Tomorrow will be the sixth year of Xuanhe. The new year is coming soon, but the Great Song Dynasty does not see the slightest sign of improvement.

Zhao Ji and the ministers were all worried.

Internal and external troubles not only did not show any signs of relief, but intensified.

The Emperor of the Jin Kingdom was killed, and this news once made Zhao Ji very excited. He knew that the founding emperors of the previous dynasties were not ordinary people, and almost every one of them was eloquent, otherwise it was not enough to create a new country.

But a father may not be a son. There is a powerful first generation, but there is often a weak and incompetent second generation. For example, Qin Shi Huang, his son is not very good!

Or Qin II would have died.

Zhao Ji's wishful thinking is that Jin Guo also died in the second generation. But he didn't expect that it was not Wanyan Aguta's son who took over the throne of Jin Guo, but his younger brother: Wanyan Wu Qimai.

This disappointed Zhao Ji. Isn't this like your own ancestor?

Zhao Kuangyin is gone, and Zhao Kuangyi is on the field.

You must know that Zhao Kuangyi is also a very good person. If Zhao Kuangyin's son had been replaced at that time, he might not have been as powerful as Zhao Kuangyi.

The new emperor of the Jin State is in the prime of life, and he has completely participated in the founding process of the Jin State, and can be said to be a very capable person.

So far, there has been no news of civil strife from the Jin side, and the Jin people have not made any concessions to the price of the Great Song Dynasty, that is, the money to buy the city.

Zhao Ji is worried! The city is to be bought. Only by buying back the sixteen states of Yanyun one by one can the northern frontier of the Great Song Dynasty become stable, otherwise Zhao Ji will not be able to sleep soundly.

But where does the money come from?

At the end of the fifth year of Xuanhe, Bianliang City declined unprecedentedly. Although it is the end of the year, it is said to be the most prosperous and lively time of the year, but today's capital is not as good as the ordinary days of previous years - too depressed.

It's no wonder that people don't spend money on things, they really don't have money in their pockets.

The price of grain has risen too high, and it is not just rising for a while, but since Zhao Ji bought the city, the price of grain has not fallen. And after the Heavenly Division Army occupied Jiangnan, the price of grain soared.

Ordinary people's homes even cut out the money hidden in the cracks in the walls to buy food, where is the money left to buy anything else.

The people have no money to spend, and the merchants in the city naturally have no income - Zhao Ji can't even collect business taxes.

As a result, all industries were depressed, and even Mahang Street was almost a bit deserted.

Barely a little popular, only Daxiangguo Temple remains. At this time, the business of Daxiangguo Temple is not easy to do, the limited edition of the golden hoop stick can not be sold at all, it is the ordinary version of the golden hoop stick, Zhiqing Zen Master is also discounted and discounted, only barely sold a dozen a day!

You must know that Bianliang has a population of nearly one million, and there are not a few children who like golden hoop sticks.

The sales of more than a dozen golden hoop sticks a day made Zen Master Zhiqing frowning - they were not enough to pay the craftsmen.

Faced with this situation, Zhao Ji could only pin his hopes on Gao Yu to defeat the Heavenly Master Army quickly and take Jiangnan.

However, Gao Yu was trapped in Runzhou City and couldn't move forward next. He couldn't get into Runzhou. Runzhou City has high walls and thick walls. Even if there are many people and horses, there are weapons like heavenly thunder, but the enemy not only has heavenly thunder, but also artillery.

The artillery is much farther than the thunder, and the power is also great, and it is very scary to be struck in a row.

However, both sides have gone through a period of *** war, and gradually accepted the casualties under *** battle, so both sides can still hold on.

The soldiers and horses of the imperial court have the Western army as the mainstay, and they will not collapse. Because of the Zhenwu Emperor and Shi Dangdang, the Heavenly Master Army occupies a technological advantage and is also guarded.

Every time the Song army mustered up the courage to kill the head of the city, it was crushed by Shi Dangdang's close-range fire.

The war has been fought for so long, and both sides are vain consumers living their days, losing lives. No one has taken a substantial step.

At this time, Gao Yu remembered Qin Mu's second plan. Since you can't break Runzhou City, it's better to go down the canal and fight somewhere else.

