"Now that Xixia is mourning, if it can be sold, the children will be sold." Han Yun said.

That is, this matter is done more smoothly.

However, whether it can have the effect that Wang Ju said, Han Yun is more skeptical.

In fact, Wang Ju also sent rangers to investigate in the territory of Western Xia, knowing some of the difficult scenes of Western Xia, and he could also analyze in Yanzhou that the Liang family might not object to Wang Ju's exchange of materials for livestock skins, and maybe it would have some help for Western Xia. However, after this battle, Western Xia also lost a large number of war horses, so the Liang clan forbade the people to exchange horses for Yanzhou. However, because of repeated prohibitions, some tribes saw the high price of horses, regardless of the danger of killing their heads, they still secretly brought good horses to Yanzhou to exchange materials with officers and soldiers. This also illustrates the poverty of the people of Western Xia.

Therefore, Wang Ju said lightly: "That's good." ”

"Zi'an, why did you give up Shrimp Toad Village?"

Wang Ju asked Han Yun to rush to the front line from Chang'an with two intentions, this battle was fought very badly in Western Xia, so he took this opportunity to hoard a large number of Helan stones at a low price.

The five famous inkstones of the Song Dynasty are Duan inkstone, Hui inkstone, Tao inkstone, red silk inkstone, and Chengni inkstone. In addition to these five famous inkstones, there are also some inkstones that are also famous, including Helan inkstones made of Helan stone.

However, scarcity is expensive, because the production of Helan stone was a bit high in the Song Dynasty, although it was a "foreign product", so it has not been expensive.

But are tulips a "rarity"? Moreover, the economy of Western Xia was so weak.

Of course, if you think about the success of the operation, there are still many difficulties, which have to be done step by step.

The second is to let Han Yun use the intelligence network formed by moonshine to see if he can find out some useful information. At least this internal intelligence. I can find information from the rangers. Carry out a good supplemental effect.

Han Yun did inquire about some information, and also heard a piece of news, in order to boost the people's hearts, the Liang family claimed that Renduo Lingding defeated the Song army at Shrimp Toad Ridge and recaptured this important village.

This news made Han Yun startled, could it be that Western Xia launched a counteroffensive against the Song army, it was not good news. After all, many officers and soldiers have been withdrawn one after another, and now there are not many troops in Gyeongju.

After coming back, I learned that Western Xia was spreading rumors.

But it still puzzled him.

Wang Ju said: "In fact, the truth is that the treasury is gradually empty, and it can no longer be fought. ”

"Alas," Han Yun sighed slightly.

"Now I have also revealed to Western Xia that I only occupy this section of Hengshan at present, but this section of Hengshan, at least on the surface, cannot directly threaten Lingwu Dao, and if you want to threaten Yanzhou, you must also pass through checkpoints such as the mouth of the camel. As long as I withdraw the army, the Western Xia will renovate these checkpoints one after another. Sent troops to garrison, although our dynasty occupied a section of Hengshan. But the threat is not that great. In addition, they are now very afraid of defeat, and the envoy has gone to the capital again, and our dynasty will definitely agree to the Xixia request for peace, as well as domestic opposition, economic and people's livelihood, and other issues, so the Western Xia will not dare to send troops. But if it occupies the shrimp and toad village, it will really threaten Lingwu Avenue, and it will also threaten Yanzhou, and even join forces with the officers and soldiers of Weizhou, and it can threaten the Douling and Xiaochuan areas. If it was too urgent, the Western Xia sent troops to rob it, and if it didn't work out, it would become a move to add to the snake, and it was not worth it for a stockade. ”

"I see."

However, Wang Ju sometimes felt confused, in short, this plan was discussed by him and Zhang Qi, and it was mainly safe.

When it is safe, the efficiency is reduced.

If Wang Shao were here, what would he do?

The two talked again, and Huang Hua pulled Han Yun down to eat and drink.

Wang Ju was pondering, and after a while, he gave another order, stopping the two salt exchange sites of Jintangcheng and Shunning Village, and instead transferred to Huaiwei Fort, which had just been built.

This fort is more than 70 miles west of Jintang City, located in the upper reaches of Beiluoshui, and is also one of the new forts at the forefront of the top.

Then he wrote a letter to Zhao Wei, after all, this Huaiwei Fort belongs to the jurisdiction of Gyeongju, in case Zhao Wei has a misunderstanding, since he dares to tear up with Han Jiang, he must also be a troublesome person, I have to explain.

Although it was transferred to Huaiwei Fort, the income from the private salt here still belonged to the rewards of the officers and soldiers of Yanyan Road, and the people used were still used by the people of Yanzhou and the security army to undertake the transportation task.

In fact, Wang Ju did this with one intention......

Zhang Qi came to Yanzhou from Dingbian City.

