Chapter 447: Sources of Funding

Di Qing didn't sell it too much, he quickly said the way to do the opposite, and to do the opposite, that is, to strengthen Yuan Hao.

This method made Jia Chaochang a little dumbfounded, he didn't expect that it would be such an opinion, that is, to smuggle a large number of weapons to the Liao State as much as possible, intentionally or unintentionally, let him fall into the hands of Yuan Hao.

Smuggling weapons, what a crazy idea, but also to smuggle to the hinterland of Liao, to fall into the hands of Yuan Hao, in the middle, not to mention the problem of danger, to do, it is not easy, even if it is the Privy Council, small batches may be possible, large quantities may be difficult.

In Di Qing's view, the Liao State is strong and Yuan Hao is weak, under the premise that both of them are enemies, strengthening one of them is a good choice, if Yuan Hao can give the Liao State enough damage on the eve of destruction, it will be of great benefit to the Northern Song Dynasty's next actions.

Even if it is as strong as Liao, it is impossible to quickly regroup after a major war and participate in another big war, and the Northern Song Dynasty can seize this opportunity to march immediately after a big war.

Jia Chaochang, as a privy envoy, is not ignorant of soldiers, he also understands that this is to increase Yuan Hao's strength, when Yuan Hao's knife is sharper, the more lethality will be to Liao.

In fact, in the Northern Song Dynasty has not yet supported the Liao State, Yuan Hao has given the Northern Song Dynasty a huge return, so in three or four months, Yuan Hao's own strength has made the Liao State lose more than one-third of its potential, if on this basis, and then obtain more sophisticated weapons, the lethality of the Liao State will be much greater.

Liao and Xixia to the current move, is already endless, Xixia even has no country, half of the population was killed, Xixia soon retaliated back, the party tribes in the Liao State, were forced to enter Suzhou, many other tribes, Khitan, almost by Yuan Hao's butcher's knife, completely killed over, unceremoniously said that the current grassland, has been a river of blood.

There is no hypocrisy between politics, but under the premise that the two sides will almost inevitably fight, it is the best choice to strengthen the weak side, increase the strength of the weak Israeli side, and let both sides lose and lose

Knowing this, there is still no way to decide, because at least more than 30,000 sets of equipment are needed, and these equipment can be changed with the army, under the premise that the quality of the iron materials in the Daimyo Mansion is getting better and better, and the price is getting lower and lower, even if it is all replaced with fine iron step armor, it will not cost much more than the original, and the overall change of equipment is a thing that is mentioned on the agenda.

But no matter how much he replaced, the things that were replaced were not as before, but he couldn't be sent to Liao, no matter whether his destination was Liao, or Yuan Hao, as long as he was sent out, once it was revealed, it would be terrible, this is an absolute capital crime.

Di Qing also knew that this idea was a bit crazy, and his purpose was not to make Jia Chaochang responsible, under the current premise, this was no longer something that the Privy Council could promote independently, if the power of the Northern Song Dynasty was really integrated into it, and even the strength and depth of Han Qi in the northwest, perhaps, it might not be able to kill the Liao State at one time, but there was no problem with heavy damage, and it was not necessarily impossible to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun.

He is also waiting for Jia Chaochang's choice, if Jia Chaochang has the courage to poke this matter to the governor's political affairs meeting, and let the high-level including the governor's political affairs and Renzong jointly decide, he will give a complete plan and narration to promote the completion of this matter.

Di Qing is not worried, Yuan Hao and the Liao State merge, before maybe it could, now, the blood feud between the two sides is as deep as the sea, unless one side gives up and completely falls under the commander of the other side, it is possible to stop, otherwise, the two sides have only one way to go: war.

Longbow and Fortress, in terms of strategy, gave the Northern Song Dynasty and recovered the foundation of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, if this matter is done, the Western Xia army, which is already bloodthirsty and much higher in combat effectiveness than itself, coupled with the sophisticated protection of the Northern Song Dynasty, will definitely increase the combat effectiveness by more than half, which will be even more terrifying.

Jia Chaochang can't decide this matter, and the current situation is that he can't directly take it to the court to say it.

