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Hearing Tong Guan ask for money, Zhao Ji's face immediately collapsed, and he said in his heart: "Why do you want money again, I don't have the money to build a garden, how can I have this money!" ”

The emperor was embarrassed, and someone shared his worries.

Who?

Cai You.

Because he successfully persuaded Li Yan to accept Zhao'an, Zhao Ji was overjoyed, and took Cai You as the opening of the palace and the three divisions, and his favor to Cai You was better than before, Cai You could even meet Zhao Ji at any time, and he could rest in the palace with Wang Huang.

And Cai You also told Zhao Ji from time to time about the meat jokes he heard from outside the palace, enriching Zhao Ji's boring spare time, and often said to Zhao Ji: "The so-called master of the people, when the four seas are his home, peace is entertainment, the years can be geometric, how can he work in vain." ”

Hearing Cai You's words, Zhao Ji intensified his efforts, collecting strange stones and rare birds and beasts all over the country to flood Shoushan Genyue.

It can be said that Cai You is definitely a good friend of Zhao Ji.

Since he is a good friend, at this time, how can he not stand up and support Zhao Ji?

Cai You jumped out and said: "Who doesn't know that there is a famine among the people in western Beijing this year, and there is a great drought in Huaidong, and the official family can't even send disaster relief money and food in the two places, how can there be money for you, besides, your Western Army has been fighting with Western Xia for many years, and you can't fight without money, how can you suppress bandits for the official family, so you desperately ask for money?" ”

Tong Guan really didn't want to deal with Cai You, a guy who can only eat, drink, have fun and shoot horses, but people like Cai You can be considered dead when they make salt and vinegar, so even if they are as powerful as Tong Guan, they can only patiently explain to Cai You: "The families of the Western Army are all in the west, if they don't fight hard with the Western Xia and are attacked by the Western Xia tiger and wolf, their families will have to be killed or taken away by the Western Xia, so even if the military sound is a little insufficient, they have to ......fight with the Western Xia."

Of course, things are not as simple as Tong Guan said.

In fact, not all the Western Army can't get the full amount of military sounds, Tong Guan's descendants can always get the full amount of military sounds, the reason is nothing more than that Tong Guan in the distribution of the insufficient military salary issued by the imperial court, to his descendants of the troops leaning greatly, and those who are not Tong Guan's descendant troops, then I'm sorry, it's not that I Tong Guan doesn't give you a military sound, but the court didn't send enough military sounds, plus Tong Guan made some empty air sounds, in short, Tong Guan's descendants can still get a full amount of military sounds, can also maintain peak combat power, which is also the main reason why Tong Guan has played well in the west in recent years.

But the bad thing is that this defeat of Liu Fa made most of Tong Guan's descendants lose in half, so that Tong Guan's control over the Western Army was greatly reduced.

Moreover, whether the battle was won or lost, the Western Army knew best.

Moreover, it is also clear within the Western Army that the defeat was caused by Tong Guan, or because of Liu Fa.

All in all, without sufficient military sounds, Tong Guan was really not sure to take the Western Army to pacify Tian Hu and Wang Qing.

Therefore, Tong Guan bowed to Zhao Ji and said: "Wechen is willing and confident to exterminate Tian Hu and Wang Qing for the official family, but there is no military sound, Wechen really can't explain to the brothers of the Western Army, and he is really afraid that the brothers of the Western Army will not understand the difficulties of the official family!" ”

As a courtier, Tong Guan can only talk to this extent, he can't say that the emperor is not a hungry soldier, right?

Cai You opened his mouth and wanted to say a few more words for Zhao Ji!

But Cai You really couldn't find an excuse to speak for Zhao Ji!

In the end, you can only close your open mouth again!

Zhao Ji was silent for a while, and then looked at Wang Huang.

Although Wang Hao is now appointed by Zhao Ji as a special entry and a young ruler (right prime minister), Zhao Ji, who used Wang Hao to manage the money bag, did not deprive Wang Hao of the responsibility of managing the money, so Wang Hao still helped Zhao Ji manage the money bag.

Seeing Zhao Ji's view, Wang Hao could only come out and say: "The official's family, in recent years, there has been either a major drought or a flood in various places, and the tax revenue is less than seventy percent of the harvest year, and the disaster area has to be relieved, and the household department really has no money, just as Lord Cai said, now the people in western Beijing are famine, and Huaidong is in drought, and the two places should have allocated money and grain for disaster relief a long time ago, but because the household department has no money, it has not been able to allocate disaster relief money and grain until now. ”

Zhao Ji actually knew very well what Wang Hao said, because last time Wang Hao pulled out the last money of the household department of 15 million yuan to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he had already explained to Zhao Ji that the household department had no money.