He again detached some troops and horses and headed south along the canal.

These soldiers and horses joined Han Shizhong in Changzhou and continued to attack Wuxi.

The defenders of Wuxi are quite sufficient, they also have thunder and artillery, and the key is that they still have food, so they can hold it completely.

It's just that in this way, Wuxi can't send troops to the south to fight Suzhou.

Qin Mu and his guards regiment, precisely because of this, were given a long period of security, and no one came to harass them.

Jiangnan really belongs to the imperial court, but Changzhou is a place. The grain in this place is simply not enough to solve the grain shortage in Bianliang, and even the grain in this place has not been transported across the Yangtze River.

The Song army in Runzhou still needs a lot of military rations. This army has always eaten the grain of Changzhou, and it is completely unable to support the capital.

For Zhao Ji, there is almost no good news this year, except for the good news that Wanyan Agu was killed. But he died, and Jin Guo was not finished. They were still as smelly and hard as the stones in the pit.

Zhao Ji's feelings about Jin Guo are eighty percent right, and the other two percent are somewhat wrong.

After all, Wanyan Wu begging is not Wanyan Aguba. He did not have the prestige of his brother. He sat in the position of the emperor of the Jin country, relying on the backward customs of the Jin country. The elder brother died, and everything he had went to the younger brother to inherit.

If the people of the Jin State are still Wanyan Ministry, and they are still slaves to the Liao State, such a thing is naturally not a matter. Anyway, they are all dogs for the Liao people, and there is no difference between Wanyan and Wu begging twice.

But now that the Wanyan Department has defeated the Liao State, and even captured the Liao Emperor Yelu Yanxi as a dog, they can be regarded as people with status!

Now that you have an identity, you can't be as levelless as before.

For the throne, some people in the Jin State already felt that they should learn from the previous way of great powers, such as the Liao State and the Song State, to inherit the business of the father and the son.

Don't look at the fact that we destroyed the Liao State, and the Song State is not very good, but the people have lasted for more than a hundred years, and that is an example that we must learn.

How to govern the country, Jin Guoren really has no experience.

Governing the country is not as simple as hunting in the mountains and catching fish in the rivers, it requires a complete set of systems. This insight is shared by the high-level leaders of the Golden State.

They don't have this system, and they need such a system, so they have to find countries to imitate it.

Whether it is the Liao State or the Song State, the throne is inherited by the father and the son.

In this way, Wanyan Aguta's sons have a huge conflict with Wanyan Aguta's younger brothers.

This contradiction involves fundamental interests and is certainly not so easy to resolve.

According to the historical process, the war between the Jin State and the Song State should have occurred in the seventh year of Xuanhe. Then it triggered Jing Kang's shame - it was the Jin soldiers who hit Bianliang, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, and captured the royal family members of the Song Dynasty alive one after another.

But because of Qin Mu's unexpected appearance, it was like a well-run program that introduced a variable that was out of scope, and the system went out of order.

In the past, the Jin Kingdom only sold hundreds of thousands of Youzhou, but now they unexpectedly obtained several million.

Suddenly, there was so much more money and materials, which led to the fact that the Jin State could digest and integrate the population and resources of the Liao State more quickly. The preparations for the war of the Jin State against the Song State were completed a year ahead of schedule.

And the various wonderful commodities that Qin Mu brought beyond time and space, such as the iron horse, the jeep that Wanyan Zong had seen, and the enjoyment of transcending time and space in Fan Lou, all aroused the greater greed of the people of the Jin Kingdom.

Now there are faint signs of infighting among the people of Jin Guo because of the succession to the throne. Wanyan Wu begging is not a waste, he decisively transferred the internal contradictions to the outside.

Let's stop arguing with our own people, let's go to fight Song Guo together and rob them of their good things.

This trick is to pass on the crisis, which is a common option in any dynasty.

After Yan Wu begged to buy without a teacher, he thought of it. If you think about it, you can do it, it's a harsh winter, and it's hard to move troops, but this is a good opportunity to make excuses.

Now Jin Guo is also a serious country, no longer a mountain villager, even if there is a war, you can't start fighting without saying a word, you always have to find a high-sounding excuse.

This excuse is easy to find.

