"Your Majesty is in the prime of spring and autumn, and the prince is young, how can he be engaged?" Fan Chunren said eagerly.

Not only him, but Cai did not agree either.

Some ministers almost said that it was ridiculous.

Wang Ju thought to himself, Spring and Autumn are in full bloom, if Spring and Autumn are in full bloom, I won't be so anxious.

He stood up and said, "My lords, this is my own hand. In the summer, the prince was seriously ill, and the minister came to report to His Majesty, and said a lot of things that day, and His Majesty did not want the minister to retire in the future, but the minister did not agree. His Majesty wanted to keep the ministers in the form of joint relatives, but the ministers still did not agree. Why, once the Western Xia was pacified, the country had to rest for at least a few years, and if this was the case, the system had been perfected in the past few years. The ministers who can touch it have already touched it, and those who dare not touch it believe that they will not dare to touch it in the future. ”

"Either Yanyun, but the Liao State is really not to be underestimated, if they attack our realm, the time and place are favorable, and the two sides will win and lose each other, and even the victory rate of our dynasty is far greater than the defeat rate. But I wanted to invade the Liao Kingdom, and the defeat rate was infinitely magnified. Why? Our Jingshui army is the western army, so let them fight in the northwest, and they are very familiar with the weather and climate, but if they are placed in Hedong, Hebei, it is not easy to exert their combat effectiveness. Therefore, although the Liao State is becoming more and more corrupt, in the past ten years, it is not the time to recover Yanyun. And if you want to recover Yanyun, you must retrain a large number of new border troops in Hedong, Hebei, of course, at that time, the northwest has long been stable, even if the forces are transferred to Hedong, Hebei, the state expenditure will not increase but decrease. ”

However, during this long period of time, the ministers stayed in the country, and the role was not much. Therefore, he wanted to retire successfully, and he also rejected His Majesty's kindness. However, when the minister suddenly thought of Renzong (referring to the controversy caused by Empress Guo). The prince has to be trained by the elite since he was a child. The princess also needs to be cultivated. However, the princess doesn't know who she is, how to cultivate it? So the minister recommended the little lady of the Di family at that time, of course, the minister didn't know the little lady of the Di family, but I heard my little concubine mention this little lady, first of all, after the meritorious service of the military general, my royal family has always been associated with the meritorious service of the military general, which is already a tradition. Secondly, this little lady's life experience is a little complicated (referring to pitiful). Therefore, it is destined that the character will not be arrogant and spicy. In the end, this little lady is beautiful, His Majesty was worried at the time, the minister said that Queen Jia is ugly, but can her character be dignified? The eldest grandson queen is as beautiful as a flower, is it considered a virtuous queen through the ages. Personality is not necessarily related to appearance, it is mainly genetic, acquired encounters, and its teachings. If the princess is really ugly, how can the husband and wife be friendly? ”

"Of course, the minister is just a proposal, and the reason why it has been delayed for so long is that His Majesty has put it forward. I think that His Majesty sent someone to inspect it for a long time, and indeed his character attracted His Majesty. That's why His Majesty finally decided to discuss this family matter. ”

Zhao Ji's forehead.

This is not a trivial matter, and Wang Ju has nothing to do with the Di family, it is just hearsay.

Therefore, he did send someone to secretly observe for a long time, maybe this little girl was angry with Di Yong's wife, and after arriving at the uncle's house, she was still cautious, well-behaved, and pitiful, even the secret agent of the Imperial City Division who was secretly observing couldn't help but sigh.

I have everything, and it's just an engagement, so what's the need to drag?

But this is really not good, one is that the Song Dynasty did not have such a convention, and the other is that the betrothal is married, even if the little lady of the Di family will not enter the palace in a few years, what is it to stay in the Di family?

Fan Chunren wanted to speak, but Li Qingchen secretly pulled his sleeve.

The Di family is the Di family, and the engagement is the engagement of the family, which is better than letting Wang Ju be the national ruler.

Think about the emperor's body, and then think about Wang Ju's body, in case the emperor is sick, Wang Ju is the national abbot, with his prestige, if you want to make a mistake, want to be Wang Mang and Yang Jian, who can control it? Although Wang Ju really doesn't have this mind now, people will change, and at that time, what if he has this mind?

