The cold spring disaster has passed for the people of the Great Song Dynasty, since Zhao Zhen's southern suburbs sacrificed to the heavens and returned to the dynasty, the sun began to shine on the earth, when the sun rises and the moon sets, the frost and snow thaw and the spring flowers bloom, probably God miscalculated the time, this belated spring is extraordinarily warm.

The snow melts into an abundant stream of water, after the test of severe cold, after the recovery of all things even surpasses, planing the thick spring mud, the land seems to be able to pinch out a handful of oil! This is the happiest thing for the farmers.

The official family has been exempted from the summer tax, and in late spring, they can also step up the planting of a crop of grain, and they will be able to harvest one more season! The so-called misfortune and blessing rely on, and blessing and misfortune lurk.

The peasants are happy, even because they have suffered from the spring disaster, but the price of grain has risen all the way, even if there is a regular closing regulation of the court, it is only to suppress the price of grain at 500 wen per stone, but there is already a lot of oil and water to be earned.

It's just that under the influence of this spring disaster, the entire Great Song Dynasty has no surplus grain, even if it is a wealthy family with a lot of land, there is no surplus grain at home, so they can only wait for the imperial court to transfer grain from the South China Sea.

Everyone is the same in the face of natural disasters, but after natural disasters, it is different, farmers began to desperately grow grain in the hope of catching up with the last crop before the end of summer, and they could not say that they could move the summer tax exempted by the government into their own pockets.

Who doesn't want to be hoping to recoup some of their losses after this spring disaster?

Like the people, the officials in the court also thought so, to the greatest extent to recover the loss of the treasury, now the Great Song Dynasty treasury does not have much surplus, since the destruction of the Western Xia, the Great Song Dynasty has been taking out money.

First of all, the people of Ningxia moved inward, this cost can be called a huge amount, and then the official family rewarded the three armies with the wealth of the treasury, which is a large amount of expenditure, who knows that disasters have happened one after another, originally thought that they could get money from Xixia to compensate for the shortfall, who knew that the post went in more than earned, no, did not earn a penny from Ningxia at all!

This calculation, the loss of the Great Song Dynasty inside and outside is not one or two points, basically half of the surplus accumulated over the decades, not to know, when Bao Zheng, who is the third envoy, reported the figure of 60 million yuan, the entire court exploded.

60 million guan is already equivalent to the tax of the Zhenzong Dynasty for nearly a year! And it is still not before the reduction of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, but this can also see the strength of the economy of the Great Song Dynasty, many courtiers did not expect it, they thought that the current treasury was only a little better than the Zhenzong Dynasty, but they did not expect it to be so much better.

Bao Zheng was not disturbed by the buzzing discussion between the DPRK and China, but continued: "Your Majesty, a large number of businessmen rushed to Ningxia in a vain attempt to enter the Western Regions through Ningxia and reopen the ancient Silk Road, but a spring disaster caused them to lose a lot on the road, and many businessmen were trapped in Xingqing Mansion and other places, can you send troops to open the road to escort them?" ”

With his words, the whole hall instantly quieted down, quiet and a little unspeakable, no one expected that Bao Zheng, a stubborn and conservative third envoy, could say such a thing, many courtiers objected, and the reason for the opposition was that the imperial court could not surrender its identity to send troops for merchants.

Bao Zheng heard these nonsense and sneered a little again: "Your Majesty, I have so many taxes in the Great Song Dynasty, it is the work of many merchants, annual tariffs, commercial taxes, tens of millions of yuan, is a huge talent, how can you miss it?!" ”

Zhao Zhen sat on the throne and smiled slightly, what Bao Zheng said about tens of millions of guan are polite, it should be tens of millions of guan, Bao Zheng obviously has reservations, but even so, the opposition of the DPRK and China gradually decreases, who dares to object? Who can't get along with money?

More importantly, the Great Song Dynasty also had to get taxes from these merchants, Zhao Zhen looked at the courtiers in front of him with embarrassed expressions and said: "In this way, the soldiers of Ningxia Road will be sent to escort the merchants and Jia to enter the Western Regions, take care of them along the way, and do not plunder." ”

Zhao Zhen's words meant the policy of the imperial court, Pang Ji went out of class, and led all the courtiers to bow down and respond: "Your Majesty's will!" ”

The next thing is for the officials of the various ministries to report on the situation in various places, and how to support the affected people, these are all necessary, Zhao Zhen listened to the courtiers' reports in detail, and opened his mouth from time to time to correct one or two.

From their reports, it can be seen that the biggest blow to the Great Song Dynasty was not on the people, but on the economy, the spring disaster led to the rise of grain prices, and also led to a more or less increase in prices.

After the imperial court exempted the summer tax, the disaster situation was greatly improved, and the enthusiasm of the peasants was greatly improved.

Zhao Zhen nodded slightly, it seems that it is indeed the right choice for him to exempt the summer tax.

Just when the court meeting was about to end, one of the inner divisions of the Sifang Pavilion sent someone to come, and the inner attendant was numb in his legs under the gaze of a group of courtiers, and after entering the main hall, he walked slowly, and bowed down to the center of the main hall: "Your Majesty, the envoy of the Liao Dynasty, Yelujia, asks to see!" ”

Sure enough, Zhao Zhen had long expected that the Liao Dynasty was likely to send envoys to come, not necessarily to ask for help, but most of them would ask for mutual market to buy and sell grain, what is the most valuable after the spring disaster? Food, of course! Even if Yelujia was still waiting outside, Zhao Zhen knew what he was doing.

Zhao Zhen smiled and said to the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu: "Sure enough, it's still here, I'm afraid the Liao people won't be able to sit still!" Declare him in. ”

As if he had been pardoned, the servant bowed down again: "The slave obeys the order!" "For the chamberlain, the real horror is not the emperor, but the courtiers' eyes staring at them all the time, and the slightest mistake will be impeached by the courtiers.

And the official family will never protect the inner servants in this kind of matter, everyone says that the official family is benevolent, but the inner servants know that this is under the condition of not making mistakes......

Huanghuang Palace, Qianyu is the name, Yelujia stood outside the hall, speechless in his heart for a while, for so many years, he dislikes it more and more here, if it weren't for the dispatch of an envoy of the Liao Dynasty on his head, he would never step into the Great Song Dynasty Palace half a step, let alone get close to this glorious palace half a step!

This feeling is very complicated, firstly, because of fear, the fear of the gradual strength of the Great Song Dynasty, and secondly, this is an indescribable sourness, the sourness of the weakness of the Liao Dynasty compared with the strength of the Great Song Dynasty, there is also a trace of inferiority and envy in this sourness.

Whenever he reported the situation of the Great Song Dynasty to the Great Liao Emperor, what he got was always that simple reply: "Wait and see the changes in the Great Song Dynasty, don't let it move." ”

At first, Yelujia thought that the Son of Heaven of Daliao had some plan, or what strategy he had, but later he heard that every time he went to the top, the Son of Heaven always sneered and laughed at his incompetence......