The fourth prince, Jin Wushu, received the order of the new emperor of the Jin Kingdom and came to Bianliang City again, and he was going to find fault.

As soon as he entered Bianliang, Jin Wushu immediately felt a kind of desolation.

Why is Bianliang like this? Is this still a prosperous place in the world? Why are the common people like they haven't eaten for ten days?

Could it be that the Great Song Dynasty has become so weak?

Bianliang is the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, if Bianliang is like this, then what about the rest of the Great Song Dynasty? Isn't it all a general tragedy?

Most of the world in the Great Song Dynasty is so miserable. Thanks to Jiaozi and the impact of the war, food prices soared everywhere.

The only places that have not been affected are a limited number of places. Northwest and Weishan Lake, these Qin Mu's territories have not been affected, because the economy of these two places has basically been decoupled from the Great Song Dynasty.

Apart from the usual taxes and payments, there was almost no economic intercourse of all kinds.

Because the goods of Weishan Lake were sold in the Great Song Dynasty except for Bianliang, all of them were sold in their own banknotes, so that Zhao Ji could not take advantage of this huge economy.

In addition to these places, Taihu Lake and Suzhou, are another good place.

The current city of Suzhou does not belong to the imperial court, nor does it belong to the Heavenly Army. The only administrator of the city of Suzhou was the Guards Regiment.

The Guards Corps, on the other hand, did not raid the premises, on the contrary, they also provided food and jobs to the people.

This makes Suzhou a rare comfort nest in the world.

At the same time, the people of Suzhou found that there were more institutions in the city that they did not know anything about.

Cooperative. Various cooperatives have appeared in Suzhou City.

This is a new production and lifestyle designed by Qin Mu for the current situation.

Cooperatives are production cooperative organizations formed on the initiative of the people on the basis of their own volition.

Of course, any organization definitely needs a leader.

The person in charge of all cooperatives is a big beauty - Cai Jinhua, a former female bandit.

Now her name is naturally gone, and to the people of Suzhou, she is a little fish lady.

Cooperatives are a form of cooperative organization established by the working masses voluntarily uniting to carry out cooperative production and cooperative management.

The so-called cooperative economic organization first emphasizes "cooperation" and then "economic organization", which are two basic elements.

But cooperatives and corporations are different. The profit that the company pursues is the appreciation of capital. The cooperatives pursue the orderly progress of production and life.

This organization is not for profit. It is actually a small group of weak and weak who unite and help each other.

At this stage in front of him, Qin Mu can't occupy Suzhou for the time being, and he needs to open up the situation in Suzhou and Jiangnan to prepare for his own return in the future. So Qin Mu remembered the cooperatives of later generations.

Yu Miao was completely recruited by Jia Hongxian. She already listened to Jia Hongxian's words - she was much more obedient than Yu Liyan, she had been a bandit, and she had a group of female soldiers in her hands, which was where Jia Hongxian took a fancy to her.

In fact, this is exactly what Qin Mu values her. Qin Mu wanted to leave, but he needed to take a breath in Jiangnan. This breath, he put it in Taihu Lake.

Since there have always been bandits in Taihu Lake, it can be seen that neither the imperial court nor the Heavenly Master Army has the ability to pacify this place.

Qin Mu took Shen Junyi and Yu Miao as the team and established the Taihu Lake team.

This detachment is not subordinate to the Guards Regiment - the Guards Regiment will definitely not want bandits, this is just a title.

The Taihu Lake Team has three missions. The first is to make Taihu Lake independent from Jiangnan and become the foothold and sub-base of Qin Mu, and the second is to promote new production methods and commodity sales through the establishment of cooperatives, so as to improve the lives of the people in Jiangnan, and at the same time publicize the advanced nature of the Guards.

The third is to prepare for the establishment of the Jiangnan Shipyard - to make personnel and material preparations.

These three things need to be done well by Taihu Plains bandits like Shen Junyi and Yu Yaoyao.

Shen Junyi and Yu Miao were also a blessing in disguise, turning from bandits to basically becoming peripheral personnel of the New Century Group.

They don't know where their future lies yet, but if they know Lin Chong and the others, they should be able to understand it immediately.

Lin Chong's present is their future.