"Zi'an, there is no evidence......"

Under the cover of the imperial court, most of the people believe that it is the Tangut people, but Lao Wang will not really believe that it was the Tangut people, so who will it be? Wen Yanbo is undoubtedly the biggest suspect.

Hair use.

Without evidence, what can be done to take Wen Yanbo?

If Wang Ju named Wen Yanbo, Wen Yanbo could impeach Wang Ju for framing the old ministers of the Three Dynasties.

You must know that Wen Yanbo is not fighting alone!

"Prince, do you think I can make all the maritime merchants obey?"

"Zi'an, why are you asking about this?"

"Prince, it's important."

"I'm afraid it's hard."

"That's it, Wen Yanbo killed Zhang Mu by mistake, and I have no way to seek justice for him, if the maritime merchants are extremely disappointed, and like a few years ago, all the commercial goods do not go through the market, but use private business means to enter and exit, what will happen? That's fine, but if they cut off the supply of gold and silver to our court, what kind of changes will it cause? ”

"Banking?" Lao Wang shuddered.

If it starts, it will be fine, the key is that now the Seedlings Law has been abolished, and large livestock and non-commercial houses are not counted as households.

This is just like Wang Ju said, it is the subject of taxation that is not properly taxed, but it is the subject of housing tax that is not properly taxed. Don't talk about other cities, let's talk about the capital, at least more than 100,000 households, if it is levied according to the imperial court's house tax system, only one capital can collect at least millions of house taxes. However, not to mention the capital, how much house tax was levied in the entire Great Song Dynasty in a year.

Therefore, it doesn't matter, Guan Jian is that the Zhongshu has issued an edict to notify all states and counties across the country. In accordance with this new edict. Re-verify the households of the people in each state and county. This means that half of the first-class households will become second-class households, half of the second-class households will become third-class households, and half of the third-class households will become fourth-class households......

If there is no subsidy from the bank, whether it is exempt from military money or two taxes, the court will wait and cry.

"Gong Wen wouldn't be so disrespectful of the general situation."

"Prince, an earthquake in Huashan was used by Duke Wen to attack the new law, and this is the curtain of using natural disasters to attack the new law. So there was the Zheng Xia case, with the impeachment of Sima Guang and others, and Jiefu dismissed the prime minister! Also, the Dongming County incident, the assassination case, and the Zhang Mu case...... These are all vaguely related to Gong Wen, but I really want to find his handle, but I can't find anything. Don't look for it, Duke Wen is everywhere, including my ambiguous relationship with the eldest princess. He can also inquire. On scheming, the five gentlemen of Qingli. Fan Pang Fuhan, no one can compare with Wen Gong! ”

"It seems...... No, Zi'an, let's go see the official's house. ”

"Prince, I want to avoid suspicion, so I won't go."

"Okay, I'll go."

Lao Wang went to see Zhao Ji.

Wang Ju sat down to deal with official business, and the hall official came in and said, "Taibao, Xu Shilang and General Yan ask to meet." ”

"Let them in."

General Xu of the military department and Yan Da, the deputy commander of the palace, were brought in.

First of all, General Xu spoke: "There is news from Shaanxi that Western Xia is also very embarrassed. ”

"This is inevitable, but Duke Xu, you also have to order the front-line soldiers in Shaanxi to pay attention to the fact that Western Xia is not our dynasty, especially the Liang family, but an extreme poor soldier and a martial artist."

"The main thing is that these two defeats are too bad." Xu Jiang sighed.

Wang Ju said six years, in fact, at least in these three or four years is the recovery time, if it is the original, don't pay attention, Wang Ju returned to the capital in the front, and the Western Xia immediately died down.

"It doesn't matter, although my dynasty has suffered a miserable defeat, but the country is huge and can afford to drag it out. It is still possible to do it without attacking, only seeking self-preservation. ”

Xu Jiang will go down.

Wang Ju said to Yan Da: "When did you return to the capital?" ”

"Prince, after I led my troops to fight Bagan in the south, because the weather was too hot and I was unwell, I fell ill after the war, and the official family issued an edict to let me return to Beijing."

Anyway, Lao Yan is getting old.

Wang Ju sighed in his heart, and said, "Is the rest of Yunnan Road okay?" ”

"It's basically calm, but in some remote alpine areas, Zhang Gong is still helpless."

"That's fine, as for those remote mountainous areas, they will have to be pacified in the future, and the center of gravity of the country will always be the north. If the North can stabilize, the South will not be a problem. ”

"In fact, as long as the Western Xia can be extinguished, the situation in our dynasty will change immediately."

"It's not that easy...... Don't talk about that, General Yan, I invite you here mainly because I want you to do one thing. ”

"Prince, please instruct."

"Come and see," Wang Ju took out a map of the Kaifeng area: "Two fiascos, including some soldiers in the capital also died tragically in the northwest, so I issued an edict to select strong people from among the Baoding to serve as forbidden soldiers, and I want you to take them to train." In addition, there is a pastoral area here. ”

This pastoral area is at the junction of Kaifeng and Zhengzhou, with an area of more than 2,000 hectares, but some of it has been invaded by Haoqiang.

