Jing Liangcai and Qin Dan were unconsciously indulged in Zhao Xing's question: Yes, why is there such a huge difference between countries and people?

It is said that it is the heavenly kingdom and the sage indoctrination - but how can the people of the Celestial Dynasty be whipped, driven, punished, and killed no matter how they are bent, driven, punished, and killed...... Nor can it increase their enthusiasm to defend their homeland!

What's wrong with this?

"Share the spoils!" Zhao Xing tapped his fingers on the table and said lightly: "We were sharing the spoils just now. The imperial court took pity on the suffering of the people of Huanqing Road, allocated us tea and medicine money, and gave us tax exemptions and subsidies, the kindness of the imperial court, and we local officials preached to those people one by one, and the people were very grateful to the imperial court - this is the republic, this is the government of the people. However, Lord Qin, Lord Jing, even so, the people are still unwilling to fight to the end to defend their homeland, they still need compulsory conscription, and they need to tattoo their faces.

Speaking of that war, Lord Qin, we haven't moved a copper plate for your stake money, have we? So, the war that just ended - to put it mildly, the imperial court did not invest in a copper plate.

At that time, the situation was that the Tangut people were blocking our doorstep. In the daily life of any ordinary person, he would never want to be blocked at the door of his house, waving his fists and swords and roaring. However, why are our people reluctant to come out and fight for the blockade of their own doors, they only want to hide behind the thick stone wall and wait for the Xia people to grab enough and retreat by themselves. Why is this happening?

At that time, I was there, and I didn't want to be blocked and abused, so I instigated the emotions of the people of Huaiweibao and instigated the second general Luo Xin and Zhu Baozhong, who were guests in Huaiweibao; So we jumped up and beat the wicked man who blocked the door. By the way, we will also treat others in the way of others—we will go and block the door of the wicked man's house once. Why is it that the same people have a completely different sense of fighting?

The soldiers ran so far to Western Xia, they couldn't run in vain? Block the door of the Tangut people once. They sweat and bleed, and they can't shed it in vain. This is what you want to eat when you're hungry and drink when you're thirsty, it's just common sense. So we took something from the territory of Western Xia to fill our stomachs and satisfy our hunger and thirst...... Of course, by the way, it also solved the problem of poverty among the soldiers.

So, whose stuff did we take by the way? Of course, it is the wicked people who hit our house, and the people of the enemy country! Where did their property come from, didn't they all steal it from the people of the Great Song Dynasty? We're just returning things to their rightful owners. We, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, will we not punish me for offending the enemy country ruthlessly? Won't I ask my soldiers to be happy without eating or drinking, starving, thirsting, or freezing to death in the territory of Western Xia?

Now. The soldiers have gone home, and those seizures should naturally be their trophies! A well-deserved prey. This is the reward that soldiers deserve for their hard work, blood and sweat on the battlefield - people die for money, and birds die for food. Fighting is not a trophy, what motivation do the soldiers have to fight in Western Xia. Blocking his door?

Don't worry, two adults. Speaking of which, the court did not gain nothing: we took back the slaves and earned money for the master, who did not have to pay taxes to the government for this income. According to the Heavenly Decree, those slaves were also the common people of the Emperor Song Dynasty who paid taxes to the government three years later. Therefore, the government is equivalent to increasing the tax payment, which is not a loss! What's more, doesn't the imperial court still occupy such a large piece of land, and we snatch that piece of land in Western Xia, which will be the land of my Great Song Dynasty in the future, and all the people who live on that land. Don't you still have to pay taxes to the imperial court?

I think that back then, Taizu set up a stake money, didn't he just want to buy the lives of the Khitans with wealth? Taizu said: I bought a Khitan head with twenty-four silks. The Khitan elite soldiers are only 100,000 people, and if they stop spending 2 million silk, the enemy will be exhausted. Today, the money for sealing the pile is gradually drying up, but the Khitan is still strong. Another Western Xia rose. I will take the wealth of my enemies. Reward the fierceness of the warrior - who said this is not the law of the ancestors?

