Wang Ju doesn't care, compared to generals, Lao Guo is far inferior to Zhang Qi, that is, the military talents of generals such as Yan Da, Liu Changzuo, Miao Zhu, and Gao Yongneng are also above Guo Kui. can only say that Lao Guo is better than other lives.

"Then there is only a forcible attack, a forcible attack, the minister can do it, but what the minister is most afraid of is that the ministers of Jiaozhi will leave the royal capital, learn from Li Jiqian back then, and continue to fight with our army with the help of dense tropical rainforests. If that situation happens, it may take another 100,000 or 200,000 sacrifices of soldiers and civilians to wipe them out. But at that point, not to mention that the imperial court will pay huge financial, material and human resources, that is, the imperial court is willing to pay, how will it be governed in the future? ”

"Why?"

"The hatred has been formed, that is, the imperial court must send at least 50,000 troops to be stationed in Jiaozhi, which costs a huge amount of money every year, and it will take thirty or forty years of great governance to stabilize Jiaozhi, for the sake of the south, is it worth it for the imperial court?"

"What does Dali say?" Sun Gu asked disagreeingly.

"Dali is different, Bai Man is actually equal to Han people in disguise, the whole country believes in Buddhism, and there are few large-scale battles. Therefore, as long as the strategy is appropriate, it can be governed. Can it be compared to Dali? Since the founding of the country, they have fought everywhere, and the people are fierce and cannot be compared, but fortunately they are relatively backward, including the armor, the area is not very large, otherwise I would be helpless. The simplest example, Dali once mobilized the whole country's troops, and 200,000 troops were conscripted to fight Jiaozhi, what was the result? Go down in flames! So the second way must be what I said. If I use the second strategy and want to succeed, the process is still very cruel and bloody, that is, compared with the third strategy, the difference is that one is to kill people with the help of overseas Kunlun slaves, and the other is that I directly let the soldiers of the three armies kill people. And the number of killings will not be less than the third policy. Ladies and gentlemen, ask yourself, have I given them life? The process is not killing. It's about grabbing. It's just enough to say that I'm a butcher, if the news reaches Jiaozhi and lets Zhang Zihou know, he hesitates and doesn't dare to be ruthless, and a large number of Jiaozhi people return one after another. The hundreds of thousands of Han families who have moved south will surely be devastated, and there will be no cure! ”

In such a situation, how does Wang Ju choose.

It's not that you want to kill, but you have to kill someone!

So I made a final decision. It's a butcher, but it's definitely not the butcher of the Great Song Dynasty! Princesses, you can use means to suppress me, but don't joke with the fortunes of the country. ”

"Wang Zi'an, this rumor has nothing to do with several ministers." Lao Wang said.

Not necessarily, especially Sun Gu, Wang Ju is very uneasy.

Wang Ju explained the situation of Jiaozhi Dali in detail, and then said: "In fact, the process was almost reported to the court. But I asked Your Majesty to summon a few ministers to say something else. First, it is best to place a city in Jiaozhi, which is not only conducive to stability, but also Fuliangjiang. The middle and lower reaches can be navigable, extending to the territory of Dali. A Fuliang River plus a city Bosi may be able to prosper Jiaozhi Road and the southeast area of Yunnan Road. Second, Zhang Zihou wants to manage the long mountain and long vein, so that it can become the border defense of Jiaozhi, and Zhang Zhifu's task is heavier. There are also many rebel forces in its territory, and at the same time, they have to use troops to storm the province. ”

"Tengchong Mansion?"

"When I was leaving, I talked with Mr. Zhang Zhen all night, mainly to say that this Tengchong Mansion is not for its specialty. It's a war horse. In fact, not only Tengchong Prefecture, but also the Xichuan area, the northwest region of Dali, and the horses in the Wuman region are equally important, although they are short, they can be used for civil use, arable land and transportation. Therefore, it is necessary to encourage people to raise horses through tax exemptions and incentives. In addition, raising horses can also be a source of income for the local area. Then Tengchong Mansion will be extremely important, after all, Tengchong horses have been famous since ancient times and can be used to make war horses. Our dynasty lacks ploughing cattle, civilian horses, and even more war horses. If there are enough horses, why bother the people to implement the horse breeding law? ”