Attacking the Liao State and recovering the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun will inevitably have to be discussed in the court, but before this matter is finally put in place, he doesn't want everyone, especially Han Qi, to know about this matter.

And once it is decided, in a short period of time, Jia Chaochang will use all his strength to promote the entire plan, make a breakthrough in the center, and then quickly send troops to the Liao State, causing a fait accompli Under the premise that even if Han Qi reacts, it will not affect the overall situation.

No matter what Di Qing said, Jia Chaochang just didn't agree, he didn't want to, Di Qing couldn't push it, some things, even if everyone was optimistic, as long as his legal principles were lacking, there was no way to continue.

He was more interested in Yuan Hao's actions, a Liao State that was too strong to fight against and had always been the heaviest pressure in the Northern Song Dynasty, and was actually disgraced by Yuan Hao's 5,000 cavalry, what loopholes are there in the middle.

As the highest military organ in the entire Northern Song Dynasty, the Privy Council, especially after strengthening the collection of basic foreign information, sent back a huge amount of information every day, and it was also piled up in the Privy Council.

Di Qing got some information in his hands through a certain amount of retrieval, and after analyzing Yuan Hao's offensive route and the results along the way, he finally came to a terrible conclusion.

Liaoguo is really a foreign powerhouse, not as powerful as imagined.

That's right, the military strength of the Liao State is the most powerful among the Three Kingdoms, capable of mobilizing more than 500,000 cavalry at one time, including half of the heavy armored cavalry, which is only possible among the Three Kingdoms.

Even if it was established for such a long time, the Liao lord has always maintained the tradition of spring and autumn double hunting, some large-scale, using hundreds of thousands of troops to hunt, on the one hand, is a demonstration of strength, on the other hand, it is also the custom of the Liao State.

A large number of magnates and cavalry, under the might, looked, quite mighty.

Not only had Di Qing heard of these, but some of the envoys stationed in Liao had also experienced them personally, such as Fu Bi.

But the Liao State, which looks so powerful, was attacked by Yuan Hao, not to mention the timing, the relatively vast and sparsely populated environment of the Liao State has become a vast space.

The Northern Song Dynasty is not known for its cavalry, but it is not impossible to integrate an elite cavalry of five or six thousand people, carrying enough supplies to support the war, familiar with some weapons of the Liao State and Western Xia, under the guarantee of a basic protection, the results that can be brought into play should be greater than Yuan Hao's desperate bet.

On the premise that the war against the Liao State is about to become a reality, attacking the Liao State from all aspects is what a commander-in-chief should think of.

Di Qing was even greatly inspired, ignoring the fortress and the longbow, and concentrating on the study of the affairs of the Liao Kingdom, and a lot of wonderful ideas came up in his mind, and even some vague battle plans had been made.

Di Qing did not insist on smuggling weapons, which made Jia Chaochang breathe a sigh of relief, he was afraid that Di Qing would do this, when the time came, once it was a big trouble, it would really be difficult to clean up, after determining the possibility that the fortress and the longbow could be effectively strengthened and take the sixteen states of Yanyun, the huge machine of the Privy Council began to start.

Of course, compared with the 800,000 forbidden troops of the Northern Song Dynasty, the action of refitting the 100,000 forbidden troops is not remarkable at all, and the number of redresses every year will exceed this number.

Ye Qingchen's life has been much better recently, but the bottomless pit of farmland and water conservancy in the north still makes the originally abundant funds become nervous.

Especially with Han Qi's comparison, Ye Qingchen's work efficiency is becoming more and more apparent.

However, the comparison brought by Han Qi is not all bad, with Han Qi's consumption and data, even if it doubles the consumption of the Central Plains, it is much higher than the current consumption, which makes some expenses have an upper limit.

Those low-level squires, they have such a high vision, before, they only grasped Ye Qingchen's weakness, but now there is a clear example there, no matter how insatiable they are, what they are waiting for will be a terrible hammer.

Although Ye Qingchen cherishes his reputation, he has never been soft-hearted, and when he entered the eyes of Renzong and shouldered the important responsibilities of the three envoys, he was ruthless.

