Ye Qingchen has money in his hands, but he doesn't dare to move at will, before the big scatter is the same, almost let the entire northern farmland water conservancy project be delayed, although the future is very good, as long as the entire northern farmland water conservancy project is completed, the entire northern resistance to natural disasters will be significantly improved.

This has a huge effect on the stability of a court, and the stability of a dynasty does not lie in how much grain it will produce in a good harvest year, but how much grain it will produce in a bad harvest or natural disaster.

The former produces excess, except for winemaking, it is difficult to do anything else, but the latter, once it is reduced to a certain extent, there will be a gap, when this gap increases, and there is a little problem in the social distribution system, when the rich occupy more and the ordinary people are less, the final result will inevitably be a war, or overthrow the entire imperial court, or, it is a great weakening of the central government.

Ye Qingchen did this, and even was exploited by these squires for the sake of construction, until he had Han Qi as a comparison, and then he did not do anything to them.

But now, with the lessons of now, he will not use all the funds on hand that can be liquidated, this is not made by a healthy government.

With these experiences, he is also a lot more careful, unless it is a plan that has been set before, otherwise, it must be re-studied by the three divisions before the grant will be granted, and if there is any doubt, it will be vetoed.

In this way, it is equivalent to having more means, but for the safety of property, it is much better, and some items that are obviously red eyes and increase consumption are directly cut by Ye Qingchen.

The financial balance of the Northern Song Dynasty was formed so simply, and even Ye Qingchen made a simple plan to let the three divisions sort out all the places that needed to be invested, and make a plan through priorities and other necessary expenditures.

This is the premise of a plan, and once it is made, it will improve the efficiency of the use of funds, but without sufficient efficiency, this is destined to be a rough plan.

Jia Chaochang knew that Ye Qingchen had a sum of money in his hands, but he didn't know exactly how much, but it should be enough for this outfit and armed operation.

However, in order to get enough funds, Jia Chaochang still applied in the form of a privy council.

These applications of the Privy Council were justified in strengthening the Hebei front and preventing it from being broken through by the Liao State.

Under the premise that the trouble in the northwest border was greatly reduced, the center of the entire Northern War returned to the Hebei front, and everyone knew that among the Three Kingdoms, when the Western Xia was completely destroyed, the Song-Liao dispute would inevitably become the focus, and even become more and more intense.

In the past, there was a Western Xia as a buffer, and even the Liao State would not come up directly, but instead relied on the indirect of the Western Xia, and now, everything has no buffer, and the territory of the Western Xia belongs to the Liao State, as long as there is any friction between the two sides, there will inevitably be a war, so if you want to ensure the security of the north, it is inevitable to strengthen.

It has been 3 years, and there has been no increase on the Hebei front, this reason is also legitimate, even if there is no plan, this money Ye Qingchen will allocate it.

Besides, the strength of the fortress lies in the fact that the cost of the fortress alone is not high, the cost of a fortress is only 2,000, and 250 is only 500,000.

Not to mention that this is compared with Hebei's before, even if it is compared with the northwest, it is nothing, Jia Chaochang just wrote in general terms to increase the strength of Hebei's city defense, and it was passed like this.

Similarly, the cost of changing the outfit of the 100,000 forbidden army is also not high, this change is only changed on the longbow, the cost of a longbow is 200 Wen, and the arrows are a little more expensive, and the cost of a set of longbow arrows, including 50 armor-piercing arrows, 50 heavy arrows, and 150 standard long arrows, is about 1.2 times.

It seems that the cost of arrows is at least 5 times higher than the cost of the arrows of the previous short bow, but the combined cost of the longbow and arrows is not enough half of the cost of the previous short bow, so even if 100,000 forbidden troops need to replace 80,000 sets of longbows, it is only 120,000 guan, plus some preparation costs, Jia Chaochang applied for a total of 1 million guan.

It sounds like this absolute number is very large, but it is really nothing if it is sprinkled on the big stall of the entire Hebei defense line.

