Goryeo is known as Little China. It is rumored that earlier the Goryeo courtier Kim Jin sent an envoy to the Great Song Dynasty, and together with the poems of Park In-liang who traveled with him, was published in the "Xiaohua Collection" and circulated in the Song Dynasty, so that Goryeo received the reputation of "Little China".

But no matter how little China is, Goryeo is also a foreign race.

The current situation of Qilu, Zong Ze knows it well. In order to attract people's hearts and collect public opinion, King Qi exempted autumn grain last year, and this year it will be exempted in summer and autumn, and he plans to abolish the poll tax.

Not to mention the former, the Liangshan Army still bears a year's field tax, but it is a bit absurd to abandon the poll tax so straightforwardly.

It's not that the current Liangshan Army can get hundreds of thousands or millions of yuan a year by collecting taxes on people in the jurisdictional areas. The tax of my Great Song Dynasty is very heavy, but it is not so much.

In the southeast, where the per capita tax is the heaviest, the tax in some places is "only" 500 or 600 yuan per ding, otherwise how could there be a saying in the southern regions that "children are not raised"?

Shandong is not richer than the southeast, and the per capita tax has also decreased, and each ding is about 100 yuan. Under the Zhao and Song tax systems, this was a heavy burden for the people. can be put such a standard in the entire "Qi country", and the annual per capita tax is about 100,000 yuan.

Ding Tax, Ding Tax, refers to adult males, between the ages of 20 and 60.

Lu Qian didn't care about this little money, but Wen Huanzhang thought that instead of exempting people from all the money, it would be better to only ask the people of the soldiers to pay taxes.

Lu Qian thought about it and agreed immediately.

Zong Ze also had no objection. The people of Qilu have more than a year of cultivation, and the people will be rejuvenated. This person's tax is not a big burden.

"Cut the flesh and blood of foreign races to make up for my needs in China. This is the inner saint and the outer king. ”

Lu Qian waved his hand and said shamelessly.

In addition to recruiting troops and horses, the Liangshan Army repaired land and rivers, set up hundreds of officials and officials, and some necessary official offices and school halls, which cost a lot of money. Even if his existing savings of money and food can still be supported, there will be a day when they will be exhausted. In the end, it is still necessary to take it from the people.

Zong Ze was the head of Lu Qian's subordinate officials, and some of Lu Qian's plans were explained to him. According to Lu Qian's intentions, the people's taxes will be greatly reduced, which is much worse than that of the Song Dynasty, so the treasury revenue will also be greatly reduced. In the future, when the army is mostly used, money and food are indispensable. In this way, he is demanding the people under his rule, or raising a knife to cut the flesh and blood of foreign tribes...... Zong Ze undoubtedly chose the latter.

Although the concept of "if the name is not right, the word is not good", Zong Ze broke his past insistence in the face of the extremely real problem of 'the people of Li suffering'.

But today, when Lu Qian talked about Goryeo, he was shocked by the attitude of treating it as a chopping board fish and taking it. For the first time, I knew that "the inner saint and the outer king" could be explained in this way. Then a contempt for himself rose in his heart.

Didn't he Zongze have already made a decision, so why do you regret what happened to Goryeo? This is the fake compassion of the cat crying mouse, and this is also a kind of hypocrisy that can't let go of the body.

As a political figure, as the highest civil servant in the land of Qilu, it is indispensable to have a false trick on the surface, but Zong Ze must recognize his heart even more. I thought my face was thick and my heart was black.

That's it. The generals retreated one after another, and several ministers also retreated, only Zong Ze was left behind by Lu Qian.

After some talking, Zong Ze said: "The king is extremely considerate. is so polite and courteous, it is not ridiculed by the people of the world. ”

Lu Qian was very surprised by Zong Ze's approving attitude, but when he heard his last sentence, he sneered: "Isn't it difficult to pick bones in eggs?" I raised thousands of troops just for a few lowly merchants and people, how could it not be a ready-made excuse in the mouths of those scholars? ”

"This is what you know and I know. Outsiders don't have to pay attention to their tongues. You go ......" Lu Qian instructed Zong Ze, and put the heads and tails of the merchant merchant sailors in place, and Zong Ze took the order and left.

