Chapter 234 There is no way to eliminate this dilemma

"Your Majesty, Xuzhou Secret."

Xie Daoqing interrupted the conversation between Zhao and Ju and Jeken Skye again, this time Zhao and Ju sighed and said to Jaken Skye with a little apology: "Your envoy, please go back to the embassy first, I have state affairs that need to be dealt with." ”

Xuzhou secret music was reported by Zhao Zi, first for his trespass on the border of the Jin State and hurt people, but Zhao and Ju did not look at the article of this guilt, Mo said that the territory of the Jin State is no different from the territory of the Song State in the eyes of Zhao and Ju, that is, the rest of the country, why not?

Although he was not so domineering as he did in a certain country when he crossed over, that his soldiers in flowered pants had the right to protect "human rights" in any corner of the earth, he did not abuse himself and was able to enter the land of another country once in a while for his loyal and brave soldiers. He focused on the next content, Zhao Ziyue said in the recital that he would buy the border generals of the Jin State, transfer the fugitive population of the Jin State, and ask Zhao Heju for authorization.

In addition, Zhao Ziyue also said that the people of the Jin Kingdom fled into a common fashion, which is enough to prove that the Jin Emperor Wanyan Shouxu's imitation of the changes implemented by the Great Song Dynasty did not have much effect, and the shock caused by the steam ship to Bianliang also proves that the people of the Jin Kingdom are panicked and will fall at the touch of a button.

The implication of his words was that he thought that the time had come to cut gold, and Zhao Youju shook his head when he saw this.

Although after the victory in Taizhuang, the call for the Northern Expedition rose again, but most of them still stayed on the lips of the Guozi eunuchs, and the citizens of Lin'an pretended to be deaf and dumb about it. The citizens and yeoman farmers are worried that although the Son of Heaven promised never to increase the endowment, it has always been a habit for the government to speak and not count, and after the Central Plains was conquered, millions of nearly 10 million remnants of the Central Plains needed relief, and the money and grain of this relief were naturally borne by the people. The bureaucrats and scholars are not only worried about the addition of endowments - because this matter has little impact on them, they are worried that if the prestige of today's son has made the Great Song Dynasty out of balance, the Son of Heaven and the scholars rule the world together This side of the Son of Heaven is too heavy, and the scholars have already appeared light, if the Son of Heaven recovers the Central Plains again, the prestige is far greater than that of Taizu Taizong, and the Han Wu and Tang Sects are even outstanding, then the imperial power will definitely swell to the point of uncontrollable. These scholars will not be able to maintain even the balance they are barely holding on.

Therefore, although the forces from Liuqiu were very interested in the mines, population, and land of the Central Plains, Zhao and Ju were still reluctant to go on a northern expedition.

Moreover, at this time, the Northern Expedition, the scholars and the old army would not support it, and could only use the troops and financial resources of Liuqiu, and after the victory, the strength of Liuqiu would be exhausted, and the Central Plains would be so rotten that they would not be able to do anything at that time, and at that time Zhao and Ju would have no strength to compete with these old forces, let alone the strength to rebuild the Central Plains, and the result would inevitably be that the bureaucrats and doctors in the court and the central government would be cheaper.

Hit a place, eat a place, and hit another place, this is Zhao and Ju's strategy. In his opinion, Jingdong and Huaibei are now a role model, and in another two years, Liuqiu will almost digest these two territories, and he can naturally go to Hebei and Shanxi, and finally it will be the turn of the Central Plains.

Now there are nearly one million households and three million people in Jingdong and Huaibei, and the strength of Liuqiu can digest and transform them, and after digestion, with these three million manpower, they can digest and transform the rest of the tens of millions of people.

"What does Cui Qing think after reading it?" Handing over the secret music to Cui He, Zhao Youju closed his eyes and thought for a while, and asked after estimating that Cui He had almost finished reading. Cui is different from ordinary scholars, although their fundamental interests are still the same, but this old man's vision is still there, and he can see farther.

"This Deputy Zhao is a little more anxious." Cui slipped with the old traitorous ministers, Zhao Zi said that he didn't know what he meant, he just said lightly, and he refused to comment more, but talked about the strategy of dealing with the fugitives of the Jin State: "Your Majesty, the Jin State has fled so many people, how can its monarchs and ministers not know the reason, and please ask Your Majesty to order the Huaibei Governor, the Guards, and the Loyal Guards to be on guard, so as not to jump over the wall in a hurry." ”

Zhao and Ju Qi said: "Cui Qing thinks that the monarchs and ministers of the Jin Kingdom will be in a hurry? ”

"Although the Jin country is called changing the law, in fact, its country cannot be changed, the country is narrow, there are few officials and many soldiers, no matter how you change the law, you can't change the overall situation." Cui He cheered up: "Your Majesty, this situation is not humanly solvable, and the Jurchen nobles are so numerous, when Menghu invaded the south, they fled to the Central Plains, and they all had to be supported by the people; The gold lord Wanyan Shouxu is called Mingjun, and he also wants to cheer up, and has issued many edicts to be thrifty, but he thinks that the palace room in Bianjing is narrow, and he does not care about the people's power and first camps the palace; The Jin State fought for years and raised millions of soldiers, including 400,000 soldiers who did not plough or harvest; And after several years of famine, although the owner of the money issued an edict for relief, there was no grain of rice in the official treasury to adjust......"