You must know that in the fourth year of Qingli, the total expenditure in the northwest exceeded 4 million guan, which is the cost of the entire northwest garrison, but the simple repair of city defense and the construction of the camp exceeded 1.8 million guan.

The Hebei defense line, compared with the northwest defense line, is more important, a simple repair, 1 million yuan, this money compared with the northwest military spending, much less, these money saved from the northwest, directly subsidized to the northern defense line.

Ye Qingchen is a careful envoy, and it is impossible to implement every amount of money, which cannot be done in the 21st century, the development of science and technology can not completely grasp the hearts of the people, there are policies and countermeasures everywhere, not to mention, nominally, Jia Chaochang did not embezzle.

The money invested in the fortress itself is to improve the strength of the entire Hebei defense line, and the longbow is the inevitable operation to improve the efficiency of the forbidden army, these are all precedents and are not abrupt.

Jia Chaochang's ambition was thus concealed in the huge affairs of the entire Privy Council, and after the funds were in place, the operation of sharpening the knife was started.

Di Qing's forbidden army was increased by 20,000, a total of 8 armies, and a comprehensive redress.

The harvest in Baozhou, coupled with Di Qing's understanding of the longbow, the whole costume change was different from the original plan from the beginning.

In terms of soldiers, Di Qing transferred more recruits, maybe it could not reach 100%, but it reached about 6 percent, and the entire longbow training was almost selected and selected among the recruits.

Of course, the sharpshooters among the veterans have not given up, and on the premise of less time for training, they can't do without experienced archers, maybe these elite archers, after turning into longbowmen, are more or less unaccustomed, but there is no problem in acting as leading archers.

After a little familiarity with the use of the longbow, these archers may not be able to shoot volleys with the entire phalanx, but they can guide the phalanx, so that they can use their experience.

In Di Qing's opinion, with the deepening of the use of longbows, these archers, in the end, will be gradually eliminated, and the forbidden army system that has been formed is incompatible with this new training method, but overall, the discipline is better than the latter.

A large number of recruits entered the barracks, and in the early stage, there were a lot of problems, and the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army under Di Qing weakened a lot, but in the gradual training, Di Qing found that the effect was very good.

As long as they have completed the most basic training, especially according to the method of recruit training, there seems to be no problem, but once they arrive at the exercise, there is immediately a difference, compared with other mixed part of the veteran team, the execution and combat effectiveness have been significantly improved by a grade.

It seems that it takes more effort, but in fact, the efficiency will be higher and the combat effectiveness will be stronger, which also makes Di Qing stick to his own opinion, and gradually combine these methods with his own experience to better train the troops.

If Zhao Xin knew that his training method in Miaojiazhuang was discovered by the god of war in the Northern Song Dynasty, and successfully applied it, he began to exert excellent results, he didn't know how he would feel.

However, this kind of training, no matter how much training, is only a quasi-modern army, combining the longbow that is most like the era of thermal weapons with the modern army, and the effect of the combination of the two should be able to completely destroy the army of this era.

Similar costume changes were commonplace in the Northern Song Dynasty, and at the same time, Han Qi had already proved the role of the longbow in the northwest, everyone thought that this was just a rational change of dress in the Privy Council, and only those generals knew that there was going to be a big war to be fought next, and no one else knew.

These generals, including Di Qing, did not leak this news, the reason is very simple, the entire Northern Song Dynasty military, generals with the same identity as them, I don't know how many, once this matter is exposed, how many have backgrounds, and capable people will occupy this position.

In the decades since the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, the sixteen states of Yanyun have become a huge wish, and if there is an opportunity to help the official family of Zhao and Song to seize the sixteen states of Yanyun from the hands of the Liao State, what kind of treatment will it be, and the marquis will pay homage to the prime minister and walk to the peak of life.

Bianliang in the Northern Song Dynasty gradually regained its calm, and the news of the Liao State gradually disappeared after initially causing a certain amount of turmoil.