Maybe booking this family business in advance will be beneficial to the Great Song Dynasty.

Not only did he think so, but many ministers also thought so.

Although some of them respect Wang Ju very much, they respect Wang Ju as a minister, not Wang Ju who is dressed in imperial robes.

Therefore, Wang Ju's goal has also been achieved, and I believe that with Little Lady Di, Zhao Xu's harem will no longer be messy. As long as Zhao Xu is healthy, even if he stays up for two or three more years, he will continue to fight for the Xiang family, and it will never be Zhao Ji's turn to be the emperor again.

But there is still work to be done.

The minister has passed, and there are two women in the palace.

Therefore, after being on duty, he had to send someone to the Di family secretly, and first instructed the Di family to refuse again and again. Even if you are crazy, you have to refuse again and again, and if you don't refuse three or four times, don't agree.

What to do, who made the Song Dynasty popular with such a hypocritical atmosphere.

Secondly, teach this little lady Di that once she has an idea in the palace, she will at least let the little girl enter the palace and let Gao Tao take a look. Therefore, the little girl must be taught in advance, and when she sees Gao Taotao, she must be greatly respected, and it is best to say a few words to make Gao Taotao happy, so that she can successfully become the queen of the world of the Great Song Dynasty in the future.

There are still many things, this is only engagement, not marriage, think about how many people will be jealous, so the Di family will be more and more low-key in the future, so that they will not be hated.

And once you enter the palace, even if you become a queen, you have to have great respect for the two strong women in the palace, especially Gao Tao, of course, this last sentence, needless to say for the time being, when you get to the other side, you will make the final order.

Everyone slowly withdrew from the vertical arch hall, and Zhang Dian chased after him and asked, "Zi'an, after pacifying Western Xia, do you really go to the other side?" ”

Quite a few people stopped, but not just to the other side.

Wang Ju stopped and said: "I am not Zhongyong written by Jiefu Gong, I am very talented, I don't remember much about what happened when I was a few years old. The only teacher who really taught was my teacher, so I have always kept in mind his teachings and protected the people of Shaanxi. In addition, my father was killed by the Tanguts, so the eradication of the Tangut became the biggest dream of my life. ”

"After the destruction of the Western Xia, not to mention that I don't mean much to the Song Dynasty anymore, I also feel very tired and want to rest. Sima Guang once mocked me for going to the other side to be an overseas king, which was simply a joke and wiped out the Western Xia. The people of Shaanxi were protected. I want to take a break too. ”

In fact, it doesn't matter if you go to the other side or not. Wang Ju is an overseas king.

But in his life, even if he goes to the other side, it is impossible to be an overseas king.

But deliberately saying it is also to relieve everyone's suspicions.

"Since you have rested, you must have a good rest, why bother to seem to be broken, that is not called seeming to be broken, but hypocrisy. My life. Some people call me cruel, some people say I am decisive, but no one says I am hypocritical. I don't care about hypocrisy. ”

How can it not be hypocritical, if you are not hypocritical, you will not be able to survive in the political arena of the Song Dynasty, but the same hypocrisy, some people are more clever, and some people are not smart.

But Zhang Dian believed unconditionally, and he also heard it, once Wang Juping destroyed Western Xia. How much credit will be given at that time?

Not to mention military merits, Guan Jian Wang Ju is not only military merits.

If the court still needs Wang Ju. And Wang Ju is urgently needed, it doesn't matter if Wang Ju stays in the Song Dynasty. After Guan Jianping destroyed the Western Xia, when it was time to rest and recuperate, Wang Ju was not so urgent to need, and Wang Ju was disgusted at that time.

But is the emperor really that kind of person?

Although Zhao Ji is seriously suspicious, he is not a person who is sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox, Guan Jian is not Zhao Ji, but Gao Taotao, where can Zhang Xuan think about it.

The various officials returned to the various ministries.

But it was only a while, Zhao Ji summoned all the bigwigs to Yanhe Hall again.