So I counted left and right, and distributed the spoils to the soldiers who participated in the war. It was a big benefit for the imperial court. First: it can reduce the cost of war for the imperial court and make the people willing to fight. In the future, the imperial court does not need to allocate too much money, just give us weapons, and let the soldiers complete the rest of the work. As long as all the captures in each battle belong to the soldiers, in this way, the custodian soldiers will immediately rush forward with a scream when they hear that the enemy has been killed.

Second: The Tangut people have robbed me of the Great Song Dynasty for so many years, and every time the imperial court issues an edict to take responsibility, Liang Yikui always pretends to be crazy and stupid, and shirks it indiscriminately. Now that the Xia people have also tasted everything they have added to the people of Huanqing, don't the court officials just let out a bad breath! For example, in the future, the Tangut people came to ask us about the siege of the city and the seizure of land—what they said to the officials of the Great Song Dynasty at the beginning, and how we say it to the officials of the Tangut Dynasty now. I don't need to teach this!

Third: I heard that this war also alarmed the Liao people, which means: in the future, my Great Song Dynasty will fight against the Western Xia and Khitan alone, presumably this will make the gap in the sealing money more serious, and what the imperial court needs now is to use the least amount of money to motivate the soldiers to fight the enemy to the greatest extent. This is exactly what I did in this war, but I have always been low-key, and you don't need to praise me too much, so you don't need to praise me too much, just let me continue to work in Huanqing for the full term.

Moreover, taking the wealth of the enemy country and boosting the morale of our three armies has been used for a long time. The Art of War: This is exactly what it means to be an enemy because of food. So...... I suggest to the two adults: I don't say what I have done here, you will turn a blind eye and hear nothing. Let's ignore this quietly, can't we? Otherwise, you and I will be infamous for a thousand years in the future—those corrupt people, but they feel sorry for our enemies. I'm cruel to my enemies, and they can scold me for thousands of years. ”

Zhao Xing moved out of Taizu and Sun Tzu's Art of War to prove the legality and rationality of his actions. Although the teachings he said were contrary to the teachings of the saints, they were in line with the actual situation of Huanqing. Jing Liangcai was silently right, Qin Dan thought for a moment, grabbed Zhao Xing's words, and confirmed: "The imperial court needs to deal with Liao and Western Xia with the least amount of money - does the person mean that he is in favor of the imperial court to reduce the allocation to Huanqing?" ”

"Of course! We are waiting for the king's luck, so we naturally have to share the worries for the king. The Tangut people have succeeded in robbing every year, and the Liao people are now greedy, so we will inevitably have to deal with two enemies in the future, and this time of national crisis. A copper plate should be dressed as a flower in half, and the court should cut all aspects of expenses.

When the people of Huanqing Road were in the most difficult place last year, they were fortunate to have been relieved by the imperial court, so they took a breath. Now we are relieved. If the court is in trouble, can we not share the worries of the court - please rest assured, I will immediately send a fast horse to Jingzhao to discuss with Lord Fan, it is estimated that the old man is angry at this time, and when the anger is gone, how can he refuse to share the worries of the court? ”

Fan Chun did hold his breath, the imperial court had money to give to the enemy. The enemy used this money to rob Shaanxi every year, and the reason why the minister allocated the money was actually "to maintain the face of the imperial court". Therefore the gift of the year cannot be cut off.

The face of the court - when people come to the door, you also deliberately make a flattering face, and frequently give each other a red envelope for the New Year, whether this behavior is "faceless" or "faceless".

Based on this, Fan Chuncai did not give an inch to the imperial court's practice of reducing military spending. But wait until Zhao Xingdi's letter is delivered. After reading the explanation on the letter, he also came back to his senses, the old gentleman's temper disappeared, and he was embarrassed to come over to see Qin Dan, he gave Zhao Xing a letter, and the letter told the truth: "The annual gift is 600,000 yuan, half of the copper coins have been spent, and the tea and silk porcelain are still piled up in the warehouse, you need it." Just take it.

