In their opinion, every time the patriarch goes out to trade, he can bring a lot of materials to the tribe, and it is with the support of these materials that they can survive the scorching heat and cold winter, so that the tribe can continue.

Su Shi, Zhou Tong and the others were also very happy, because as long as Xu Shan contacted the people of the Imperial City Division this time, they could completely dispel the suspicions of the Yan Department, so that the other party could start to discuss the alliance with the Great Song Dynasty, and at that time, the day when they would go back would not be far off.

However, compared to others, Zhao Yan looked at the impeachment of Libo and Xu Shan and others who were drifting away, but he felt a little irritated for no reason, as if there was a feeling of impending disaster, which made Zhao Yan very uneasy, and carefully sorted out everything from beginning to end, and finally there were no omissions, and everything was in a good direction, which made him shake his head and leave this irritability behind him for the time being.

The impeachment bowl only took away a hundred young people from the tribe, and it did not have much impact on the Wanyan Department of tens of thousands of people, so after sending away the impeachment bowl, the people in the tribe still continued their original lives, the men went out to hunt together, the women picked wild fruits and carried water for cooking, the older children followed their parents to learn the skills of survival, and the younger children ran crazy in the tribe.

Su Shi, Zhou Tong, and He Li also went out hunting, Yelusi and Bones returned to their place to make clothes, and Zhao Yan went to Gu Tianjie to chat with each other. According to Guò's understanding these days, Zhao Yanxian Gu Tianjie is not only a nationalist. At the same time, he is also very knowledgeable, definitely not like he has only read a few books as he said, and he also has his own unique views on some things, but because he has stayed in the closed environment of Wanyan for too long, he does not know much about the situation in the outside world, whenever Zhao Yan tells him about the situation in the outside world, Gu Tianjie will quickly express his own opinions on this, and the analysis is extremely thorough, which also makes Zhao Yan quite respectful of Gu Tianjie.

"Mr. Gu, a country has existed for a long time. There will always be problems of one kind or another. For example, the Liao State has been going downhill over the years, although our Great Song Dynasty is known as the rich world, but at the same time, there are a lot of questions, which can be summed up as the three major problems of redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant expenses. Fan Xianggong in the Renzong period wanted to change the law of the Great Song Dynasty. It's a pity that it failed for various reasons. Now that the Great Song Dynasty has renewed its call for law change, what do you think of this? Zhao Yan suddenly thought of the upcoming Xining change today, and asked Gu Tianjie at the moment.

Heard Zhao Yan ask about the predicament faced by Da Song. I saw Gu Tianjie smiled disdainfully and said: "In fact, in my opinion, the three redundancies of the Great Song Dynasty are not a problem at all, and they are even the advantages of the Great Song Dynasty, but the Great Song Dynasty does not know how to take advantage of this advantage, so he turned this advantage into a disadvantage." ”

"Oh? This statement of the gentleman is very novel, please explain it in detail! Zhao Yan was also very surprised when he heard this, whether it was in the previous life or the future life, it was the first time he had heard others say that the three redundancies of the Great Song Dynasty were advantages rather than disadvantages.

Gu Tianjie was a sharp personality in his early years, and after suffering a big loss, he slowly learned to be cautious in his words and deeds, but now he feels that he doesn't have much time to live, plus Zhao Yan not only has a special identity, but also is willing to listen to his somewhat strange views, so Gu Tianjie is also very willing to discuss problems with Zhao Yan.

I saw Gu Tianjie ponder for a moment, organized his language and finally spoke: "The so-called redundant soldiers, redundant officials and redundant expenses, of which redundant expenses are only problems caused by the first two redundancies, so the three redundancies are actually only two redundancies, redundant soldiers and redundant officials to put it bluntly, in fact, a country's surplus of troops and officials makes it impossible to maintain finances, which leads to all kinds of problems." ”

"Mr. Gu's analysis is good, this is indeed the essential reason for the three redundancies!" Zhao Yan also praised when he heard this, for the three redundancies in the Northern Song Dynasty, later generations have also done a lot of analysis, and the conclusions reached are almost not much different from what Gu Tianjie said now.

Seeing that Zhao Yan agreed with his own point of view, Gu Tianjie also showed a pleased smile and continued: "If you want to solve the problem of redundant soldiers and redundant officials, ordinary people may start from two aspects, one is to reduce the number of soldiers and officials, and the other is to increase financial revenue, but no matter which aspect you start, it is not an easy task. ”

When he said this, he saw Gu Tianjie pause for a moment and then said: "For example, the number of soldiers and officials is reduced, among which the soldiers are easy to do, the Great Song Dynasty emphasizes literature and light on military force, as long as the reduced soldiers can be settled, there is no need to worry about the soldiers making trouble, but the officials are completely different, it is the officials who manage the country, and it is the officials who carry out reforms, and the relationship between officials is intertwined, if someone dares to reduce officials, it is the enemy of all officials, so this matter is almost an impossible task." ”

"Compared with the reduction of soldiers and officials, it should be relatively simple to increase fiscal revenue, but this is only relatively speaking, although the Great Song Dynasty is known as the rich world, but in fact, a large part of the Great Song Dynasty's finances are obtained by monopoly, such as salt, iron, wine and other goods, all of which are monopolized by the government, and most of the profits are also taken away by the government, and it is precisely by relying on these revenues that the Great Song Dynasty can feed the huge army and officials."