In just one year, in at least 10 projects, 4 million yuan was deducted, which is not an ability that can represent everything, and at the same time of his brilliant results, he also went to at least 50 moths, most of which lost their positions and took their posts, and the remaining few went to prison.

There are many plans for water conservancy construction in northern farmland, and similar projects are proposed every year, but he does not have a unified standard, the length of the canal, the difficulty of the canal, the volume of the canal, these differences will bring a huge increase in cost.

However, there is an example of Han Qi, under the premise of not allocating funds to the center, relying on the strength of the northwest, in just over half a year, a terrible water conservancy project has been established, once completed, it can add millions, or even millions of acres of huge land to the northwest, of which most of them are irrigated land.

It can be said unceremoniously that Han Qi has established the position of the future Northwest in the entire north in one fell swoop, such a huge farmland, coupled with a huge number of cattle and horses in the entire northwest, these natural livestock, combined with the unobstructed flat land in the northwest, you can imagine how good the efficiency is.

Perhaps, in a short period of time, because of the geographical location, traditional concepts and other reasons, the northwest may be much more difficult to attract people in the early stage, millions of acres of land, may not be completely effective, but in a long time, it will become a new growth point for the grain of the entire Northern Song Dynasty.

The people take food as the sky, and with food, it represents the stability of the people, and even the northwest radiates the entire northern region, which has huge benefits for the stability of the entire north, which also makes Ye Qingchen embarrassed from the side.

At this time, there are still these people who don't have long eyes, bump into each other, and are insatiable, and want to add a little more to the benefits they have already obtained, what Ye Qingchen can do is to overturn them in one fell swoop.

After 2 months of investigation, coupled with some other channels, the harvest news, Ye Qingchen began to raise the butcher's knife, in just 17 days, 128 items were investigated, and some officials were combined, officials and businessmen were combined, and even some small officials and local magnates were all cleaned up.

More than 280 households were raided, and more than 4,000 officials of various types were cleaned up, which showed a lot of ruthlessness, so it also recovered a lot of economic losses.

It's a pity that the economic losses that have been caused are no way, the river has deviated, or even wasted, can not be dug up and rebuilt, on the existing basis, as far as possible to reduce expenditures, the funds obtained by these raids, supplemented to the construction of farmland water conservancy, the efficiency compared to before, at least increased by more than 2 times, the overall investment, reduced a lot, at least, the three divisions in the northern farmland water conservancy, only with a slight supplement, can let him complete completely.

It's not too late to make amends, which makes Ye Qingchen a little relieved, it won't be too late, and he has more money on hand.

The volume of the Northern Song Dynasty was huge, and a slight movement, or a slight saving, could save a huge amount of money, which was iron before, and now, it is the northwest.

In the past, because of the non-stop Koubian in the Western Xia, the cost of the northwest was often high, and at the beginning of the first year of Qingli, the northwest border troubles began, almost all of them were 2 million guan per year, and they kept climbing, and now, it has almost reached 10 million guan.

If it weren't for the Northwest War led by Han Qi, in real history, after Qingli, the average annual growth would have increased to more than 15 million, and even in some extreme war years, it could soar to more than 20 million.

The Northwest issue has become a stubborn disease that plagued the Northern Song Dynasty, and even dragged the entire Northern Song Dynasty economy into the abyss.

But in this time and space, because of the appearance of Han Qi, because of the appearance of longbow fortresses and explosives, there was a terrible turning point in the entire northwest problem, no matter what the reason, in short, the Xingqing Mansion was breached, and the border of the Northern Song Dynasty changed from Western Xia to Liao.

This is also an enemy country, but it is much easier, even recently, the transaction in the northwest, the construction of the northwest, did not pay enough taxes to the center, but the part that was simply reduced, a few months, has been a lot, under the premise that the funds for the northern farmland and water conservancy do not increase, this part of the money has accumulated millions of yuan.

Jia Chaochang paid attention here, the change of clothes of 100,000 forbidden troops, the construction of at least 250 fortresses on the border, this cost of funds, at least millions of dollars, do not take money from Ye Qingchen, just rely on the money of the Privy Council, it is a drop in the bucket.