Tokyo, Kaifeng Province.

On October 17, Kaifeng also ushered in the first snow of this winter. The thin snow in the city indicates that next year is likely to be a good year. This gave some relief to the monarchs and ministers who were suffering from the shortage of food after the Song Liao war.

Although Wu Haogu made a package ticket, he could still transport 2 million stone flour to Kaifeng Mansion this winter and next spring. However, the erosion of Hebei West Road and the entry of a large number of refugees into Kaifeng Province have once again increased the gap in food supply. At present, Henan's urban agglomerations are not only unable to receive Hebei's grain supplies, but also have to take out a lot of extra food to supply refugees and military supplies on Hebei's West Road. The amount of rice and grain needed far exceeded the amount that Wu Haogu could grab from Liaodong.

So since October, the price of grain in Kaifeng Province has been rising every day! It has risen from two or four hundred yuan per stone of flour in September to nearly five yuan! It has more than doubled in just over a month! Of course, there are reasons for the hoarding of grain merchants and the hoarding of grain by wealthy families for emergencies (siege). But no one can ignore the role of real supply and demand.

Climb any gate outside Kaifeng Mansion and take a look outside, you can see that the shacks of the refugees are covered with a large area, almost boundless, I am afraid that there are hundreds of thousands of millions!

This is only the refugees who ran to Kaifeng Mansion and were not allowed to enter the city. Zhengzhou, Henan, Huazhou, and Kaide have all reported that they have accepted a large number of Hebei refugees these days, and have asked the imperial court to allocate money and grain for assistance.

And Ji Yi, who is located in the Daimyo's Mansion, not only has no way to stop the Hebei refugees from going south, but also stretches out his hand to ask for military expenses, and he has a posture of not giving up without spending all 10,000 yuan!

In addition to spending money on the battlefield in Hebei, and the refugees who fled to Henan need the imperial court to come up with countless money and food relief, the official Zhao Ji allocated a large amount of money for the expansion and construction of Xiangyang Mansion, and spent countless sums of money in order to seal Mount Tai and renovate Yanfu Palace. In this way, in the few months of the war with the Liao State, the originally abundant treasury suddenly became empty. The gold and silver wealth was spent like flowing water, but the income was a big cut away because of the war in Hebei.

Thinking of the money and food spent like flowing water, Cai Jing, who was standing on the Chongzheng Palace, sighed in his heart. He originally thought that he could be a prime minister of peace, and he didn't have to worry about a war that could never be won and money that would never be enough to spend, as long as he served the official family well, everything would be fine.

But I never thought that Wu Haogu, for his own selfishness, forcibly tied the Great Song Dynasty to the chariot of war with the Khitan! And Ji Yi, who is clearly the same party as his own family, is the Hebei capital transfer envoy and the tiger, and together with Wu Haogu, he proposed "10,000 anti-Liao military expenses". What's even more hateful is that now tens of millions have been dialed down, but the Liao soldiers have played triumphant songs all the way to Liyang.

If it weren't for the fact that the Yellow River hadn't frozen yet, I'm afraid it would have been under the city of Kaifeng!

And the Liao soldiers may have come to Kaifeng Mansion and Zhao Ji allocated a huge amount of money to build Xiangyang Mansion, which produced an unexpected consequence. It's that the housing prices in Kaifeng Mansion have actually fallen!

The housing prices in Kaifeng Mansion will actually fall! How can the house in Kaifeng Mansion fall?

This not only subverted Cai Jing's basic perception of the eternal rise of real estate in Kaifeng Mansion, but also completely ruined the plan to sell the government-owned real estate and land in Kaifeng Mansion to cash out to enrich military spending. Because now the real estate in Kaifeng Mansion is not only falling, but there is basically no buying - seeing that the Liao army is about to enter the city, who is still buying a house in Kaifeng Mansion? If you have money, you can also invest in Haizhou or Xiangyang Mansion.

On the one hand, military spending is rising, and on the other hand, land finances are drying up day by day. Even the windfall from the City Shipping Division has been reduced by more than half because the Five Islands Inspection Division under the Sea Route City Shipping Division needs military spending in Liaodong.

Cai Jing, who originally thought that he could spend money lavishly, suddenly found that he was a clever woman who wanted to cook without rice.

Cai Jing was helpless for a while, and could only hope that the war with the Great Liao State would end soon, and he must not become a bottomless pit that would never be filled. Otherwise, the hard days before Xining's change of law would have reappeared.

However, the suggestion of betraying the country and seeking peace will never come out of Cai Jing's mouth under any circumstances. Because he knew too well the thoughts of those colleagues who stood on the throne. Although everyone wants to ask for peace, no one will carry this pot.

Of course, they will not jump out to stop it, they will only do everything possible to avoid it, just watching others carry the black pot. Then wait until the war disaster has passed, and then jump out and impeach!

Oh, it is not only the one who betrays the country to seek glory that needs to be impeached, but also Wu Haogu, who is good at provoking the border, Ji Yi, who misled the country in the main battle, and the generals of Hebei who have been fighting for a long time without success.

In short, none of the people who were involved in this war ran, and everyone had to memorize a badge.

However, Cai Jing is also a figure who has reached heaven, and he also knows that the Son of Heaven is seeking peace with Yelu Yanxi through Gao Yu. And it was a success!

Thank God that the black cauldron of betraying the country has finally been carried by someone.