The imperial court's stake sealing money was distributed to Shaanxi Fourth Road, but this year's battle was Huanqing Road, and next year's Zhangdi Shenlei plan will be promoted, and the location of the city will also be selected on Huanqing Road. Therefore, half of this military expenditure can be taken from Huanqing Road, and the rest will be distributed to the other three roads. ”

As soon as Fan Chun relented, Zhao Xing immediately summoned Qin Dan. Signed for Qin Dan's sealing money. Zhao Xing signed for it. Jing Liangcai and Qin Dan breathed a sigh of relief. Because this also means that the military spending of Shaanxi Fourth Road can be reduced by half in the future.

The two money collectors greeted Zhao Xing excitedly: "Lord Zhao, our task has been handed over." Tonight we just went to Mingyue Building to gather, I heard that Shaanxi here is good, food abounds, I waited for a few days to sit restless, no time to visit, today just let Zhao adults ......"

Zhao Xinglian also became energetic after receiving a huge amount of money, he laughed and replied: "Look at what the two adults said, how can the two adults let you have a treat when they come to my land...... But unfortunately, I just recruited Luochuan to participate in the war, and I am ready to reward meritorious deeds. In this way, the two adults will go first, take my place name post and set a seat in Mingyue Tower, and I will go when I finish my business...... Haha, we're rich......"

Zhao Xing said, laughing wildly and turning into the back hall, leaving the two adults looking at each other.

In the back hall, the Luochuan fighters were all there, and Zhao Xing shouted happily: "I have money, and the state capital has a lot of money in hand." This year, there is no need to worry about local government procurement, this time, all the loot state capital is round. Ladies and gentlemen, don't distribute horses and slaves...... The little money was arguing, and we got a lot of money. ”

After a pause, Zhao Xing continued to add: "One-third of the war horses captured in this war are purchased by the government, and the remaining war horses are allowed to be sold in the horse market. ”

Wan Qianyong opened the account book on the side and added: "This time, more than 32,000 war horses and more than 7,000 cattle were seized, of which about 13,000 were trained foals. This is also a large amount, and the government can't eat it at one time, so it has to purchase it in three batches, and each war horse - the average price is 800 yuan. ”

The price is satisfactory to everyone.

Everyone had no objections and waited quietly for Wan Qiyong to continue. Wan Qiyong turned another page and added: "In this battle, we also captured a batch of horse meat, mutton, sheepskin, and cowhide, and we have slaughtered all the sheep we can find, and those that we can't bring back are thrown on the grassland, but there are still 60,000 catties of meat brought back." All of these were handed over to the government. The government decided to let the people of Huanqing Road celebrate this big victory together: on the first day of this year, each household will be given ten catties of meat and one catty of wine, and at the same time, the list will be issued to praise the warriors who participated in the battle. Just send those snatched meat, so that the people of Huanqing can also taste the taste of victory.

Also, the issue of the list of meritorious service to the imperial court...... After you go back, hurry up and report the fighters from each family, and my lord said that in terms of meritorious deeds, as long as you report the list of places, the pacification department will admit it. ”

This is a clear and unambiguous way to allow everyone to put their personal information into the credit book.

This is the greatest comfort that Zhao Xing can give them.

In this war against the Western Xia, the imperial court has not rewarded local officials excessively for their achievements, such as the great success of Huanqing Road this year, but all officials did not give additional rewards. The imperial court pursued this strategy based on the officialdom rules of the Great Song Dynasty - the rules of the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty were: resisting invasion is the job of the officials, and if they do well, they will be loyal to their duties, and if they do not do well, they will be removed from their posts and investigated.

Because of this. Zhao Xing was not commended for his exploits this time, and Fan Chun, Zhang and others did not receive any rewards. In addition, he was relegated to Hedong to repay his merits, and was also reprimanded by the imperial court. The imperial court replied: It is the duty of local officials to catch thieves, and Fan Ye asked the court to "grind" in this way, which is to forget the duties of officials - and then degrade!

There is no reward for civil officials, and military generals only talk about the first merit. As a result, Zhao Xing had to find another way. For example, this method of publishing the "list of warriors" is used to make those soldiers who cannot be rewarded by the imperial court get a cheer among the people to commend their courage in resisting the enemy......

