed to marry with overseas natives. This Chinese is not only Han, but all the Hans, barbarians and Fans in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty are considered Chinese. This is also a helpless move, they live on the other side of the sea all their lives, thousands of miles apart, and what can be connected is blood. If you are related to the natives in other places, the bloodline will be seriously diluted, and finally you will naturally forget that you are a Great Song person. Although it was a little radical, for the sake of the Song Dynasty, it was a last resort. ”

It's really a last resort.

Just like Lincoln, people who don't know the roots think he's great.

However, it was he who gave the order for the mass killing of the Indians.

Wang Ju opened up the other side, one is to find a way out for the dense population, the second is for wealth, and the third is to promote each other, jointly subsidize and make common progress.

But he didn't want everyone to be enemies of life and death across the sea in a few hundred years.

Therefore, these two basic laws and textbooks are used to forcibly brainwash everyone.

"I see, that's ......" Zhao Ji sighed a little, and then asked Zhang Xingguan: "What is the ID card system and the household registration system?" ”

"The household registration system is to register the detailed population of a family with the government, and every time an old man dies or a baby is born, he must go to the government to re-register, and every man or woman who grows up to the age of 15 must be issued a separate identity card, on which his or her own appearance and other information are written, so as to facilitate the management of officials at all levels."

"Huh," Zhao Ji and the others exclaimed again, seeming to ...... This method is really good, can it be taken to the Song Dynasty? So Zhao Ji was stunned for a moment before asking, "How many people are there over there?" ”

"More than two million."

In the minds of Zhao Ji and others, they also thought that about two million people had migrated and left, but there was a large amount of arable land for the people to develop and cultivate, so the same population would increase rapidly, so it was quite normal to add hundreds of thousands of newborn babies over the years.

Although this number is a bit much, but after last year's population statistics, every year the Song Dynasty increased by 220,000 households, the Song Dynasty did not count the mouth, but counted the households, if in times of war, often a household can only have four people, but in peacetime, a household can reach six or seven people. Let's count it lower, now there are at least five and a half people in a household in the Song Dynasty. That would have to add more than 1.2 million people a year.

So when this number came out, everyone was not so excited.

In fact, Zhang Xingguan here has been seriously shrunk, and the real number of mouths will increase by another two million.

But can you say it?

In short, so far, Zhao Ji is quite satisfied.

But the other person was dissatisfied, and Sun Gu suddenly asked coldly: "I ask you, why did you smuggle last year!" This is the crime of abandoning the city (beheading the city after the autumn is abandoning the city). (To be continued.) )