Cui talked endlessly about the disadvantages of Jin Guo, and he said it almost in one breath, obviously thinking about it a lot on weekdays. He was really right, after Menghu was defeated by the Great Song Dynasty, Jin Guo seemed to take a breath, and even recovered a lot of old places, revealing a "Zhongxing" appearance. But in fact, the Jin Kingdom only changed from "sudden death" to "slow death", and their current crisis is quite similar to the appearance of the Great Song Dynasty when they were struggling to defend Xiangyang in the original history. Moreover, what is even more bleak than the Great Song Dynasty in that history is that it is far from each other in terms of territory and population.

In this case, Mo said that Yan Shouxu was only known as the British Lord, even if he was also possessed by the traverser, there was no cure at all.

"Qing has been thinking about it for a long time, in Yiqing's opinion, this thing of sheltering the fugitives from the Jin Kingdom is still not done?"

"Naturally, in the alliance between my Great Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, there is no clause to deal with the fugitives of the other party, and there is, this covenant is signed by people and changed by people." Cui He smiled and said, "Your Majesty is waiting for the old minister's words." ”

Zhao and Ju smiled heartily with him, and the fate of Jin Guo was decided between the two of them.

Political peace, military deterrence, and economic coercion were the tactics of the Jin State, and politically Zhao and Ju decided to continue to maintain the current friendly relations with the Jin State for the time being, and he needed to have an external threat as a bargaining chip when dealing with the internal forces of the Great Song Dynasty; Militarily, the country did not dare to easily start a border provocation with the Great Song Dynasty, so in addition to bribing the border generals of the Jin State, Zhao Youju also instructed Qin Dashi to invite more Jin generals to visit the military school exercises of the Great Song Dynasty, don't be afraid of being learned by him, with the current financial resources of the Jin State, even if you learn, it is impossible to maintain enough nutrition for training like the Guards and the Loyal Guards, and show the combat strength of the Guards and the Loyal Guards in front of the border generals and envoys of the Jin Kingdom, which is enough to make the Jin Kingdom dispel the luck mentality. did not dare to be angry with the Song State when negotiating with the Song State; Economic coercion is the most important thing, one is to dump a large number of products into the Jin country through technological advantages, destroying the small peasant economy of the Jin country, the second is to absorb the labor force of the Jin country through the "Liuniang Road", and the third is to make the Jin country economically dependent on the Great Song Dynasty through the grain export of the Jin country, so that the Jin country can be directly included in the sphere of influence directly controlled by Zhao and Ju in the future.

"This sheep is also the strategy to destroy Wu." After discussing the details in detail, Cui He sighed and said, "Your Majesty is far-sighted, and he is really the master of heaven. ”

"Cui Qing looks at me again, if you want something, just say it, don't mess around." Zhao and Ju raised their faces and did not give him face at all.

Cui He was slightly embarrassed: "In the heart of His Majesty, it is so unbearable?" ”

"I don't praise me easily, but if there is praise, there must be a need." Zhao Youju looked at him vigilantly: "It's not that I'm suspicious, it's really Qing's previous bad deeds!" ”

"Your Majesty said this, if the minister doesn't ask Your Majesty for something, won't he bear this infamy in vain?" Cui He twisted his beard and thought for a while: "Your Majesty, if the books sent by that big cannibal are translated, can you send a set to the ministers?" ”

"You haven't written anything yet, you should remember it first!" Zhao Heju was stunned for a moment and then laughed: "When the time comes, I will make a photocopy, and every academy in the Great Song Dynasty will put a set in the academy, so what's the harm in giving you a set!" ”

"In this way, the minister will thank Your Majesty for your generous gift." Cui He pursed his mouth: "The minister has always spent money when he has it, and he may not have this money to buy a set at that time, and this set will all add up, and it will have to be a few hundred yuan, and he should be paid a month's salary." ”

"Don't cry for me to be poor, the dynasty treats the prime minister well, it has always been rare, you have three hundred yuan a month, that is really earned, and I don't have a penny of salary!" Zhao and Ju Dao.