The Northwest is coming.

Zhang Qi uses a plan, and the wind and snow set the sky.

There are many factors for the success of this battle, not only as Guo Cheng and the others thought, but also because the bad weather was undefended, and the morale changes of both sides brought about by the victory in Pingxia City were actually a fatal factor.

The Song Dynasty used to be a passive defense, until Fan Zhongyan first advocated a shallow attack, but it was also a passive shallow attack, the scope of front-line activities can not be too large, loyal to or surrendered to the Song Dynasty tribes to win over, the diehards of the villages to exterminate, so that there is a mass base, then step by step to move the fort forward, as long as the entire Hengshan area is taken with this passive shallow attack tactics, the Western Xia is not harmful.

Aside from the exchange between Wang Ju and Zhang Ji about shallow attack tactics...... In fact, what Li Xian and Chong Ge put forward is also an expanded version of Fan Zhongyan's passive shallow attack tactics, not that Cheng Ge is inferior to Li Xian, but mainly because Xu Xi did not choose Yongle City improperly.

The Battle of Pingxia City was actually an expanded version of this passive shallow attack tactic, and it was a successful version.

But in fact, the real shallow attack is not only to build a city outside the border first, rely on this city, and engage the Western Xia, but also rely on this city to launch an attack on the garrisons of the Western Xia.

However, this distance should not be too far, preferably within a hundred miles.

Okay, let's look at the distance between Dangqiang and Tiandu Village, or the distance from Shengqiang Village to Xiaoguan.

However, where can Renduo Lingding think of it?

Moreover, with the strengthening of the defense of the surrounding areas of Tiandu Village, the Song Dynasty did not expand new forts except for the forts that had been built, and it was this bad weather that Tiandu Zhai was almost in a state of no defense.

More than 10,000 Song troops suddenly touched it, this battle, not only killed more than 3,000 resisting Xia troops, but also captured more than 6,000 Xia soldiers, including Ren Duo Ling Ding was also captured alive, Tiandu Mountain is not only an important throat of Western Xia, but also where the palace is located, warm in winter and cool in summer, although the scale of this palace is getting smaller and smaller, there are many nobles who come here to spend the winter, and they were also captured by Guo Cheng and Zhi Keshi one by one in one fell swoop.

There are still many Xia troops in the forts around Tiandu Mountain, but so many important hostages were captured by the Song army, and even the main general Renduo Lingding was captured.

Therefore, Guo Cheng and Zhe Keshi plundered a large amount of wealth and livestock, including war horses, and won two great victories, and captured nearly 30,000 Xixia horses before and after! As for the cattle and sheep, there are countless of them.

Zhao Ji's body trembled excitedly, Renduo Lingding and Renduo Baozhong father and son, Renduo Baozhong, forget it, but this Renduo Lingding, in the battle of Vaxia, can make the Song army suffer.

"Your Majesty, in fact, it really doesn't matter, there are many generals whose military talent is no less than Ren Duo Ling Ding or better than Ren Duo Ling Ding, and the ministers can cite a few people at will, and they are living people, not to mention Zhang Qianfu, Li Xian, Liu Changzuo, Miao Zhu These people are all above Ren Duo Lingding, and there are more generals who are similar to or not bad, Yao brothers, and Yao Xiong, the son of Yao Ji, Miao Lu, Guo Cheng, Zhe Keshi, Wang Wenyu and other generals, even if the young generals, such as Liu Fa grow up, they will not be inferior to Ren Duo Lingding."

During this time, the famous generals of the Song Dynasty were like clouds, and Guan Jian was not used well in the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Ji was surprised: "Li Xian? ”

"Yes, I think that talents are not necessarily limited to that type of person. Let's look at what Mencius said. Shun is born in the acre. Fu said that it was lifted in the plate building, the rubber mustache was lifted in the fish and salt, Guan Yiwu was lifted in the Shi, Sun Shu Ao was lifted in the sea, and Baili Xi was held in the city. How can you judge a hero because of your background, as long as you are a talent, the country should use it, how can you be like a thief because of a eunuch. ”

In fact, the eunuch seemed to have really become a positive hero in the Song Dynasty.

