> rise and fall of ancient Chinese dynasties have certain laws to follow. In the initial period, it is common to recuperate, accumulate wealth, and cultivate national strength, otherwise it will quickly fall into defeat. However, the recovery of national strength often leads to two consequences: one is to implement the policy of enriching the country and strengthening the army and expand externally, as a result, the people are tired and the people's strength is exhausted, and the country's fortunes turn from prosperity to decline; The second is to induce politics, leading to the differentiation of the rich and the poor in society, and the people at the bottom have no way to make a living, and finally rise up.

Today's Song Dynasty has also come to this critical point, caught in internal and external troubles, if you want to recover the decline, reverse the political situation, you need a revolution, a big revolution, Zhao Ta knows that he can't launch such a revolution with his current ability, and once it is too radical, it will completely destroy the crumbling building, I am afraid that it is impossible to even favor Jiangnan in the future. But Zhao Tan didn't want to wait for that day to come without doing anything, and the northwest happened to be a good test site, and Xuanfu made this position and the identity of the prince just meet the needs.

In the long-term development of the Song Dynasty, the system of Xuanfu envoys was formed, and the establishment of increasingly frequent, military, political, financial and other functions and powers was increasingly expanded, the official qualifications of the incumbents tended to decline, the jurisdictions were fixed, the number of subordinate officials increased, and the civil ministers were the main and the military ministers were the deputies.

Local institutions and officials at the road, prefecture, and county levels were all under the command of the ambassadors, and could be recruited into the shogunate to participate in military and political affairs. Due to the similarity of the functions of the Propaganda and Pacification Envoys and the Institutional Envoys, there are certain contradictions between the Propaganda and Institutional Secretaries. But in general. The status of the Xuanfu envoy is higher than that of the system envoy. The status of the envoys is lower than that of the envoys, and they are controlled by the envoys and have the right to control the envoys. The competition for financial power can be appeased, so that the two divisions jointly handle the economic affairs under their jurisdiction, and the tiger skin of the prince can make him stand in an advantageous position in the competition.

Now that the conditions are basically in place, what Zhao Ta has to do is to find a way to enrich the country and strengthen the army, formulate a development policy and route for the next few years, and prepare to meet the coming storm. But all this was just a charge in his previous life, and it was really a sad thing to be in charge of a petty farm officer at most...

Fuguo, the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty. When he was unable to go on the Northern Expedition, Zhao Kuangyin set up a special institution called "Fengchun Library" to deal with the sixteen states of Yanyun occupied by the Khitan in the north, whose function was to store all the annual financial surpluses. It is not allowed to be diverted for other purposes, as a special fund for the recovery of Yanyun. Zhao Kuangyin himself personally grasped it, and was ready to save enough five million gold silk to redeem Youyun and Yun from Liao, and exchange money for land.

After making up his mind, Zhao Kuangyin exhausted all his methods to continuously deposit money in the Fengchun treasury, deliberately increasing the treasury's money reserves. His reason is very simple, the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun you occupy were originally the territory of my Zhao family, and the purpose of occupation was nothing more than to expand the source of wealth. Collect taxes from here and make a lot of money, well, I will give you a large sum of money now, which is enough to cover your income in the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun for several years, and I will exchange this money for the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, and you will not only save the energy of managing this area, but also get benefits, and I will also get back what is originally mine, and avoid the defeat caused by my military crusade. Wouldn't it be nice for both sides to be happy!

Even if the redemption fails, I can clearly remind you that this money is a lot, and if you don't agree to the plan of exchanging money for land, then I will take this large amount of money. Go recruit troops and expand your military strength. Then the military crusade against you, at that time, not only will you have to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, but also occupy your "Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun", and at that time, not only will you not get a penny, but you will also have no place to stay. This trick fully shows Zhao Kuangyin's understanding of the power of money. Because with money, I can regain and expand my territory, and as my territory expands, my power will also expand and increase, in the final analysis, it is money for power. …,

However, every inch of mountains and rivers is an inch of blood, and mountains and rivers can be exchanged for iron and blood, how can money buy it?! Creation and recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun was ultimately the unpaid ambition of Song Taizu and Taizong, with a developed economy and wealth accumulation, and did not directly improve military strength. However, because of the one-sided emphasis on civil rule and excessive restrictions on the power of the warriors, they adopted a passive attitude towards national defense, and in the end they could not reverse the fate of the Song Dynasty's military humiliation and defeat, resulting in a profound political and military disaster, bringing endless disasters and suffering to the country and the nation.

Subsequently, Shenzong re-carried the banner of enriching the country and strengthening the army, and accumulated a large amount of wealth through Wang Anshi's changes, and Song Shenzong saved a considerable part of it as special military expenses. During the reform period, he captured Xi, Hezhou and other prefectures, and recruited more than 300,000 Tubo tribes in the Hehuang area, and expanded more than 2,000 li, which was the most brilliant achievement in strengthening the army during the reign of Song Shenzong. During the Yuanfeng period, the Song court sent troops to attack Western Xia, and suffered a defeat in Yongle City, and the Song army was almost wiped out, and Shenzong's dream of enriching the country and strengthening the army was completely shattered.