"If successful, the experience can be replicated in the Xihe region. Therefore, the chief governor of Jiaozhi Road and Yunnan Road must be a civil and military all-rounder, except for the second chapter, few others are competent. Therefore, in the opinion of the ministers, they must be allowed to govern the two roads for three to four years, everything has become a system, and the people of the two roads have also stabilized, so that the country can be replaced with liuguan. ”

"I'm going to do it." Zhao Ji immediately said, and said, "Wang Qing, you can talk about overseas again." ”

"The minister also heard that there are two situations overseas, one is the decrease in the number of corals and some spices, which is what the minister ordered them to do, after all, where to colonize and survive in the future, if you want to survive, you can't develop violently, you must protect the environment. As for the smuggling, the minister also sent people to inquire about them, mainly because the city department was too harsh, which made many businessmen dissatisfied with it. But it didn't matter, the minister sent someone to inform them and asked them to send a few representatives to Beijing. Your Majesty, Lords, you can communicate directly with them to solve this problem together. ”

It is what Zhao Ji is most concerned about, and it is even more concerned than sending officials overseas, and it is ultimately a loss of millions of dollars a year.

Wang Ju said that it is also a way.

If there is any problem, ask face-to-face and solve it face-to-face, and the overseas stall, the big guys are in the clouds together, and they don't know very well, so they only listen to Wang Ju talking about himself.

If those businessmen enter Beijing, they can have a comprehensive understanding of the outer sea.

"Your Majesty, so let's do it, just as the autumn wind has risen, and the merchant ships are preparing to go south, I will send someone to inform them quickly, so that they can enter Beijing next spring to discuss taxes and overseas officials. But Your Majesty, please rest assured, their roots are always in the Great Song Dynasty, but after donating so many silver silk food materials, the imperial court still treats them harshly, and their hearts are uneven, but their loyalty to the Great Song Dynasty is beyond doubt. ”

"Wang Qing, this matter is indeed not done well by the City Division." Zhao Ji sighed.

In fact, Sun Gu was speechless.

Not to mention their strong support for Wang Junan's use of troops, at least in the past, people really kept to themselves, and besides, the boatload of grain, really not money? Don't mention the money, how many people were saved at that time.

"Your Majesty, let the household department do another census."

"Yes."

"Your Majesty, it is actually not necessary to pay so much attention to overseas, no matter what happens overseas? If it weren't for Jiaozhi, it would not threaten the interests of the Great Song Dynasty across thousands of miles of oceans. Just like the Wa Kingdom, can it pose a threat to my Great Song Dynasty? ”

It's all nonsense with wide eyes.

But who knows how important the ocean will be in the future?

But Wang Ju said so, and now these important figures of the Song Dynasty really recognize ......!

"If the imperial court wants to govern, I believe that those merchants are eager to go, and the ministers are afraid that no official is willing to go. It's that there are officials who go, if they don't do well. Anything can happen overseas. It wasn't easy to forge a foundation, with constant battles against the brutal natives, the risks on the seas, and many pirates. The indigenous people were equally brutal, including many cannibals. In the Great Song Dynasty, these businessmen are very honest. But on the other side, the cochin people's wilderness is far inferior to theirs. ”

"But why do I attach importance to overseas, the reason is very simple, there are many materials overseas that I need in the Great Song Dynasty, such as all kinds of livestock, our Great Song Dynasty lacks pastures, but there are countless excellent pastures overseas, so all kinds of meat and fur can be continuously transported to our Song Dynasty. There are also deposits of copper and iron. The second is to evacuate the population, Your Majesty, by the end of the year, the household department will count the population, to ensure that Your Majesty will be taken by surprise. ”

"The evacuation of the impoverished population is to solve the population pressure, and the second is to solve the burden of our Great Song Dynasty, which is not only exploited by the powerful. How much can contribute to the imperial court, on the contrary. For the sake of national stability, the imperial court can only keep allocating money and grain for relief. The third is the increase in trade, Zhugong, maybe you see the income of Quanzhou, but you don't see it, because of the increase in overseas trade. How many people were fed. There are other benefits, such as the sea ships I used to defeat the Champa state, and a large number of sea ships were used to load the Kunlun slaves. If the loyalty of these maritime merchants to the Song dynasty remained unchanged, then a powerful fleet appeared on the Jingdonglu Peninsula. What does the Liao Congress think? ”

This is what Zhao Ji wants most!