Don't say Tong Guan. Seriously, Tong Guan is not bad, but he sadly met Yelu Dashi. Such a hero, let alone Tong Guan, even if Yue Fei passes, he can live up to it, then it is good.

But Wang Ju didn't know that it was because of this sentence that a few years later, some people could not do what they wanted.

However, Wang Ju did not deliberately want to win over the eunuchs, and said that these words were for the purpose of the following generals.

"Of course, this victory should be celebrated. If it is not for the brave generals, the country really has no shortage of brave generals now. What is lacking is handsome. Through these battles, Zhang Zhifu has proven his military talent, and it has also proved that he has grown up. In this way, with Zhang Shangying and other ministers managing their finances, all the axioms, and Zhang Qianfu in charge of the troops when they were critical, the Great Song Dynasty would be peaceful. ”

That is, if I leave, as long as Da Song makes good use of these people, it will be too peaceful.

Everyone sighed again.

In fact, Wang Ju said it repeatedly, which was also to remind others that we would not stay in the Song Dynasty for a long time, so don't be suspicious of me.

But this battle is not only Tiandu Mountain, the real intention is Xiao Guan.

Zhang Qi returned from the south in a simple manner, and Wang Ju talked to him for a long time and formulated a strategic plan.

It's just a rough idea, and the specific need for Zhang Qi to plan and arrange, this approximate strategic plan is divided into three steps.

The first step is Pingxia City, and the second step is the fort around Pingxia City.

The third step depends on the situation, one looks at the economic situation of the imperial court, and the other depends on the loss of Western Xia troops.

In fact, the first step of the third step plan is to surprise the Tiandu Mountain, and the second step is where the real intention lies, Xiao Guan!

If Xiao Pass is to occupy it is of great significance, and if you want to cut down the summer, for example, the five routes of the Song Dynasty in the year before the summer, whether it is the North Second Road of Chong Ge or the West Road of Li Xian, they are all a little far away. The nearest ones are Jingyuan Road and Huanqing Road.

Huanqing Road is closer because Wang Ju occupied part of Hengshan, but it is also three or four hundred miles away from Lingzhou, and more than three hundred miles is not far. This is why a large number of people have gone with the army.

However, this is undoubtedly very dangerous.

Or starting from Jingyuan Road, then you have to move forward step by step from the Zhenrong Army, that is Liu Changzuo's, if it is an ordinary general, push it to Xiaoguan, I'm afraid it won't be able to push.

What if Xiao Guan takes it down?

To the south of Xiao Pass is the terrain of the Ridge Beam, but after Xiao Pass, it is mostly a land of Pingchuan, in front of which is Mingsha City, and Mingsha City is Lingzhou down, which undoubtedly poses a fatal threat to Western Xia.

But why did the Song Dynasty not move towards Xiaoguan after the victory of Pingxia City? The main reason is that it is too far away from the front line, the mass base is weak, and it is lonely in the enemy territory, and the terrain of Xiaoguan is so important, if it is not done well, it will become the battle of Yongle City, even if it is not a fiasco, if it is not a heavy sacrifice, it is not worth it.

Therefore, the first step was Pingxia City, and after the great victory, the rangers were sent to Tiandu Mountain to attract the nearby Qiang tribes, and also to attract some of the tribes south of Xiaoguan, but in order to confuse the enemy, they mainly carried out activities around Tiandu Mountain.

But with these co-optation and contact, some tribes will fall to the Song Dynasty, and after the Battle of Pingxia City, the Western Xia will be even more embarrassed, and it will also provide favorable conditions for winning over the various tribes. With the support of the forts in the rear, it is no longer an isolated city standing overseas.

Therefore, with the battle of the wind and snow, one is a great deterrent, and the other is to consume a large number of Xia troops.

As the Song army stepped on the ice and snow, out of the victory of Qiang, the mighty came to the city of Xiaoguan, the artillery roared, countless tiger cannons continued to fire, only three days, the Lord of Xiaoguan saw that there was no rescue, had to lead the troops to surrender.

Zhao Ji was overjoyed when he saw the news.

