However, in the sixteenth year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, the population of the Tang Dynasty was only 16 million, but the current population of the Northern Song Dynasty is close to 70 million, and it will soon reach 126 million.

In the past, the annual income of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty was only 30 million guan, but the annual income of the Northern Song Dynasty was more than 100 million guan, and the highest was 160 million guan, and the annual income of the Jin State reached 300 million guan.

The prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty only had 10,800 taels of silver a year, so a prime minister only had hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in his family, but they were all cleared and could not be cleared anymore, which was equivalent to an annual salary of 15 million in later generations.

And it is not normal for the officials who have been slaughtering for decades to save a few million taels of silver at home, so it is also not a matter for the privy council to take out a few million taels to buy a mirror.

Because the old man has been a privy envoy for more than ten years, and he has 300,000 soldiers and horses, and he falsely declares military expenses every year, and consumes most of the treasury silver, obviously six million taels is nothing at all.

Later generations only knew the Tang Dynasty, but they never knew that the Northern Song Dynasty was the most prosperous era, but it was militarily weak under the suppression of literature and martial arts.

And even the annual income of Bao Zhengduan County has 1,080 taels of silver, which is equivalent to an annual salary of 1.51 million in later generations, and the monthly income of one tael of silver can be said to be a surplus family, which is enough to feed a family.

It can be said that the people of the Northern Song Dynasty were rich, and all the officials were rich, but the treasury was empty, even if the annual income was more than 100 million taels of silver, some people in later generations might be shocked that the privy envoys of the Northern Song Dynasty would spend millions of taels of silver to buy mirrors, and that was because they did not know the wealth of the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the future, the so-called silver ticket Jiaozi can be said to be the world's earliest banknote, which was issued by the Empress Dowager Liu Mo.

Obviously, even if Cao Yu wants to buy the Imperial City Division, he still doesn't take the Imperial City Division in his eyes, and his biggest opponent is Prime Minister Wang Yanqi.

Because the Imperial City Division is no more than 10,000 people at most, but I don't know that in just over half a month, the Imperial City Division has already recruited another 20,000 young people outside, but the Great Song Dynasty has never lacked people.

Especially for the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty at present, even if the monthly income of 500 yuan is low, it is enough to feed the family, and it can be said that the income is completely at the level of American soldiers in later generations.

And because of the shortage of money, only 20,000 people were recruited, and because the expansion was too fast, even the privy envoy Cao Yu and the prime minister Wang Yanying didn't know yet.

Even if the two of them knew about it, they could only watch when they restrained each other, because it was the Great Song Dynasty Imperial City Division that recruited troops, and it was not under the control of his privy envoy and prime minister at all, but directly under the Great Song Emperor.

And Zhao Zhi also set up a table of rising salaries, that is, after three months, the price will increase by 100 yuan, and it will rise again after half a year, and it will also rise after a year, giving the newly recruited Imperial City Guard a hope.

There is also the most critical problem, which was also stimulated by a letter from the Empress Dowager Liu Mo, Zhao Zhi thought about it at night and couldn't sleep, and it was obvious that the infrastructure construction of the imperial city was almost there.

But the ideological education has not yet begun, and it is obviously not enough to simply buy people's hearts and minds, so Zhao Zhi couldn't sleep at night thinking about excitement, so he "compiled" a military song for the imperial city guard and the future Great Song army!

Simply get up the next day and rest for a day, and only learn to sing the "military song" of the Great Song Dynasty, and the person who can write will write countless copies first, and then distribute them, and then sing them every day before eating.

As a result, the Empress Dowager Liu Moth went to court in the morning, and she hurried to deal with the music around noon, and finally squeezed out time to make snacks by herself in the afternoon.

When Guo Huai personally brought dim sum to the imperial city guards dozens of miles away, he heard the singing of tens of thousands of people from a distance, and he couldn't help but be shocked when he couldn't hear it clearly at first: "What is this Lord Zhao doing?" How did you make such a move? ’

But when he approached the Imperial City Guard, he heard the singing of tens of thousands of people one after another.

"The wolf smoke rises, and the rivers and mountains look north;

The dragon flag rolls, the horse neighses, and the sword aura is like frost!

