Zhao Shu stood on the tower of the palace and looked at the battle on the outskirts of the city, with a trace of depression on his face, for more than ten years, he had exhausted countless means, just wanted to make this country strong, but there were always some people who did something rebellious for their own interests. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the world of the family and the country, the scholars of this era pay more attention to the interests of the family, which is understandable, but for the sake of the interests of the family, these scholars will even harm the interests of the country.

"Your Majesty, but sigh at these Confucian people, why do you repeatedly do some rebellious things?" A light and elegant voice slowly came from behind, and the smile on his face bloomed, like a white lotus.

"Huh?" Zhao Shu retracted his gaze from a distance, looked back, and saw a woman in white slowly coming from a distance.

Facing Zhao Shu's surprise, the woman slowly bowed and said, "The concubine has a lotus body, and she was named the western concubine by His Majesty." ”

"Oh, you are the Lotus Princess of Western Xia, your cultivation is good, and you are about to enter the realm of ghosts and immortals. Zhao Shu looked at the princess in front of him and smiled lightly, and the lotus princess stepped forward with a smile and said: "The concubine has only barely cultivated to such a realm since she was a child, I heard that Your Majesty is a cultivation genius, in just a few decades, the cultivation of civil and martial arts is already the realm of creation." ”

Princess Lotus stepped forward with a smile, but with a little resentment in her eyes, she stepped forward and gently grabbed Zhao Shu's hand, which made Zhao Shu subconsciously shrink, but she was held in the palm of Princess Lotus, and said with a bit of grief in her words: "The concubine has been a concubine for several months, and His Majesty has been busy these days, and the concubine body does not want to disturb. ”

"Concubine Xi, you are in Western Xia, I don't know what you have to say about Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty?" Zhao Shu smiled lightly, and reached out to grab Princess Lotus's little hand, which made Princess Lotus who was bold just now a little shy.

She was originally a bright princess of the Western Xia, never close to a man in her life, just wanted to practice to become an immortal, these months, her heart is also worried, her mind has also been slightly affected, and now with the defeat of the Jurchens in the Great Song Dynasty, Yue Fei is in Guanzhong Chen Bing, eyeing the Western Xia, for this reason, the Western Xia sent people to ask whether he is favored in the palace, affecting Zhao Shu's national policy of the Western Xia.

But for several months, she hadn't even seen Zhao Shu's face, how to talk about being favored, but now she mustered up the courage, but Zhao Shu held her palm, and a strange feeling stirred in her heart.

Zhao Shu held this small hand, faced the wind, pulled it on the edge of the city wall, looked at Yan Jing below and asked with a smile.

Princess Lotus looked down, thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, the Western Xia established the country by force, the people are fierce, the Great Song Dynasty has always been extremely weak, but since His Majesty ascended the throne, the Great Song Dynasty's armed forces are also strong, and they have defeated the Western Xia and Jurchen, and the Great Song Dynasty is afraid that it will restore the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties." ”

When Zhao Shu heard this, he also smiled lightly, and turned to look at the lotus princess beside him: "Is the Han and Tang Dynasty prosperous? It's still early!"

Hearing Zhao Shu's words, Princess Lotus no longer said these things, but just held Zhao Shu's hand, hesitated for a long time and said: "Your Majesty, the concubine has prepared some Western Xia style food for Your Majesty in Linlang Palace tonight, if Your Highness has time, you can come and taste it." ”

After Princess Lotus said this, her face suddenly turned red, revealing a little shyness, which made Zhao Shu laugh: "I will go!"

"The concubine is waiting for Your Majesty. Princess Lotus bowed and slowly left with the maids around her.

When Princess Lotus left, Zhao Shu said to the guards beside him: "The generals who are responsible for guarding the periphery will be punished with thirty boards, and then put them in the Acropolis as guards, and if the guards dare to let people in in the future, they will all be beheaded." ”

After Zhao Shu said coldly, he turned around and left, waiting for the results of the peace talks, and the whole scene of the peace talks became more and more solemn, the Jurchen envoy's face was full of anger, grief and anger with humiliation, but he had to sign a contract at the peace talks.

When the contract was signed, Jiang Kui and the others came to the palace with a happy expression.

"Your Majesty, Wanyan Heda has signed a contract, but if you want to successfully complete these agreements, you must also be forced by a large army, so as not to cause regeneration of turmoil in the Jurchen country. After Jiang Kuiyu finished reporting, Zhao Shu smiled and said: "Yes, the Jurchens should now think about how to govern the country and how to digest the gains from the attack on Liao." But you also have to find some way to draw blood from the Jurchens to strengthen the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"Your Majesty and relieved, we are ready to set up a household registration system, strictly check the contacts between the Jurchens and the Great Song Dynasty, and those who have been educated by the Great Song Dynasty, recognized the etiquette of the Great Song Dynasty, and cultural people will gradually be introduced to the Great Song Dynasty, in addition, the Great Wall will be rebuilt, and military towns will be set up along the Great Wall. ”

Jiang Kui reported it, and Zhao Shu said with a smile: "Send Zong Ze to Chengde to replace Han Shizhong, and let Li Gang be responsible for repairing the Great Wall and establishing a military town. Then build twelve acropolises around Yanjing. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Shu said to Mo Yangzi of the Ministry of Heavenly Works on the side: "Mo Yangzi, the Ministry of Heavenly Works has found a way to build bridges on the Yellow River, Huai River and Yangtze River, and at the same time build a gallop road. As for manpower, I will let Han Shizhong and Wu Jie capture the barbarians from the north. Local governments try not to harass the people. ”

"According to His Majesty's orders, we have come up with a number of plans, and we have begun to lay the foundations in the places where the water of the rivers has eased, and the agency people are also combing the leylines in various places. Mo Yangzi respectfully reported, and Zhao Shu's expression showed a look of satisfaction.

He has carried out reforms in various places, the gentry paid grain as a whole, and at the same time killed the big families with bad intentions back then, divided the acres of land in the hands of these big clans to the people, split the box army, no longer set up the box army system, and at the same time set up military towns in various places, implemented the recruitment system, and solved the redundant army system.

As for the appearance of redundant officials, Zhao Shu set up a lot of new departments, with the occupation of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, Dali and Jiaozhi, a large number of officials scattered to the three places, not only solved the phenomenon of redundant officials, but also once appeared a shortage of officials.

Now that the matter of paying tribute to the Western Xia and Da Liao has been solved, a large number of New Year's coins can be obtained from the Western Xia and Dajin every year, and the phenomenon of redundancy has been curbed to a certain extent.

Zhao Shu now wants to revitalize the commerce of the Great Song Dynasty, open up trade routes overseas, accelerate the circulation of goods from the north to the south and the east and west, and urge the government to have more money and grain to build galloping roads and bridges, so as to completely activate the wealth of the entire Great Song Dynasty.

So at this time, Zhao Shu didn't have the heart to provoke a fight, otherwise he would be desperate.

With the end of the war, Zhao Shu and his ministers had to conceive a blueprint for the construction of the future Great Song Dynasty, and even began to think about how to encroach on Western Xia step by step. (To be continued.) )