"However, this practice of the Great Song Dynasty is to compete with the people for profit, so that most of the wealth of the Great Song Dynasty flows into the treasury every year, so that it is more difficult to increase the treasury income of the Great Song Dynasty, unless the method of Sang Hong Yang is used to forcibly seize the small amount of wealth that flows into the people, which can increase the income of the imperial court in a short time, but the consequences are very strict, and even the people are not happy, and the country is in turmoil, thus leading to the disaster of destroying the country!" When Gu Tianjie said this, his face also became very stern.

Zhao Yan couldn't help but be silent when he heard this, although the Xining reform a few years later was based on the main purpose of "financial management" and "rejuvenating the army", and it did have some results at the beginning, but the essence of this change is actually like Gu Tianjie said, it is to concentrate the wealth of the people in the hands of the state in a change of direction, so that the phenomenon of the country being rich and the people being poor has been produced, which also makes the ordinary people very resistant to the new law, coupled with improper employment and other reasons, and finally directly leads to the failure of the law change.

I saw Zhao Yan be silent for a moment, and finally suddenly raised his head and asked Gu Tianjie: "Then I don't know if Mr. has any way to solve the problem of three redundancies, and why do you say that the three redundancies are advantages rather than disadvantages for Da Song?" ”

"Hehe, maybe in the eyes of others, there are only two ways to solve the problem of three redundancies, but as long as you jump out and look at this problem, you can find a third way." Gu Tianjie smiled proudly again at this time.

"Oh, what's the solution?" Zhao Yan also asked very eagerly when he heard this, because his arrival had made some changes in the Great Song Dynasty, but the problem of three redundancies still plagued the future of the Great Song Dynasty.

"In fact, this method may not be worth mentioning, in my opinion, the biggest problem of the Great Song Dynasty is not the three redundancies, but the military problem, to be precise, the growth of the population of the Great Song Dynasty has been out of the country's bearing capacity, so for the Great Song Dynasty, if you want to quickly solve the domestic problems, the best way is to expand outward, and after the territorial expansion, redundant soldiers and redundant officials are no longer a problem, but become an advantage, but unfortunately the Great Song Dynasty has a huge army, but it is repeatedly defeated in foreign wars, this is the biggest problem of the Great Song Dynasty!" Gu Tianjie said with a firm face.

Zhao Yan couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, thinking that Gu Tianjie was worthy of being a scholar who grew up in Liao, although he learned the art of Confucius and Mencius since he was a child, but he was still influenced by some Khitans.

However, Zhao Yan quickly shook his head and said: "Although this idea of Mr. is good, but the Great Song Dynasty has been weak militarily for a long time, whether it is against Liao or Xia, it is more than one defeat and fewer wins on the battlefield, if you want to change this situation, I'm afraid it will be more difficult than the first two methods, right?" ”

"King Jun, you are wrong, it is not very difficult to change the military weakness of the Great Song Dynasty, the key is whether your Great Song royal family has the courage to do it?" Gu Tianjie shook his head at this time and said.

"What do you mean by that?" Zhao Yan was a little confused when he heard this.

"The king of the county may not know that the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty are actually no worse than the Khitans and the Western Xia people, when fighting abroad, small-scale wars often achieve victory, but as long as there is a large-scale war, the Great Song Dynasty is taking care of one and losing the other, even if its own strength is several times that of the enemy, but in the end it was defeated by a small number of enemies, do you know the reason?" Gu Tianjie said with a smile, when he was in Liao in the past, because he had the Great Song Dynasty in his heart, he made a detailed investigation of all aspects of the Great Song Dynasty, especially the military aspect, which was the top priority.

"The soldier's plain is not bad, a small-scale war can be won, but the big war is a fiasco, and the only reason is that there is a problem with the command of the army." Zhao Yan also showed a sudden expression of realization when he said this, he finally knew where the reason was, when the Great Song Dynasty fought large-scale battles with foreign countries, because of the distrust of military generals, civilian officials would often be sent to be commanders, civilian officials who knew a little bit of military affairs were better, and they might let their generals swing freely, but there was no need to think about cooperation, and civilian officials who did not understand military affairs might command indiscriminately, not only would it not have any effect, but it would also give the enemy a chance to take advantage of it, and it would be hellish to win the battle in this case.

Seeing the expression on Zhao Yan's face, Gu Tianjie then smiled again: "It seems that the king of the county has understood, if you want the Great Song Dynasty to change its weakness on the battlefield, you must give power to the military generals and let the civil officials no longer interfere in the military, which may cause opposition from many civil officials, but as long as the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty is willing to do it, it is not impossible, but I don't know if your Great Song royal family has the courage to hand over the army to the military generals?" (To be continued......)

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