"If Your Majesty wants a salary, it is not difficult, you only need to take out the money from the inner treasury, and the minister dares to guarantee it, and Wei Liaoweng will happily pay your Majesty's salary." Choi joked with him.

Zhao and Ju laughed, what Cui said with him has always been half-truths and half-truths, he, an old fox, when he speaks seriously, it is very likely that he is just saying something that does not matter at all, and when he is smiling and smiling as if nothing happened, it is very likely that he is telling the truth.

Like Fang Cai's sentence, nine times out of ten is his sincere words, Zhao and Junei have too much money, so much that even he himself tries to spend it, when he is in his hands, of course, he will use this money as much as possible where it is most needed, but it may not be in the hands of the monarch. Moreover, the country is in ruins, and there are many places to spend money, Cui Hehe, Wei Liaoweng and others are all eager for the money bag to be firmly in the hands of the scholars, so that there is another sharp weapon that can balance the Son of Heaven.

Zhao and Ju were able to surpass the scholars and become one of the most powerful emperors in this dynasty.

"Cui Qing, I will go to Taixue in some time to see what Taixue still lacks." Zhao Youju said: "I will go to Weifu and tell Cui Qing first, so that others will not be alarmed." ”

"The official family is an old man, and he doesn't really hear it, if he changes someone else, it's strange if he doesn't admonish him immediately!" Cui joked with him again: "The white dragon fish suit, although the folk saying is praised, but the body of the emperor and the son of heaven is also related to the fortune of the country, and Your Majesty must be cautious." ”

"I'll be careful." Zhao Youju shook his head: "These students have too much energy, I ordered them to go to the countryside to collect style, only one or two of the ten people are willing to go, stay in the Lin'an restaurant to eat, drink and fight, but it is getting more and more powerful, I want to punish them!" ”

"It's not Your Majesty's fault." Cui He slandered in his heart, but he didn't say it.

Zhao and Ju said that the students ate and drank and fought, which happened a few days ago, two groups of students who were good at speaking out had a conflict in the restaurant, this time it was not a group of heroes, and it was not as good as Huo Chongcheng, but they were sent to the officials, and they were all disgraced. This made Zhao Youju very unhappy, he hoped that these students would be more bloody than bloody, and act more instead of committing more murder.

"Qing has no other objections, then this matter is said so, in the future, if an official says that I am, Qing has to come forward to replace me next." Zhao Youju didn't care what he thought in his heart, and said a little scoundrelly: "If there is nothing else, Qing Ke will retreat." ”

"The minister originally wanted to enter the palace to meet the prince and princess, but when he heard that the official family had arrived at this Tianzhang Pavilion, he followed, and now he wants to go with His Majesty to pay homage to the prince and princess." Choi said with a smile.

"You old man, every time the princess sees you, she has to pull your beard, and you are still happy to do it!" Speaking of their two children, Zhao and Ju were obviously much happier.

The two went to the palace without mentioning it, and Jakensky returned to the pavilion, and along the way, the promise made to him by the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty was still haunted in his ears, making him fascinated and unable to extricate himself.

He knew what kind of price those gorgeous silks of the Great Song Dynasty could sell for Da Shi and even more distant Europe, and he also knew what kind of benefits he could get if he really controlled the export rights of Da Shi for three years. He didn't have to go back to the Great Eclipse to get his fellow countrymen and peers to step on his threshold.

The news made him so excited that he couldn't sleep, and after a long toss, he got up again, lit the lantern, and lifted the pen—he suddenly realized that, except for the slightest thing, the lantern, the pen, and many other products of the Great Song Dynasty could be trafficked to the Great Food and Europe, and he would certainly make a lot of money.

But what's the use of making so much money, now the city of Baghdad is under the threat of Menghu, and when he comes, he is already in danger, and when he returns, he doesn't know if the city of Baghdad has been breached!

"Go back and ship a boat...... Two boats of books came, and then stayed in the Great Song Dynasty, and stayed in this Lin'an City, which is much more stable than going to the stormy Baghdad City! Jakensky secretly made up his mind.

After making up his mind, he began to record his experience today on paper, which is one of his habits, when he remembered what he saw and heard in the palace of the Great Song Dynasty, he wrote not without exaggeration: "This hall is large enough to accommodate thousands of people, magnificent and wealthy, in what I have seen, there is no one from its right, the roof tile is glazed, made of colorful colors, crystal like jade, under the sun, brilliant like the heavens." ”

"The emperor of the Song Kingdom, heroic and young, generous and virtuous, thirsty for knowledge, actually wanted to exchange the power of the three-year silk monopoly of the Song State for the collection of books in the universities and libraries of Baghdad.

"This country will be long-lasting, and its monarch's legacy will be passed on to a hundred generations."

Note 1: Wanyan Shouxu's repair of the palace in Bianliang is a historical fact.