It's just that when the Son of Heaven proposes this traitorous plan later, what should he do? Blocking is definitely not going to work...... If you support it, will it become a public enemy of Shilin?

You have to think about it!

Zhao Ji's gaze also swept over the faces of the ordinary ministers in the hall at this time, and found that everyone was frowning, thinking hard, and there was a little comfort in their hearts.

Such a civil servant is still worried about the country and the people!

"Zhuqing," Zhao Ji finally spoke, "Gao Yu played yesterday, saying that the Liao army is large, it is really difficult to win a decisive battle in the field, and the weather is suddenly cold, and the Yellow River is about to freeze." In order to save tens of millions of people in Henan from the war, he had some contact with the Khitans in the past few days, and finally negotiated a draft peace treaty to eliminate the disaster of the war. He did not cut the land, but only paid some gold and silver silk. ”

He paused, "The New Year's coin is increased to 1 million yuan, and another 5 million yuan is given at one time, which is indeed a little more ......."

His gaze wandered around the temple, as if to see who would be the first to speak and what kind of words would be spoken. What if someone openly contradicts or even has a "refutation incident"? The weather is getting colder and colder, and the Yellow River will soon freeze!

I don't know how long it took, Taifu Temple Qing Su Chi was the first to come out and play: "Your Majesty wants to emulate Tang Taizong's Weishui Alliance?" ”

The Weishui Alliance was an expedient measure taken by Tang Taizong Li Shimin when he first ascended the throne in the face of the Turkic Jieli Khan's army, which suddenly advanced to the vicinity of Chang'an City. A few years later, Jieli Khan's Eastern Turks were served by Li Shimin.

Hearing Su Chi's words, Cai Jing also had to praise in his heart: This son of the Su family is really smart!

Zhao Ji also laughed when he heard it, he was still worried about how to go down the steps, but he didn't expect such a big problem to be solved by Su Chi with a word. Needless to say, after Zhang Shangying retired, a vacated position of the ruler was made for him.

Zhao Ji said: "Yes, yes, that's what I mean." ”

If you have the steps, then hurry down!

Cai Jing let out a sigh and said, "Your Majesty Shengming! The current situation is exactly the same as when Tang Taizong made the Weishui Alliance, His Majesty will take a step back today, and there will be a day when Yanjing will be restored in the future. ”

As soon as Cai Jing took the lead, the ministers in the palace did not hesitate, and they all echoed in unison.

Zhao Ji said: "Since all the ministers mean this, then the edict allows Gao Yu to negotiate peace with Yelu Yanxi, if Yelu Yanxi is willing to withdraw his troops immediately, he can first withdraw five million taels from the treasury of the Daimyo Mansion to the Liao." The specific covenant can be discussed after the Liao people return to this territory. ”

"Your Majesty," Zheng Juzhong, the Privy Councillor, suddenly played at this time, "What about the siege of Xijin Mansion?" What to do with the Great Camp among the Rivers? ”

"Naturally, the army is retreating!" Zhao Ji said, "According to Gao Yu and Yelu Yanxi's proposal, they should each retreat to their own territory and restore the situation before the war. He thought for a while, "I also sent an edict to Wu Haogu, so that he could stop besieging the city of Xijinfu, and the armies outside the city of Xijinfu should retreat to the camp between the rivers first, and then retreat to the south of the Jiehe River after the Liao soldiers return north!" ”

"What about the position of the ancient Yanshan Road Commander who was a little appeased? Do you want to get rid of it right away? Zheng Juzhong asked again.

"I should have been spared! Even the Yanshan Road Pass was slightly appeased, and the envoys had to be withdrawn together. Zhao Ji said, "Tianjin Prefecture was also renamed Jiezhou at the same time, and the land north of the Jiehe River under its jurisdiction will also be given up after the Liao people retreated."

In addition, the coastal city ship production department should also immediately retreat from Liao Guochenzhou! ”

"Your Majesty, do you still let Wu Haogu take up the post of Zhijie Prefecture?" Zheng Juzhong asked again.

Zhao Ji frowned slightly, and ordered Wu Haogu to withdraw his troops from the city of Xijin Mansion and give up all the lands north of the Jiehe, which was a very big blow to Wu Haogu. It's not just that the work has been lost. According to Wang Hao's recital. To the north of the Jiehe River, the land that originally belonged to Wuqing County of the Liao State has been allocated to the Yandi Haoqiang who belonged to Wu Haogu and the utility knights who followed Wu Haogu.

In addition, Wu Haogu also promised the soldiers under his jurisdiction that he would allocate the land outside Yanjing City to them, and at least 100 acres of land could be obtained.

Now that these have all come to naught, Wu Haogu will inevitably suffer a lot of vitality, and if he is deprived of his power in Jiezhou and Jiehe Commercial City, then it is difficult to say whether he will take risks. Although the whole world will not support him, his army seems to be quite capable of fighting, and it will be a problem if it really makes trouble.

So I still have to appease and slowly find a way to summon the Jingshi......

Zhao Ji said: "The affairs of Zhijie Prefecture are still taken care of by Wu Haogu. Then he added, "Now is not the time to release the military power with a glass of wine." ”

In the end, this Great Song Dynasty official can't compete with his son Zhao Gou, and what he thinks of now is just a glass of wine to release the military power.

A rich man will always be given to him in his old age. Not only can Wu Haogu enjoy the benefits of releasing military power with a glass of wine, but even Gao Yu, Zhang Yuan, and Han Xiaoxuan can also be rich and noble.

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