The heart is like the water of the Yellow River, who can resist in 20 years?

Hatred, long knife to go! How many siblings are buried in their bones? What a pity to die to repay the family and country!

Endure the sigh, even more speechless, blood and tears!

The horse's hooves go south, and the people look north;

People look north, the grass is green and yellow, and the dust is flying;

I am willing to defend the land and reopen the territory, and the dignified Heavenly Empire will let the Quartet ...... Congratulations"

In an instant, even if Guo Huai was an old eunuch, he couldn't help but hear his blood boiling, his heart was stirring, his eyes were red, and the team of soldiers who came to the palace to guard the palace couldn't help but be enthusiastic.

But it is Zhao Zhi's plagiarized song "Loyal to the Country" in later generations, which never felt anything when I listened to it in later generations, but when it came to the Northern Song Dynasty of the Iron Horse Soldiers, whether it was singing or listening, it was extremely feeling.

Tens of thousands of people let go of their voices and roared, singing excitedly one by one, and everyone couldn't help but sing with red eyes.

Some people even roared and couldn't help but shed tears, and at the same time, Lord Zhao of the Imperial City Wei made some braised pork with his own hands, and the rich fragrance that he had never smelled made everyone sing more powerfully.

And over and over again.

"The wolf smoke rises, and the rivers and mountains look north;

The dragon flag rolls, the horse neighses, and the sword aura is like frost!

The heart is like the water of the Yellow River, who can resist in 20 years?

Hatred, long knife to go! How many siblings are buried in their bones? What a pity to die to repay the family and country!

……”

As a result, when he saw Zhao Zhi, Guo Huai couldn't help but stir in his heart, and cried a handful of snot and tears: "Lord Zhao, I have you in the Great Song Dynasty, and from now on I should be as stable as a rock, and no one dares to bully the people of the Great Song Dynasty."

The old slave is on behalf of the emperor, on behalf of the queen mother, and on behalf of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, kneel down and kowtow to you. ”

Zhao Zhi also didn't expect that he didn't want just one song to make tens of thousands of people feel like they had been beaten with chicken blood, and at the same time, he had copied out countless copies and divided them into 20,000 new troops outside, and divided them into four guards.

If there is a change in Bianjing City, the four guards of the Imperial City outside can arrive within half an hour, but it is more effective than anything to win people's hearts, and it resonates in the hearts of all martial artists.

Zhao Zhi also couldn't help but say happily: "Gonggong Guo, get up, I won't help you." It just so happens that I have prepared a few copies, and when you go back this time, you will copy them to the palace guards and ask them to sing them every day before eating. ”

Guo Huai couldn't help but get up excitedly and said: "Lord Zhao doesn't command, the old slave is also ready to ask Lord Zhao for a copy, and when the emperor and the queen mother see it, they will definitely like it."

Lord Zhao, this is the dim sum made by the Queen Mother for the emperor herself, and seeing that the emperor couldn't finish eating, she instructed the old slave to bring a copy to Lord Zhao as well. ”

While speaking, the old man's nose couldn't help but move, only to see that there were hundreds of cauldrons in front of him, and the so-called "braised pork" seemed to be boiling in the cauldron, which was called a fragrant.

Zhao Zhi instantly understood that the Empress Dowager Liu Mo made a lot of food for herself, and by the way, she brought it to the old brother to eat a little.

So he simply pretended not to know: "Then it will bother Grandpa Guo." It just so happened that I also made a braised pork with my own hands, and Guo's father-in-law helped bring it back for the emperor and the queen mother to taste.

I have commanded them to do the outside, and I have done it in the house. Father-in-law Guo came with me, brought the lyrics back by the way, and sang them to the Bianjing Forbidden Army from tomorrow.

These emperors and empress dowagers can't finish eating, and you can also taste the craftsmanship of the rest of Grandpa Guo. ”

Guo Huai immediately said excitedly again: "Old minion, thank you Lord Zhao." Lord Zhao's song can top millions of lions, and even the old slave can't help but be enthusiastic when he listens to it. ”

Zhao Zhi couldn't help but look forward to it in his heart, waiting for it to be passed into the 300,000 soldiers and horses used by Cao.