Now that the ice along this coast has not been resolved, it is too early for the Yangsan army to really enter Goryeo. Everything came and went, everything was ready to be deployed.

After Lu Qian held a multi-day meeting with the civil and military courtiers, the workload plummeted again.

Zong Ze is a good prime minister, Lin Chong recruited them as a training army, and they were also under Lu Qian's nose from beginning to end. In the first half of February of this year, Lu Qian enjoyed a rare comfortable life as an otaku.

But in the second half of February, as the local garrisons drawn by the state capitals gathered in Qingzhou, Lu Qian was busy again. Haunted the military again and again, but he was busy and happy.

He was in the midst of hosts, and he had seen his own strength grow, and what could be more pleasing to him?

Human beings are very complex animals, and each person has their own unique three views. In later generations, Yang Ma once played with fire and said: Are you happy?

But what is happiness for people?

Lu Qian felt that the so-called happiness, in the final analysis, depends on whether a person's selfish desires are satisfied. And the vast majority of people measure happiness - the degree of satisfaction of desires, there are two different scales.

Like himself.

In his eyes, there is one kind of happiness that is the happiness of others. According to the desires of others that have been satisfied, it is clear at a glance.

For example: This guy is very rich, has a very good income, a luxury car and a mansion, and a beautiful female ticket ......, taking advantage of himself is a lo dick, and his life is super bleak.

The greatest basis for a person's own happiness is the potential desires that he has conceived, hoped, worked, or has not yet worked hard to satisfy, which only he knows best, and others may not be able to fully understand.

Lu Qian's great wish is to unify the whole country, and then conquer as many lands as he can, and kill all the lands he can hook. This is not only to leave a big foundation and a big family property for his children and grandchildren, but also to realize his dream of an angry youth, a dream of China to truly become a "country on the tide".

The future of Lu Qian's harem, which was heard and praised and ridiculed, was chaotic, and he himself was not worried at all. Because he felt that he had the power to earn a throne for all his sons.

In this day and age, it is unrealistic to build a unified, centralized, and immensely large super-empire.

Like Zong Zhou, dividing the world is the real way, and it is the real magic method to expand the sacred territory of China.

And to achieve such a grand goal, Lu Qian needs a strong army.

You must know that even if he is beaten to the bridle, in essence, he can pull up an elite force of no less than 200,000 people, which is something that the current Liangshan army cannot resist. Therefore, the Liangshan army is still weak and needs to be strengthened urgently.

In this way, seeing these new troops transferred from various state capitals, although they had only just been trained for a short time, and they were far from the combat strength of the veterans of the Liangshan Army, they were a group of rookies, but this still made him happy. At that moment, Lu Qian was definitely happy.

Although he woke up the next day, he felt that he was very unlucky. His wish is to be taller than Mount Everest, and the Mariana Trench can't drown his head, but now he is shorter than Mount Tai.

"Beep ......"

A sharp whistle sounded, and at the same time, the leader of the team shouted, "Together, go-"

There were quite a few local garrison troops assembled on the colonel's field for drills.

Walking in unison, then standing, turning, rotating half a circle with the left and right end pacesetters as the basic point, as well as setting up a gun, raising a shield, etc., this is the most basic training. Not far away, the garrison of Jinan Mansion is climbing high and low, walking on the balance beam, climbing over the sheep and horse wall, jumping over the ditch, etc., and there is a water leak next to it, which is very strict.

Farther away, a group of 100 recruits was conducting a rapid formation drill under the surprise attack of the cavalry.

The cavalry rushed out from behind the canopy a mile away and rushed towards the infantry on the march. The sound of rolling horses' hooves, the galloping cavalry, even if these recruits knew that this was fake, the recruits were still timid, and the results of the drill were not ideal.