"Zi'an, your two dew cloths are inappropriate," the relationship between the two was good, and Zhang Qi was not polite, and said directly.

"Brother Qianfu, my two dew cloth preferential treatment are below the fourth class of good households, filial sons, martyrs, female households, widows and widows and below the fifth class, but do you think that in the near future, how many fifth-class households will there be in Huanqing?"

Now the people of the two states are crazy, especially the Han people, who are almost wearing the stars and the moon to transport salt, but the Tibetan people are a little lazy, but the Tibetan people are apportioned for military service, which has nothing to do with taxes and the apportionment of the Qingmiao Exemption Law, and even they are not on the household register. Just like the current Huanzhou, there are only five or six thousand households on the household register, but there are nearly 20,000 households in the actual household. But how many households, I'm afraid no official can figure it out.

It's not over after this money grab.

For the time being, the green salt was transported to a few forts and put into storage, and Wang Ju did not prevent the merchant from transporting the green salt back immediately, but under this high freight price, how many people could the merchant hire?

However, after the end of this salt grab, the labor gradually came out, and at that time, the merchants would successively transport the salt back from the forts, but Wang Ju promised to keep it for them, and when the time came, the salt would be handed over in full, and no fees would be charged, and any soldiers would be forbidden to extort money, so these merchants would not be so anxious, so the freight was still very low, in order to obtain the maximum profit.

But you have to give some freight, otherwise the people are willing to transport it for them? Although it may be low, it is better than the large number, which will also allow some poor people to get further rewards.

Therefore, in the future, there will not be many real fifth-class households in the Liangzhou Army. There are not many fifth-class households, so the impact on apportionment will not be too great.

"The Seedlings Law is a little better, but the arrival of the Exemption Law will still have an impact." Zhang Qi said. The amount of the exemption law is even larger, even if there is no comparison, with comparison, the heroes will still have grievances.

"I also thought about it, there was no other way. You can only find a way to spare money. First take out the amount of the court's spare money and show it to everyone. Then he wrote to the imperial court, saying that Huanqing Road had caused a large number of casualties because of the war, and asked the imperial court to temporarily exempt this spare money. As long as this spare money is exempted, the actual amount of money allocated by the powerful will not increase much, and the resentment will disappear. ”

"Will the court agree?"

"Will you agree, with you and me in Gyeongju, why be afraid? If you don't agree, there is a way to get them to agree. ”

It's a big deal to make a little bit of a fuss at the border. It's going to start fighting again, let's see if Wang Anshi still wants this spare money.

Zhang Ji couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "It's not a long-term solution. ”

"Let's delay it for a day, maybe we leave Gyeongju, and soon Shinchiju will abolish these two rubus." Wang Ju said helplessly.

"I don't know when the imperial court will get better?" Zhang Qi sighed.

The exemption money is a little better, isn't this spare money disgusting?

Wang Ju was also speechless, that is, it has improved, and this spare money is indispensable, and he will also come up with a more brainless hand method in the future. It is precisely because of this practical method, although Lu Huiqing has always been good to Wang Ju. Wang Ju has always been inseparable from Lu Huiqing. But is it really Lu Huiqing's fault?

"By the way, my brother wrote me a letter. Look. ”

That is, Zhang Dian wrote a family letter to Zhang Ji, but this letter is not a family letter, and the letter talks a lot about the national politics of Gyeongju.

First of all, Zhang Dian wrote about the movements of the ministers of the court before and after the Battle of Gyeongju, which made Zhang Ji a little disappointed, because it was not Wang Anshi who said the most good things for Wang Ju, but Wang Qi and Lu Huiqing.

Although Wang Jufei is the minister of Wang Anshi's faction, all in all, he is a courtier who is biased towards the reformers, and the victory in this battle has greatly helped to consolidate Wang Anshi's phase and change.

"Brother Qianfu, Jiefu has a noble heart, so what about it...... You don't have to be too disappointed. Wang Ju comforted, and then continued to look down.

What Zhang Dian wrote next was that the imperial court was having a serious dispute over how to ask for rewards for the soldiers, and Zhao Xuan's reward was vetoed by Wen Yanbo on the grounds that it was too heavy, and he was afraid that in the future, the border ministers and soldiers would be imitated, the border would be restless, and the war would be endless. What exactly Zhao Ji rewarded made Wen Yanbo so excited, and Zhang Dian didn't know very well, after all, he was not a heavy minister now.

This Zhang Ji is not angry, Wen Yanbo is an anti-war faction, and he opposes the court's heavy reward, which is willing.

The next thing is what Zhang Qi is really angry about.

The war is over, Wang Ju is grabbing salt, and now the court also knows that this is a trophy, even Wen Yanbo is not easy to refute, at most he said a few words, can salt be taxed?

But it is a stolen salt, not salt, Wang Ju can't be regarded as violating the court system by doing this, Wen Yanbo is helpless.