Wang Ju said: "I plan to sort out this pastoral area and further expand the number of recruits, as for the forbidden soldiers in the city, if they are over fifty years old and weak, even if they are not weak, those who are over fifty-five years old and are not generals, they will be retired." ”

"That's a good idea, the forbidden soldiers in the city are too poor in combat. But the prince, even so, how many forbidden soldiers can be placed in this pastoral area alone? ”

Even if five or six thousand forbidden soldiers are added, it will still be useless to put them on the battlefield of Song and Xia.

"I know, but if the army is expanded in Shaanxi, now in this situation, the people are like frightened birds, who wants to be a soldier? Even if the recruitment is expanded, it is mostly lazy or scoundrels, so it is better not to expand. So let's put it off and see what happens next year. But if you want to cut the summer, you must prepare now. ”

Wang Ju took out a large map, which was a map of the northern area of Hedong Road, he pointed to Shizhou, Lanzhou and other places, and said: "There are still a few pastures in this area, although the imperial court has officially used them for horse grazing, but they have not been used well. Therefore, I plan to set aside another 6,000 hectares of pasture from here to house the border troops. ”

"In that case, there will be a serious shortage of pastures in the imperial court."

"General Yan, if in a few years. Even me and Zhang Gong joined forces. can't take the Western Xia. Who do you think will be able to take Western Xia after the Song Dynasty? Defend with peace of mind, don't dream anymore, so why need a large ranch? If it can be taken, with the land of Western Xia, how can the imperial court lack a place for horse grazing? And once the summer war begins, the Fulin Road is particularly important, first, to cooperate with the Shaanxi Sixth Road to cut the summer, and second, to prevent the Liao army from going south. Place the new border army on Fulin Road. That's impossible. But in Shilan Erzhou, there is no problem. In addition, Hedong is mountainous and narrow, and the people are poor, if the imperial court provides a salary of more than a dozen yuan every year like Zheng Baiqu, and then distributes enough arable land to them, I believe that it will be welcomed by many Ding Zhuang. Then more than 6,000 hectares of cultivated land can at least recruit more than 15,000 border troops, and it is located in Shilan Erzhou, and you can support Daizhou if you go north. Crossing the Yellow River, you can support the Fulin Road. ”

Yan Da asked cautiously: "Can the imperial court's financial resources keep up?" ”

Don't think that only 20,000 forbidden soldiers will be recruited. If you recruit it, you have to give the relevant armor, and if you put cavalry, you have to prepare a war horse for it.

But after Wang Ju came back, various measures seem to have spent a lot of money.

"It's not a big deal." Wang Judao.

As long as the silk exchange can be recognized by everyone, then 100 million yuan can be issued this year and next year, which is equivalent to earning nearly 30 million yuan in disguised profits, but the current number of silk exchanges is larger, but there are more than 20 million yuan, which is enough to pay these expenses.

While the two were talking, Xiao Huangmen came in and said, "Taibao, the official family has sent you to Yanhe Hall to meet you." ”

"Okay," Wang Ju turned his head and said to Yan Da, "That's it, you see if there is anything else you need to add, write a piece to me." ”

With that, Wang Ju went to Yanhe Palace.

Zhao Ji was looking at the urgent performance presented by Hangzhou City Bosi with distress.

"See Your Majesty," Wang Ju gave a big gift.

"Wang Qing, was the person killed by Zhang Mu?"

"No, I can't tell from this piece alone. However, the case of Gong Wen is definitely biased, and if it is indeed as stated in this recital, it can only prove that the deceased was beaten by Zhang Mu, and it was not Zhang Mu's first move. Then the deceased was helped back to Li's house, where he died the next day, a period of time that was enough for too many things to happen. The first is where and when did the vomiting of blood initiate death? ”

"It's at Li's house, that night."

"Your Majesty, it's in the Li family, but where is it in the Li family? At the door, in the living room, or in a subordinate house, the beating occurs at dusk, but after returning home, does it vomit blood, or is it at the first watch, the second watch, or the third watch? Who saw it? These were all for interrogation and investigation, but Duke Wen didn't ask, and beheaded Zhang Mu. Could it be that Duke Wen is a fledgling official who doesn't understand anything? Of course, now the minister doesn't know if Zhang Mu killed him. Also, how far away the Qinglou where Xiuxiu is located from the Li family, the ministers don't know. If so, killing pays for life, even if Gong Wen arbitrarily adjudicates the case, it is not considered to be a reckless life. ”

This statement is relatively fair.

"What if so?"

"The family has family rules, and the country has national laws, so the merchants on the other side are appeased by me, is it possible that they can beat people to death at every turn because of their merits? However, the minister has never understood why the imperial court transferred Duke Wen to Hangzhou? ”

"Zi'an, this is the old man's idea," Wang Qi blamed himself.