The rise of Western Xia was to step on the corpses of countless Song army to ascend to the throne, first in the four states of Dingnan, then Yanzhou, then Lingzhou, and then Xiaoguan, and even once expanded the sphere of influence to Liupan Mountain.

Therefore, the recovery of Xiaoguan is of great significance to the Song Dynasty.

Of course, now it can only be said that it will be taken, and it will have to survive the attack launched by the Western Xia, and several forts will be built around the spring next year, so that Xiao Guan can really belong to the Song Dynasty.

But now, where can Western Xia draw out heavy troops and counterattack Xiao Pass back?

And there was a bonus. Because of the wind and snow, the harvest is huge. In addition, Han Yun made a profit from Helan Stone. The sacrifices were not heavy, so almost all the support of the state was rarely used in this battle.

In the Yanhe Palace, the ministers looked at each other, but there were many who were happy and few who were speechless.

Indeed, in terms of the ability to accumulate wealth over the years, Wang Ju is not as good as Wang Anshi. The treasury surplus is very slow.

Even the state's fiscal revenue has declined slightly, including the income from Yunnan Lianglu and Jiaozhi Road, as well as the income from the banking department and Qishang tax, which is only about 180 million.

But don't forget how many policies the state has implemented in recent years to benefit the people, and there have been two large-scale battles in a row.

Internal governance, finance, and martial arts have almost reached the peak of the Song Dynasty!

Therefore, many ministers couldn't help but look at Wang Ju, and a glint of respect flashed in their eyes.

No matter how many shortcomings Wang Ju has, but this talent. It is definitely comparable to all the sages of the ages.

Wang Ju said: "Your Majesty, don't be happy. With the talent of Zhang Qianfu, it is not surprising that only the imperial court is not restrained, and even the Western Xia is broken. What the minister wants to say is another thing, that is, the number of households in the world. When the minister was participating in political affairs, he asked the household department to count the number of households in the world, and the number of households in Yunnan Lianglu and Jiaozhi Road was more than 900,000, and the remaining 17.1 million households. Among them, the main households are more than 1,226,000 households, and the customer households are more than 4.9 million. However, this year, Yunnan Lianglu and Jiaozhi Road are 1.38 million households, and these three roads are rough and do not need to be cared for, and then the number of households on other roads is more than 12.8 million households, and the number of customers is nearly 6 million. That is, the original number of households has reached more than 18 million. ”

It is not clear how many households Wang Ju has taken away in recent years, because many of them are homeless people, so it is impossible to count, but they all know that at least more than 200,000 households have been taken away.

There are also casualties caused by two fiascos, that's it, the Song Dynasty has increased by 1.6 million households in just five years, and Wang Ju is speechless when he thinks about it, so far the statistics on the other side last winter are only 1.5 million households! And the number of mouths per household may be less than the number of mouths in the Song Dynasty.

But this Wang Ju was helpless.

However, through this comparison, everyone's mood is still a little heavy.

This was the sacrifice of constant migration and two fiascos, and if it weren't for it, how much would the population of the Song Dynasty swell to now?

"Ladies and gentlemen, you can also understand what I said. Don't expect the other side, Your Majesty, although the ministers are incompetent, and the Great Song Dynasty has seen many shortcomings, but he has no wisdom to solve them, but he is barely competent. At least under the auspices of the ministers, the burden of the poor people has been reduced in recent years, so fewer and fewer people are willing to go to the other side. This is also a proof that there are fewer and fewer people who cannot survive and have no way out. But even if it is too much, the other side is not willing to accept it. ”

At the suggestion of the ministers, a large amount of gold and silver was moved to our dynasty on the other side, so that the economy on the other side was extremely empty, and even the principal of the bank on the other side was moved, and everyone trembled to maintain the credibility of the bank, and the merchants sold a large number of pit and mining workshops to the people who got rich first. However, because too much gold and silver were transferred, the economy of the other side was very embarrassed, so the minister proposed a 30 million, which was beneficial to our dynasty, but it was not a good thing for the other side, and it overdrew the future trade of the other side. However, it is a helpless move, and only in this way can the economy on the other side be turned around. But only this time, if the next minister does this, all the merchants on the other side will be disgusted with the minister, and the minister will not be able to exert any influence on them. The ministers are kind to them, and they are also repaying the favor, but there is always a time to repay the kindness! ”

This is a half-truth.