That was really just a matter of turning them from two columns on the march into a stronger phalanx.

The distance of one mile is indeed very short for the cavalry. But they rushed out from behind the baffle to increase the horse's speed, which also required a process of speeding. If the infantry can keep their composure and line up in the phalanx that the recruits practiced during training, with the shield at the front, followed by the spear, and then the sword, there will definitely be enough time.

Otherwise, it doesn't make sense.

But the results were far from ideal.

Three months is not a long time for a recruit to become a rookie who has initially mastered combat skills from the day he enlisted. But from a rookie to a veteran of the battle, if you don't see blood on the battlefield yourself, no matter how long you have time, it's not enough.

But for these new troops, Lu Qian is still satisfied on the whole. He randomly transferred two troops, the physical training was qualified, the weapons were not to mention each other, and the level of archery and crossbow was not bad. At least not badly on the school field.

At the same time, the loyalty of the soldiers to him was generally high.

These recruits are either homeless people, or young people from all over the country who have taken the initiative to join the army and enlist, and it can be said that they have all received Lu Qian's favor, and this loyalty is naturally high.

Especially those troops who have been cordially 'received' by Lu Qian, their loyalty has soared collectively. I just don't know how long I can keep my value!

By the end of February, Lu Qian also took Li Dao as an envoy to Goryeo. The sail shadow of the ship had just disappeared from Weihai Port, and more and more troops had gathered in Yantai Port and Weihai Port.

Everything is going according to plan.

Qi Lu's every move was watched by countless pairs of eyes around him, and Zhao Ji didn't know what Lu Qian was going to do. Why did he suddenly gather twenty or thirty thousand troops in Yantai and Weihai. But it's okay to have something, and it's always right to urge the Western Army.

In February and March, the earth warmed up, and the rebel Tianhu in Hedong was ready to move again. Zhao Ji saw it very clearly, Tian Hu was intent on Taiyuan, and this guy had a big plan!

But now he had to endure it. Patience until the arrival of the Western Army, and then the soldiers divided into two routes, and at the same time exterminated Tian Hu, Wang Qing and others, and then the army swept south to square La, and finally fought to the death in Liangshan thieves.

That's what Zhao Ji's plan is. He is a very smart person, and he failed to negotiate with the Liang thieves before, but this does not mean that he has not gained. First of all, he can be sure that the Liangshan Bandit Army does not want to fight. This is the most important point!

Song Room and Qilu, hemp rod to fight wolves are afraid, it is by no means an empty word.

So he let the great enemy stand still, as he did cutting down a tree, cutting off the branches and leaves, and then cutting down its trunk.

Although the Liang thief will definitely not let himself do it like a big tree that doesn't know pain, Zhao Ji privately believes that there will be no big conflict between them in the first half of the year.

At most, Huainan lost, or a Liangshan thief killed outside Tokyo and showed off his might.

Zhao Ji didn't find out that it was the beginning of last year's winter, and the bottom line in his heart retreated again and again, and it was going to be unrecognizable.

……

Yidu City, State Guesthouse.

Fang Fei, who was rough and reckless on the outside, now has a dull face, and he can't see half of his recklessness.

The person opposite him was none other than Gao Yu. The latter had a frosty face, obviously just as unhappy.

"What does Lu Qian want to do when he puts tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Yantai Port and Weihai Port? It's hateful. My sister-in-law is all his person, and he still hides it so carefully? ”

Fang Fei was not afraid of Lu Qian's moth, and the two sides agreed that the pen and ink were not dry, and the two sides were bounded by the Yangtze River and reached Jiangzhou [Jiujiang] in the west. This agreement has just been signed, and Lu Qian will not slap himself in the face.

However, Liang Shanbo is not so strong that the army is greatly surplus, and now he suddenly gathers troops, and he must have a plan. But what made the two of them sad was that they couldn't think of a reason even after racking their brains. This is called Fang Fei and Gao Yu have a kind of frustration in IQ.