But it's a lot of money, and new problems arise.

After this war, Shaanxi's grain reserves were exhausted, and even some grain and grass had to be transferred from the rear to support.

However, the Seedlings Law is linked to grain loans, and when there is no grain storage, how to issue seedlings loans.

Therefore, Wang Anshi was calculating the consumption of the First Battle of Gyeongju and the amount of grain and grass transferred to Gyeongju, and planned to partially deduct the amount of grain and grass requested by Wang Ju.

Zhang Dian was not on the front line, and he didn't know the situation on the front line, but he vaguely felt that it would bring trouble to Gyeongju, so he wrote a letter home and actually sent it to Zhang Qi with a fast horse.

But can this be deducted?

Before the war, in order to clear the wilderness, even a part of the grain and grass that could not be transferred to the fortress were burned, and then the people were transferred to the rear.

At that time, because the villages transferred grain and grass to Zhubao, the three armies did not lack grain and grass.

However, after the war, the people returned, and the grain and grass were promised to be repaid to the people. Besides, there are still some garrisons, and so many prisoners of war are working, and they have to eat and drink, and they have to be deducted from a gram, so shouldn't there be big trouble?

Therefore, after receiving this letter in Dingbian City, Zhang Ji immediately rushed to Yanzhou.

"Zi'an, is the Qingmiao Law really based on the countryside and grain loans?"

Its essence is the method of collecting money, that may be the countryside, mainly grain loans, this is just a nice saying, in fact, it is mainly money loans, mainly urban households, why do you say that urban households are the mainstay, because the first and second class households are mostly in the city, isn't it mainly urban households?

However, this war has exhausted Shaanxi's grain reserves, and it has indeed brought some trouble to Qingmiaofa's wealth accumulation, but the problem is not this...... It's that if you don't stand in line, you will be neutral, and you will immediately become a child who doesn't hurt your father and doesn't love your mother!

Wang Ju thought for a while and said: "Brother Qianfu, in this way, if you put another piece of dew cloth, the price of green seedlings and grain will remain unchanged, and the price of the remaining rice will increase by 15 wen per bucket, beans and wheat will rise by 10 wen, and millet will rise by 5 wen." ”

"Wonderful!"

The price of grain that has risen refers to the price at which the position is often closed and sold to the people of the city.

In fact, some businessmen have vaguely felt that after this war, the grain is a little tight, as long as the position is often closed, the price of all grain will rise together.

This has two intentions, this increase actually erases the two cents of the interest of the green seedling loan, and the green seedling loan does not even need to be helped, as long as it is distributed in the form of grain, it will be claimed immediately.

The second is to learn from Wang Anshi's practice in Yinxian County. In the seventh year of Qingli, the two Zhejiang regions in the south of the Yangtze River were hit by a catastrophe, and the price of rice quickly rose from 400 wen per stone to 1,500 wen. However, Wang Anshi, who was the magistrate of Yinxian County, did something else and issued a lubu to allow the price of rice to rise, so it quickly rose to 3,000 wen. For a time, the people's resentment boiled, and the scolding was endless.

As a result, the southeast grain merchants heard that the price of rice in Yinxian County was high, and they trafficked the grain to Yinxian County together, so the more the grain was backlogged, the more and more the grain increased, and Wang Anshi did some tricks and feet, which could be transported in but could not be transported back, so they had to sell it at a reduced price.

In the end, the price of rice in the surrounding area once rose to 5,000 meters, but the grain in Yinxian County was very sufficient, so the people could live a stable life.

Wang Jufei is letting the price of food rise to that point.

This is because there is no shortage of grain on Shaanxi Road, at most there is a shortage of grain loans for green seedlings.

Nowadays, most of the green salt is stored in the forts, but some small number of merchants bring people from the rear and transport the green salt back one after another. When they went, they were in heavy trucks, and when they came, they were mostly empty.

However, the price of grain has risen by ten wen, which is enough to pay for the freight of the people, and some merchants must have transported the grain to Gyeongju from the rear.

Moreover, the quantity of this batch of green salt is very large, and it has to be transported for a long time, so the amount of grain transported from the rear will not be small, which will also solve the problem of lack of grain and grass in Gyeongju.

But this is still a helpless move, Wang Ju thought about it again, and said: "After Xiang Yu captured Xianyang, some people persuaded him to set the capital, but because he missed his hometown, he was anxious to return to the east, and said that wealth and nobility do not return to their hometown, such as clothes and brocade night walking, who knows." Therefore, Han Gong thought that he had made great contributions to the Great Song Dynasty, and built a house in his hometown and named it Jindaytang. So if the three armies have made great contributions to the Great Song Dynasty, won't they be able to return to their hometowns and return to their hometowns with honor? (To be continued......)