But it is true that from next year, the other side will no longer provide as much support as before, and it will indeed affect the development of the other side.

But saying it this way can further reduce everyone's suspicions, especially Zhao Ji's suspicions.

"Not only in terms of donations, but also in terms of migrating people, on the other side is the world created by businessmen, they are aiming for profit, and the intention of migrating people is also for profit, but now that the number of people is increasing, they are not so eager for the people. In addition, there were many scholars and doctors in the imperial court who were suspicious, and they were not willing to move the people on a large scale. Therefore, this crisis of population expansion will become more and more serious the further it goes. ”

The faces of the group were equally heavy.

If you include the three southern roads, it is almost 20 million households.

How many people are in this household, and the brick families of later generations are often counted as five people per household, and they dare to think that it was the China of family planning in ancient times.

Look at these accounts.

"The people of Shu have increased over the years, and the open land has been cleared, and only then can there be thirty or fifty acres of land. or five or seven acres; and supported a family of more than a dozen. Unfamiliar. That is, to turn the ravines of death". There are more than a dozen people in a family in Bashu!

"Only by borrowing silkworms to do things, a family of ten raises silkworms and ten foils...... It is very accurate to give food and clothing at this age." Chen Yang's "Book of Agriculture" refers to the fourth and fifth class poor households, and one household is counted as ten people.

"The three of them share a bowl of lamps, spinning clothes all night, eight people in the same half room, and cooking rice is often insufficient." is so poor, there are eight people in a family.

"(Su Song) when he was in the museum. Hire a maid. Q: What is his home? The clouds live outside Caomen, but ...... Stone Lotus. Q: What is the difference between the members of the family? The clouds are all the same, and there is no other karma. "A family of ten.

Even after the Yuan and Mongolian crippling of Hangzhou, "the number of households in the city is about 300,000, and the population is about 1.5 million", and the number of people in one household still reached five (Marco Polo's Travels).

Wang Ju did not know the average number of people in a household in the Song Dynasty, but it can be seen from the extremely poor people who migrated that these people were extremely poor, and even had relatives staying inland. There are more than five people in one household.

Therefore, Wang Ju estimated that a household in the Song Dynasty could reach six and a half people, and this was the lowest.

That is, the current Song Dynasty includes the three southern roads. As well as the living and fugitive households, the population is at least 130 million or more, and if you estimate it for many miles, it may be close to 150 million!

"The more people benefit, the more the population swells, especially on Fujian Road, since the massive migration of the destitute people, coupled with the pull of trade, often a fourth-class household can have five or six children. It's really enviable to think about it, Your Majesty, the minister doesn't worry about food and clothing, but so far there are only so many children......"

Zhao Ji was also happy.

Don't look at how many children Wang Ju gave birth to, all of them survived, but compared to this aspect, Wang Ju is really inferior to Zhao Ji.

The other ministers were equally impressed.

Actually, it's a big hole......

"But fortunately, the minister was lucky enough to bring several kinds of miscellaneous grains from the other side, although because the minister went to the other side, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians were sacrificed, so that the minister was often awakened by nightmares, but with these kinds of miscellaneous grains, it can barely be regarded as a crime."

This is merit, to be expressed, to boast.

Otherwise, it will be buried in the future.

However, Wang Ju was very subtle.

"If it weren't for the annexation, with the importance that our dynasty attaches to farmland and water conservancy, plus miscellaneous grains and newly opened territories, it can accommodate at least 30 million households. In fact, this is also an immortal feat, during the Tianbao period, at the peak of the Tang Dynasty, such a large territory only accommodated how many households. But with the merger, the situation may not be so rosy. ”

"Don't count on the other side," Wang Ju said heavily: "The more people on the other side, the more advantageous it is to use these merchants, but in order to migrate the people, they have encountered pressure from many sides, although they have donated so much money. In addition, the number of people has gradually increased, and the merchants on the other side have insufficient motivation to migrate the people. ”

That's what to say.