In the early Song Dynasty, ships were also used during the Northern Expedition, but only Gao Qiong led 20,000 soldiers and horses, set off from the Juma River in small boats, and landed in Yingzhou along the seaside.

But what if the large fleets of the current maritime merchants were used?

"Your Majesty, there are so many benefits, but there is nothing that hurts the Great Song Dynasty, Your Majesty, don't you want to be trapped?"

"What Wang Qing said is extremely true."

What is lost is precious.

This smuggling caused the inner library to lose several million yuan, and Zhao finally regretted it.

…………

"See Your Majesty."

"Wang Qing, your injuries haven't healed yet, so don't get up." Zhao said.

This new house has this benefit, not only close to Zhao Niannu's house, but also close to the imperial city. Moreover, the surrounding houses are either rich or expensive, and Zhao Ji will come in person, which will not be as dazzling as the old mansion left by Wang Ju to Zhang Zai's son.

But Wang Ju still insisted on standing up and sat down at the bottom.

"Wang Qing, I have issued an edict to exempt all gold and silver taxes from entering the city."

The main gold and silver tax into the city accounted for a very small proportion of the commercial tax in the Song Dynasty, not nothing, and most of them were greedy. Therefore, sometimes in low years, an income is less than 10,000 yuan. The income is small, and Zhao Ji is not heartbroken when he discards it.

"In addition, I have issued an edict to halve the tax related to foreign trade."

According to Wang Ju's intentions, it is best to avoid it.

It is not a question of how much tax can be paid, but how many people can be fed. Just like exporting a piece of porcelain, the income of the porcelain workshop workers, the income of the transportation workers along the way, the carriages, horses, ships, and commercial taxes...... Therefore, in order to stimulate exports, some countries in later generations not only exempted taxes, but also often even used state finances to subsidize.

However, this theory is too advanced, and each scholar has his own ideas, although Wang Ju has repeatedly explained, everyone still feels unacceptable.

Zhao Ji is willing to cut the tax in half, which is very good.

"I also issued an edict to let Zhang Dian set up a city in Jiaozhi."

"So good."

"The group of bandits in Kunshan have been captured."

There were many vast mountains in that area, but Wang Ju provided clues.

At that time, after the group of mountain bandits failed to assassinate them, they knew that something was wrong, and immediately fled with the pack horses and ponies left by Wang Ju. One of the mountain bandits may have been in a panic and got a burden on the horse's back to the ground, and this burden was a Salo blanket product that Wang Ju said.

Then it was picked up by a mountain man, and since Wang Ju deliberately brought back the gift, these products are undoubtedly exquisite. So the mountain man sold it to a merchant.

Under Li Ding's investigation, this saro blanket was found.

Then he found the mountain man, and the mountain man took Li Ding to the place where he was found.

This location is not where the bandits are located, but from it you can get the direction of the bandits' retreat - the south of the mountain mountain.

With a direction, nearly 10,000 forbidden soldiers are intensively searching and arresting, and there are also rich rewards.

Therefore, a mountain farmer reported that it was a suspicious hunter in a village in the northern mountains of Changshui County.

Yang then led the officers and soldiers to this village. Finally, all the thieves were arrested.

With Li Ding's interrogation, the truth was also revealed.

This village used to be all hunters, but because of poverty, it is located deep in the mountains, and the border between Luoyang and Yuzhou is not an area, so there are some bold hunters who usually hunt for a living. Occasionally, I also make a cameo appearance as a mountain bandit.

After the promotion of the armor protection law, all villages and villages implemented joint defense, and they lost the space for robbery, so they had to become honest. But in doing so, they were once again living in poverty.

Just some time ago, a person with a Hebei accent came and took out two thousand taels of gold on the spot and asked them to assassinate an official. The official, this man did not say.

And after it was done. The man also promised to give another two thousand taels of gold.

Four thousand taels of gold, how much wealth is that for ordinary people?

The whole village was moved, and the assassination site was far away from their village, and these people thought that it would be difficult for the government to find this place, so there was that assassination operation.

The man was with them at the same time. The assassination failed, and the man immediately commanded. Let them slaughter all the dozen horses, and put away the specialties for the time being. Don't sell it, and then leave the stockade and don't know where to go.

"All those horses were killed?" Qiongniang screamed bitterly on the side.