Rich countries may not be able to strengthen the army, but can bring a stable life and rich material and spiritual wealth to the people, peace for the Song Dynasty accumulated a lot of wealth, become the richest era in history, even if the government finances often have deficits, but this does not mean that the income is beyond means. In addition to the government's revenue, the central government of the Song Dynasty also had the emperor's internal treasury revenue.

The revenue of the inner treasury can reach one-sixth of the government revenue, and it is not included in the government revenue, and the financial department has no right to intervene in its income and expenditure. After this part is included, there is no deficit problem in the Song Dynasty. When the government's finances were struggling to "make ends meet", the emperor "lent" the wealth in the treasury to the government to achieve a balance between revenue and expenditure. This was a means by which the emperor of the Song Dynasty controlled the government's finances, artificially creating the illusion of a fiscal deficit when the income exceeded the output, but in fact the government was not short of money.

The country is rich, but the soldiers are getting weaker and weaker, and the agreement with the Khitan State in the alliance made the successive emperors unable to feel the dignity of a great power; Even the Dangxiang clan of the Northwest Domain dared to call themselves Great Xia and fight against the Song Dynasty. What they thought in their hearts, even if they couldn't come to the dynasty as in the Tang Dynasty and have the glory of being respected as the "Heavenly Khan", at least they couldn't give up the mission of Taizu and Taizong to recover the lost territory and unify the territory, and at the same time, they also wanted to ensure the relative dominance of the Song Dynasty among the nations, but the reality was cruel, and the two failed to unify...

As a soldier, Zhao Ta has experienced modern reform and opening up, and of course understands that the prosperity and strength of the country comes from peace, and peace comes from the military strength with a relatively advantageous position and an active and efficient national defense policy. Although it is slightly unfair to understand it as a humiliating alliance under the city, the diplomatic results of the alliance were based on the premise that the Song army gained a relative advantage in the battle of Lanyuan. If the Song army was defeated in the Battle of Shanzhou, what awaited the Song Dynasty would be the destruction of the country, not a paper covenant, which may have been verified in the most brutal way in the later Battle of Song and Jin...

Now that Zhao Ji has ascended the throne and Cai Jing has come to power, he has been in charge of the government for more than ten years.

The main purpose of the new law presided over by Shenzong and Wang Anshi was to enrich the country and strengthen the army, and to benefit the people and facilitate the people. At that time, many people believed that Wang Anshi "wanted to save the people". Even Su Zhe, who has quite objections to the new law, admitted: "Jiefu can't bear the poor and is deeply ill and rich, and wants to break the rich to benefit the poor." The purpose of Zhao Ji and Cai Jing's implementation of the new law is to "seek envy for wealth and provide for extravagance". That is, to loot the people and serve the people's youth to meet the extremely debaucherous life needs of the emperor and his favored ministers. …,

Cai Jing and Wang Anshi not only have completely different personal qualities, but also have different policies, and the "new" law he promoted is not worthy of reform at all. Although Cai Jing dared to change the laws of his ancestors, when the reformers did not change them, the phenomenon of redundant officials and redundant soldiers was not solved, but became more serious, with nearly 50,000 officials supported by the state treasury and an army of one million, and the traditional national policy of strong cadres and weak branches should have been adjusted. For example, many old rules such as abandoning relatives not serving as military ministers, eunuchs not guarding secrets, and ruling should avoid suspicion of relatives, such as foreign relatives and prime ministers, brothers, and fathers and sons, emerged, and created the first situation of eunuchs interfering in politics; In order to whitewash the peace, Zhao Ji and Cai Jing have also implemented some charitable acts that seem to benefit the people and facilitate the people, such as Anjifang, nursing homes, and leaky gardens, but they often pay lip service to the truth.

Zhao Ji and Cai Jing focused on financial management and obtained a lot of wealth, but in addition to Zhao Ji's squandering, this amount of money and goods was embezzled by a large number of rats at all levels. As for its effect, people at the time commented: "The ancestral law benefits the people, the Xifeng law benefits the country, and the Chongguan law benefits the traitor." "The 'new' law introduced by the two is just a cover to exploit the people!

"Song is by no means dying from innovation, but dying from indiscriminate reform!" Zhao Ta rubbed his head and thought about it for three days in the bumpy carriage to come to this conclusion, and how to fight a 'blood road' in it and find a 'broad road' is really not an easy task! Zhao Ta weighed, pondered, wandered between the old and the new, he understood that if he did not change now, he would definitely face destruction, and how to change it, how to rejuvenate the Great Song Dynasty, how to realize the unification of a rich country and a strong army... To be continued.