On the one hand, the people who are qualified to know this situation belong to a minority, and on the other hand, the situation in all aspects of the Northern Song Dynasty is improving, and all kinds of things are in the ascendant, and there is no time to pay attention to such a mess of things in Liao.

Hongze Lake, thousands of miles away from Bianliang, is a different scene, itself, Zhao Xin, who was scheduled to go to Bianliang, was actually delayed for several months.

Originally, he was supposed to enter Bianliang in July and August, but in fact, he was stopped at Hongze Lake.

There was a huge change in the whole plan, there was a huge accident in the steel mill, a furnace of 20 tons of molten steel, because of an operation error, there was a side leak, at least more than 400 people were killed, more than 1,000 people were injured.

At that time, when I came to report for the first time, I just said that there was an accident and how much economic loss was caused, even if Zhao Xin used the methods of later generations to build the Dinghai Navy, but the time was too short to change the views of some officials.

They are more concerned about the loss of property, but Zhao Xin is different, he is more concerned about people.

Any production unit, production machine, is operated by talents, and without people, these things cannot be produced.

A brief assessment of the economic damage shows how big the accident was, and the steelmaking plant itself is a labor-intensive industry, and in this era, manpower has become the focus without large-scale machines.

After asking again and again, the specific figure was reported, and Zhao Xin was immediately startled, this loss was also a little unacceptable to him, who was used to seeing later generations of consultations.

Zhao Xin knew very well that in the process of industrial development, the harm caused by such a huge liability accident would leave a huge hidden danger if it was dealt with by the officials left behind in the Dinghai Navy.

They did not have the experience to deal with these mining disasters flexibly, and if they were to follow the experience of the Northern Song officials, the results would be disastrous.

The development of the Dinghai Navy is a key truncation now, and there has always been no problem, which is gratifying to Zhao Xin, and it is also what has kept him worried, but he doesn't know what he is worried about.

Now, the worry has finally appeared, at the stall where he left, there was such a terrible accident, if it is not dealt with properly, it will even delay the development of the entire Dinghai Navy, which is not a trivial matter for the Dinghai Navy.

For this reason, he even changed his itinerary, completely adjusted the originally prepared plan, and postponed the plan to enter Bianliang in July and August and start the entire railway project.

Steel is the key to the construction of the railway, this time the accident in the steel plant, not only a large number of skilled workers were injured or killed, a large number of steel facilities, but also affected, it is almost impossible to produce enough steel at the same time, even if the railway plan is finalized, it can only be shelved.

A huge railway spread throughout the Northern Song Dynasty, the amount of iron needed is an astronomical amount, and at the same time, it takes a long time to be able to finally complete, two or three months, this has little impact, and he still has a lot of time, especially when the Western Xia has perished, the Northern Song Dynasty has more time.

Fortunately, this is in the Northern Song Dynasty, the pace of production and life, not so fast, postponed for a few months, to the New Year's Festival, debriefing and return to Beijing together.

In fact, Zhao Xin's return was really timely, if he didn't come back, the officials who had been promoted would have sealed the ironworks, stopped the smelting furnace, and instead chose the way of the Daimyo's Mansion.

It is mature, and it will not be dangerous on a large scale, but this is a reversal of history for the Dinghai Navy, the efficiency of the blast furnace is much higher than that of ordinary iron smelting, even if the blacksmith workshop of the Daimyo Mansion now uses catalysts, all kinds of coke, and even summarizes the method of improving production efficiency, but in the 21st century, it has been proved with countless examples that the cost of small-scale is always higher than that of large-scale.

An accident, which often happens in industrial production, after being discovered, as long as the cause is carefully found, no matter how big the loss is, it is acceptable, and it cannot be just given up.

Zhao Xin's timely return stopped the decline of the steel plant, and his timely return stabilized the fluctuating atmosphere and avoided a series of huge hidden dangers.