"Lady Qiong, the safety of people is the greatest luck, when Yang Sui was arrested, more than a dozen black lacquer bows were also seized in the village." Zhao Ji said dissatisfiedly.

Hear the news. Zhao Ji is also in a cold sweat, this is a standard bow, and the power is extraordinary. How lucky was Wang Juneng to escape from the sky with his men that day?

Isn't it just a few horses, I want it? I have sent you an edict to give you a hundred ponies!

"Their standard bow?" Wang Ju asked puzzled.

Zhao Ji's face was sad.

A few years ago, these mountain bandits still have room to rob, but they have always suspected that the weapons in their hands are not powerful enough, and it happened that a forbidden army in Luoyang was changing clothes, and these mountain bandits went to Luoyang City to trade the looted goods, and when they heard this news, they were bold enough to find a commander in the barracks.

Instead of arresting them, this commander actually sold some standard weapons, including a dozen black lacquer bows, more than 200 arrows, and more than a dozen institutional knives, to this group of mountain bandits with the opportunity of changing their outfits.

Li Ding found out the truth, and the imperial court immediately arrested this name, which also affected some businessmen.

But this is the army, alas, can be corrupt, can be deducted, can it sell standard weapons casually?

The forbidden army is so corrupt, this is what Zhao Ji is most distressed about.

"Your Majesty, in fact, the forbidden army ...... In particular, the symbolic significance of the forbidden army stationed in the two capitals is greater than the significance of actual combat. Wang Ju said euphemistically.

That's a nice way to put it.

In fact, it is a high-class guard forbidden soldier who does not need to be rotated, and has been reduced to a boy who spends countless dollars every year, but has no combat effectiveness.

Wang Ju said again: "Take history as a mirror, the actual Tang Dynasty is the same, when it comes to Tianbao, the Tang Dynasty Yulin Army also began to be corrupt and degenerate, otherwise how could An Lushan easily conquer Luoyang Tongguan?" ”

"Is it a border army?"

"There is no need to completely border army," Wang Ju said cautiously, since he proposed, the local promotion of the border army, all of them are noisy, complete border army, looking for death: "Two strategies, one is that all forbidden soldiers must implement the rotation, and the second strategy is to further transfer to the suburbs of the capital, away from the prosperous place of the capital, and reorganize the army and discipline, so that it can restore its style of life." ”

These two articles are just proposals, and if you want to pass them, I don't know how long they will quarrel. Especially the Guards, who are all descendants of either rich or noble, can they be willing to go to the bitter cold border plug wheel?

Zhao Ji continued to get down to business.

The place where the mountain bandits are located is the place where the two states or even the two roads meet, but it is still under the jurisdiction of Luoyang.

The Hebei accent is even more suspicious, you must know that Wen Yanbo was transferred from Hebei to Luoyang.

Li Ding and Yang Sui cast a net of heaven and earth, but the man still did not catch it, but some time ago, Wen Yanbo had already cast a net of heaven and earth and blocked all roads. It would have been better if he had caught it, but if he didn't catch it, Lao Wen would have become more suspicious.

So Li Ding returned to Luoyang City and said to Wen Yanbo, I will search door to door. This door-to-door, including the mansions of Wen Yanbo, Fu Bi, Wang Gongchen and others. Can that be done?

Wen Yanbo was also angry, saying that Wang Ju was also suspicious, because as far as he knew, Wang Ju had a doorman named Han Yun, who personally went to Xiegu to meet Wang Ju, but after arriving in Hengqu Town, this person was separated from Wang Ju, and it was not until Zhengzhou that this person joined Wang Ju.

It's the bitter ploy of this man!

Li Ding had no choice but to report to Zhao Ji, Zhao Ji didn't believe it, Wang Ju's own wound was witnessed with his own eyes, was it worth taking such a big risk?

Therefore, he personally came to Wang Ju's home to inquire.

Wang Juyi was annoyed when he heard this: "Duke Wen is spying on me?" ”

If you don't watch, how do you know that Han Yun welcomes Wang Ju? If you don't monitor, how do you know that Han Yun has disappeared for a while? The fatal surveillance may have started from Wang Ju's arrival in Xiegu Town.

What does this mean?

Zhao Ji's face changed, and he muttered, "Is it really Wen Yanbo's doing?" (To be continued.) )