Zhao Ji frowned!

Suddenly seeing Cai Jing, Zhao Ji asked, "Is there a way for the Taishi?" ”

Cai Jing was silent for a while, and said, "The only way to do this is to enable the pile sealing warehouse." ”

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the gold silk collected by the separatist forces was collected to the Beijing Division, and another warehouse was placed for storage, called the sealing pile warehouse, and the annual surplus was also stored in this warehouse.

In the era of Zhao Kuangyin, "Taizu did not set up a sealed pile library, and tasted the secret and said to the close ministers: 'Shi Jin (Later Jin Shi Jingjiao) cut Youyan to bribe the Khitan, so that the people of one side were limited to the outside world, and I was very compassionate. If you want to make a deposit of three or five hundred thousand yuan in Siku, that is, send an envoy to make a covenant with the Khitan, and if you can return it to my land and people, you should use this gold silk to redeem its ransom value. If not, I will scatter the wealth and recruit warriors in an attempt to capture the ear. ’”

From Zhao Kuangyin's words, it is not difficult to see that Zhao Kuangyin is obsessed with the sixteen states of Yanyun.

Not only Zhao Kuangyin, but also the emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty all took the recovery of the sixteen states of Yanyun as their lifelong wish.

Some people may be puzzled, why is the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty so obsessed with the sixteen states of Yanyun?

It's really because the sixteen states of Yanyun are too important.

The terrain of the sixteen states of Yanyun is condescending, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the geostrategic value is huge.

(In the Ming Dynasty, the Great Wall was simply built here to block the nomads from the north.) ）

Hearing Cai Jing say that the pile sealing library was activated, Zhao Ji's head shook like a rattle, and said, "No! The ancestors have training, this pile library can only be used to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, although I have never filled the pile storage bank, but I can't take the money in the pile library to use, if so, what will I face in the future, the current ancestors and ancestors! ”

didn't want others to pull on the topic of sealing the pile library, Zhao Ji directly changed the topic and said: "Taishi, you seem to have said the Daimyo Mansion just now, what's wrong with the Daimyo Mansion?" ”

Cai Jing hesitated!

Now that Tian Hu and Wang Qing have rebelled, if Li Yan brings a large army to attack the Great Song Dynasty again, then the Great Song Dynasty will be dangerous!

Cai Jing is a traitor, greedy for his own use, in order to have power, in order to obtain Zhao Ji's favor, he doesn't even want Zaifu's bottom line, supports Zhao Ji's construction of civil labor, supports Zhao Ji's casting of Jiuding, Jianmingtang, repairing Fangze, establishing Taoist temples, doing "Da Shengle", formulating life treasures, etc., Cai Jing's guilt can be said to be too numerous to write.

But Cai Jing, who is the emperor of the dynasty, actually has the overall situation in his heart, and the most important thing is that Cai Jing is too smart and knows very well that there are no eggs under the nest.

To tell the truth, if Cai Jing had not supported Tong Guan to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, which led to the shame of Jingkang, and he was the ruler at the time, he would not have been able to become one of the six thieves.

You must know that Cai Jing has contributed to the Northern Song Dynasty and even to the entire Han people.

During the reign of Cai Jing, the implementation of the social assistance system was extremely rare in ancient history, and the implementation of the nursing home, Anjifang and Leaky Garden system was undoubtedly the peak of the development of the relief system in the Northern Song Dynasty, which was unprecedented in Chinese history, and even above the three dynasties of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

It was Cai Jing who made social relief activities large-scale and institutionalized.

During the Chongning period, Cai Jing presided over the "Chongning Xingxue", which was the first of the three Xingxue movements in the Northern Song Dynasty. The main measures include: the establishment of local schools throughout the country; Establish a three-level school system linked to county school, state school, and Taixue; New Biyong, the development of Taixue; The establishment of medicine was resumed, and specialized schools of arithmetic, calligraphy, and painting were established; Boycott the imperial examination and change it to the school to take the scholars. It is the concentrated embodiment of the policy of "revitalizing culture and education" in the Northern Song Dynasty, and has played a major role in the development of education in the Song Dynasty.

In short, Cai Jing is treacherous, but he is not incompetent.

Therefore, although he was eager to scatter Li Yan's bones to ashes, Cai Jing still said: "Today, there is Zhang Shanyu, the head of the Daimyo Mansion, and there are Erlong Mountain thieves Kou Chaogai and Song Jiang who attacked the Daimyo's Mansion, and Liang Shijie of Zhongshu died in battle......

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