When most people only see battlefield duels and battlefield confrontations, they often ignore the smoke behind the war, in fact, those economic-related events are quietly changing the direction of war. ,!

Economic warfare has a long history, and ancient wars interrupted the supply of the enemy's grain and other war materials, which was a form of economic warfare. In modern and modern warfare, economic warfare has received more attention. During the Second World War, the struggle between Britain, the United States, Germany, Italy, and other countries to maintain and destroy the Atlantic lines of communication, as well as each other's attacks on industrial production bases, had a great impact on the course of the war. By the end of the war, Japan and Germany, under the joint attack of the United States and Britain, had cut off their communications and almost completely lost their industrial base, resulting in the cutting off of industrial raw materials and the inability to start operating arsenals, which became an important reason for the defeat of the war.

The local wars after the Second World War were characterized by very obvious economic struggles, such as embargoes, economic blockades, and the severance of all economic exchanges with the enemy, such as trade, credit, finance, and science and technology; and, as far as possible, sever the economic ties of the enemy country with other countries and regions; Conclude treaties or agreements with neutral countries to prevent the neutral countries from exporting goods to enemy countries and obtain the necessary materials from neutral countries; In the international community, there are even more ways to rush to buy the materials that the enemy urgently needs, making it difficult to obtain their supplies, and so on, and I wonder how many countries have to succumb to the economic stick due to economic reasons.

Zhao Ta has also been trained in this area as a member of the special forces since that era, and has participated in some of these operations, such as conducting economic reconnaissance, collecting economic intelligence, and attacking important economic targets such as industrial and mining enterprises, military factories, scientific research institutions and economic centers in enemy countries; Destroying the enemy's railways, highways, tunnels, bridges, stations, ports, airports and other transportation facilities and vehicles, ships, airplanes and other means of transportation, until the use of force to directly seize the enemy's raw material production areas, resources and economic centers, so as to achieve the effect of destroying the enemy's economic lifeline. Therefore, when Zhao Ta continued to grow his military strength, he still did not forget to strengthen his economic strength, and then weakened the enemy's economic strength.

He knew that the main purpose of economic warfare was twofold: first, to weaken the opponent's economic base, delay its economic development, and hit its economic supply; Second, it is necessary to protect one's own economy, accelerate mobilization and development of one's own economy, and ensure the supply of materials for the armed forces. Its fundamental purpose is to cause economic panic to the enemy, shake the material basis for waging war, and collapse the enemy's economy so that the war can be won.

Therefore, at the beginning of building his own economic kingdom, Zhao Ta built a production system that combined military and civilian, peacetime and wartime, and established the necessary strategic material reserve strategy, especially the reserve of resources and raw materials needed for military production and war. An important purpose of sending troops to the northwest is to obtain a large number of high-quality war horses and control the mineral resources of the northwest. The active development of agriculture and the opening of new trade routes are aimed at increasing the economic potential of the strategic rear to support the war and thus strengthening its own economic blockade against the possible future war, and the probability of this is simply 100% judging by the trajectory of historical development.

It is said that as one of the three paths, he holds great power. Zhao should be able to mobilize huge economic resources. But things are not so simple, he can use the government's money is very limited, and it is not something that he can personally say. Because not only Zhao Ta, a guest from later generations, but also the ancients who went back a thousand years, also knew that it was impossible to do great things without money. Many revolutions and reforms in history have also been caused by a lack of money, and only a sound and stable financial system can provide sufficient and continuous power.

It is precisely because everyone knows the truth that 'money is king' that Taizu adopted the financial power of the local government and pinched the economic lifeline in his own hands, so that the local power could not be expanded. It was difficult to commit rebellion, and it became a national policy that has been passed down for thousands of years, and it is still used today. All taxes must be handed over to the central treasury in a unified manner, and then allocated by the government as needed, so that the finances of the various yamen are very tight, and most of the money is used as capitation fees, and the rest is just a little soup and water. So there is an official who does not repair the government, and the guest does not repair the shop' just said!

Although this proverb was popular in the Ming Dynasty, it was already in the Song Dynasty, which means that travelers do not have to help the owner of the hotel repair the hotel, but under the Liuguan system. As an official for three years, he is also a hurried passerby, and there is no need to repair the office. In fact, this is just a folk saying, in essence. "Officials do not repair the government" is determined by their authority, and it is not something that you can fix if you want to.

When the new yamen is built, special taxes can be levied. There is a special funding. However, the potential danger of this is to give the superiors the impression of "extravagance" and reduce the state's sacred fiscal revenue, which will affect the evaluation of political performance.

Of course, it is also possible to levy special taxes in the local area, and the result of this will be the enemy of the local gentry and rich people. The construction of the yamen did not have any practical benefits for the gentlemen and rich people. If you offend gentlemen and rich people, the 'public opinion' manipulated by local gentlemen will be unfavorable to the state and county officials, and will eventually affect the career of the state and county officials. Another solution to the maintenance costs is that the state and county officials take out some of their own "bad rules" income that is not included in the official accounts for maintenance expenses, but the money that can be stuffed into their own pockets is used for office work, and what a painful thing it is.

This year, in order to solve the problem of food shortage in the northwest, he asked the government for instructions, and his father agreed, so he was able to use the salt tax to raise grain to help the people. In order to attract salt merchants from all over the country, he set a low tax rate of five wen per catty, so that the government can receive about the same amount of money for each salt introduction, which seems to be several times lower than the six yuan per import of the Ministry of Salt in the past, but it also collects a salt tax of 500,000 yuan, which is 500,000 stone grain, which is enough for the northwest to last until the autumn harvest of the next year.

A tax of 50,000 yuan per catty of salt can save the people from starvation, and the retail price of salt at this time is 120 yuan per catty, and the cost of production is only about 10 yuan. Sheng Rentang controlled most of the salt ponds in Yanzhou, and it is conceivable how much profit he made from it, but this was the result of just resuming production and not reaching the peak of production. Once the sales channels of Western Xia, Tubo and the Western Regions were opened, even with the consumption of these regions, Zhao Ta would be able to rely on this golden egg-laying hen to maintain huge military expenditures without fear of anyone's economic blockade, and affect the surrounding economic situation, and influence the development of the situation.

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