As the number of civilians on the other side increased, the suspicion of the imperial court became more and more serious.

Don't be suspicious, we're not uncommon now.

Actually, I don't say how much I can migrate, but how much I can migrate.

Having said that, however, the nature is quite different.

"And when there was an economic tension on the other side, not only donations, but for these donations, the merchants sold many pit and mine workshops to relieve their economic pressure. The main thing is to settle the people who migrate, and I used to say not to move too much, but they didn't listen. Now I regret it one by one. Ladies and gentlemen, you can understand what I mean, that is, even if the population of our dynasty swells to 50 million households in the future, the merchants on the other side of the strait will have no motivation to migrate a large number of people to relieve the pressure on the population of our dynasty, and they will not have the strength to settle too many immigrants, and the number of migrations in the past few years has almost reached the extreme they can bear! ”

"There is no motivation to migrate on the other side, the internal policy benefits the people, which is conducive to the reproduction of the people, the population will expand faster, if there is no annexation, our dynasty can accommodate 30 million households, and there is still a lot of time to buffer. There are also mergers and acquisitions. Your Majesty, although these policies are benefiting the people, they have benefited all the powerful and powerful. The more wealth they have, the more powerful the annexation. If the annexation reaches a certain point, the country will also have a crisis despite the coarse grains. ”

"There is also a proof that the official households of the Song Dynasty were exempt from two taxes, but the non-official households were transferred to the names of the tenant farmers in order to avoid taxes, and the real tenant farmers became fake tenants, which not only reduced the number of customers, but also inflated the number of main households, resulting in 'false names and consignments, false names and tenants, fleeing and dying, lawsuits urging the department, blaming the head of the household, breaking the family and exhausting the property, which is not enough to compensate, so when the errand is served, many ways to avoid it, the powerful raise the property to conceal it, and the powerless person flees with his wife, and there are those who cannot be determined after one or two years.' Further push customers into a corner. Therefore, Song Shenzong investigated and dealt with this matter one after another, in the seventh year of Xining, only in Wuxi, Changzhou, there were 5,000 households who escaped from the false name of the tenant, and in the second year of Yuanfeng, the number of false name and tenant in Huainan reached 475,965 households! Wang Ju said that this false name is a coercion, that is, the customers counted by the household department are far fewer than the actual customers). Therefore, this time, when I asked the Ministry of Households to order the prefectures and counties to check the number of households, they marked the number of households in each category. ”

"The customers are not counted, let's just say that the main household is more than 12.9 million, the third-class households are only more than 3 million, the fourth-class households are 4 million, and the fifth-class households have reached more than 5 million! Can a fifth-class household still be considered a main household? However, in order to collect taxes, even if the people have a little asset in their hands, one acre of cultivated land is also divided into the ranks of the main households. Aside from the fictitious tenants, in fact, the poor people still account for most of the proportion of the main households! ”

"Moreover, a few years ago, the minister sent the household department to verify that the main household was more than 1,226 thousand, but now after implementing so many policies to benefit the people, the main household has only increased by more than 500,000. Looking at the proportion of customers, despite the implementation of so many policies to benefit the people and the migration of so many people living in extreme poverty, the number of customers has increased by 1 million. This shows that the scale of the merger is expanding and spreading. ”

Don't go down to investigate, the Song Dynasty is so big, it's not easy to investigate.

However, these cold numbers are the best proof!

Why is Wang Ju going to promote the system of contracting mountains, tidal flats, lakes and lakes after this household count, because with this data, there will be soil for promotion.

The merger is too powerful, and the imperial court needs to introduce some policy regulation.

But it's not too late to say it.

Wang Ju said: "Your Majesty, my lords, I have launched some policies to benefit the people, many people oppose them, and there are indeed some policies, mainly to benefit the poor people, what public opinion rights do they have?" So these policies were launched in the front, and the back looked like the world was in turmoil. But in fact, I don't dare to touch the biggest drawback of our dynasty - merger! (To be continued.) )