"Why?"

"Last year's fiasco, Your Majesty needs to summon you back to stabilize the morale of the army, but Duke Wen has always been hostile to you in Luoyang, so Duke Wen must be transferred out of Luoyang. However, no matter where he is transferred to the north, there will be people who echo Wen Gong. can be adjusted to the south, and only Jiangning and Hangzhou can accommodate Duke Wen. ”

Lao Wang's idea can't be said to be wrong, and he can only be transferred to the south to eliminate Wen Yanbo's influence.

But if it is transferred to Jiangning, will Wang Anshi and Wen Yanbo have a king-to-king?

There is another reason why Wang Jue did not say it, that is, in a sense, seeing Wu Nan beating Zhizhou Zhou Xun, Wang Jue also disliked it. Of course, it is impossible to transfer Wen Yanbo to Quanzhou and Guangzhou, but the transfer to Hangzhou is also a deterrent to seafarers.

However, on the other hand, if Wen Yanbo did too much to Haike, the imperial court could further punish Wen Yanbo so that Wang Juhao could come back to do things.

But although Lao Wang was kind, he never expected that there would be a case of beating and murder.

But Zhao Ji was very angry in his heart, Huang He asked Wen Yanbo to go to Hangzhou, Wen Yanbo kept saying on the road that the maritime merchants were unruly, and they beat Zhou Xun hard, and the old minister was afraid.

It's called being afraid!

So he said: "Let Yushi Wang Huan go to Hangzhou to check." ”

The main reason is that the performance of the city division is not clear, and no one can tell whether the person was really killed by Zhang Mu.

Yes, that's a way of saying it. No, it's another way of saying it.

…………

"Zhu Dalang, this price is not right."

"Outside of Qi Yuan, what's wrong?"

"It is rumored in the northwest that because of poverty in Western Xia, the whole country mined Helan inkstone, and Helan inkstone should be cheaper, why did you still increase the price?" Qi Yuanwai said a little unhappily: "We are all old acquaintances." ”

"Qi Yuanwai, it's an old acquaintance, who gave you this price, think about it, where did Helan Yan come from?"

"Helan Mountain."

"It's Helan Mountain, but it's mined from the cliff of Helan Mountain, that's Helan Mountain, you know, it's several times higher than Kunshan Mountain, think about how difficult it is to mine, don't look at the goods now, the whole country of Xixia is mined, it won't be long before all the places that are easy to mine will be mined. At that time, its price is even higher than that of Tao Yan and Duan Yan. ”

Helan Mountain, good ...... Faraway!

Qi Yuan was suspicious, but he didn't care, wasn't it just a few inkstones, even if the price went up, just change to other inkstones. So I looked at the other prices on the list.

"Qi Yuanwai, I see that your complexion is a little bad recently."

"It's weird."

"Outside of Qi Yuan, in my opinion, I still think you should let it go."

"If you don't want money, then this piece of bamboo paper only has more than 20 wen in Hangzhou, but you sell it for 50 wen."

"Can it be the same, shipped from Hangzhou, is there really no freight, and this is also the price of the Beijing group, what does it have to do with me? You'll have to change careers this time. ”

Qi members are worried.

He mainly made a living from loan sharking, and the establishment of the banking department would have much impact on him.

Thinking of this, sigh.

"Actually, in my opinion, I don't need to sigh, do you know what the relationship between Xinzhizhou and that Taibao is?"

"So what, from the capital to Qingzhou, and from Qingzhou to Shaanzhou, what big waves can he make?"

"That's not necessarily, if you work together to persuade that Anzhizhou, besides, I heard another thing, Duke Wen beheaded a maritime leader in Hangzhou without repeating it."

"Oh."

"Hangzhou is a little far away, but Luoyang is near, who is in Luoyang, do you know?"

"Who is there in Luoyang?"

"Rich Duke, there are several high-ranking officials, they have a good relationship with Duke Wen and Anzhizhou, if you persuade Anzhizhou, from the officials to the main businessmen to jointly enter Beijing and protest to the imperial court, this matter will not be stopped."

"That's impossible, Xining's change of law hasn't stopped it, and it's the banking department."

"I said you don't understand, is Wang Jiefu a person? Lv Huiqing, Lv Gong, Han Jianggong, Han Weigong...... A lot of people are helping him, but who is helping the new prime minister. ”

Zhu Chun, the owner of this scholar's shop, just said it, but Qi Yuanwai pondered. It is not enough to rely on the squires of Shaanzhou and An Tao alone, but if some officials in Luoyang and the squires are united, maybe it will be done.

Moreover, Wen Yanbo began to exert his strength again in Hangzhou.

Thinking of this, he didn't ask Helan Yan anymore, and immediately arched his hand back.

"Hey, outside Qi Yuan, you haven't said how many ink, paper, and inkstones you purchased today!" Zhu Chun shouted from behind, but where could Qi Yuan listen. (To be continued.) )