Sadly. This meagre effort alone has exceeded the expectations of the combatants.

Originally. The soldiers were still a little reluctant to hand over some of the spoils, and now everyone was afraid that they would hand in less and the credit would be diluted. As soon as Zhou Junming heard Wan Qianyong's announcement, he immediately jumped up and said loudly: "I have no less than 100,000 households on Huanqing Road. 60,000 catties of meat is enough. Now that winter is coming, there are still some eliminated sheep in my ranch that can't survive the winter, and they will be dedicated to the government, so that the people of Huanqing Road can eat the victory meat of my family. ”

Victory meat - this statement also aroused Zhu Baozhong's sympathy, he also jumped up, waved his fist and said: "Your family has a ranch, but my family doesn't?" So-and-so also offered all the sheep that were culled out in the land...... Recruit adults, you must make it clear, this is my Zhu Baozhong's victory sheep. I, Zhu Baozhong, am a Song person, a pure and pure Song person. Fighting the Xixia people, I, Zhu Baozhong, am also a good man, deceiving Helan Yuan, and I Zhu Baozhong has made great contributions. ”

Zhao Xing held back a smile and glanced at Wan Qiyong, but Wan Qiyong turned a blind eye. Continue to dig through his books and read what was going on with the captives......

Since we met at Fort Wyway. Zhu Baozhong learned that Luo Xin's move to change his son's name to Zhou Junming was tacitly approved by Zhao Xing, and he immediately made a Song concubine the main room. also made the son born to the concubine a son-in-law.

This guy has no culture, and when he heard that there was a Cui among the four surnames of the Han people, he immediately named his son Cui Qing. and went around preaching that his son was of Qinghe Cui blood.

Seeing his son's curly hair, everyone who knows is asking rhetorically, but this guy is not conscious, and when he meets people, he glares at his brown eyes, and repeatedly admonishes: "I am a pure Song person, at least my son is, he is Qinghe Cui." Zhu Baozhong likes to raise his fist to strengthen his tone while speaking, and the people who listen to him look at his garlic mortar-sized fist, so they have to hold back a smile and hum twice to express their approval, of course, this may be to express noncommittal.

This time, Zhu Baozhong's speech was not questioned in any way. I saw him roll up his sleeves, revealing his thick arm with heavy hair, staring at the cow's eyes and listening to Wan Qiyong's recitation: "A total of 13,000 men, women, and children were captured this time, including 4,000 strong men.

As for the young and strong...... Tsk, the gap is very big, a dozen mines need a total of 8,000 slave laborers, which is not enough to allocate. However, in this way, it is sold at a good price, and each strong man is six times, and you can buy one acre of good land here in Shaanxi. At this price, even if you go to Yangzhou, you can buy an acre of dry land.

Ahem, without further ado, our distribution plan is like this......"

Wan Jiyong then explained the distribution plan of the spoils one by one.

Among the captives, skilled workers were scarce, and although their land prices were more than three times that of ordinary people, it was a pity that most of these people were picked up by Zhao Xing, and the remaining number was too small.

After listening to this data, Zhou Junming smacked his lips and said, "There are only four thousand strong men - too few!" It seems that the men of the Western Xia are also dying, and in a few more years, will the Western Xia people be able to hold on. ”

Zhu Baozhong is stupid and bold, his thinking is different from others, Zhou Junming's emotion caused him to have a different feeling: "In this way, this business is almost impossible to do, there are still two years to recruit adults in office, and we will grab it for another two years, and it is estimated that there is nothing to grab from the Western Xia." I wondered if I would move to Hedong, which was close to the Liao Kingdom, and I could grab it for a few more years...... Ah, it's also close to Qinghe. ”

Zhou Junming also thought about emigration, because in Shaanxi, no matter how hard he tried, he was still a vassal in the eyes of everyone, and only by moving to other places and putting a layer of official color on his head could others really think that he was a Song man. So he didn't refute Zhu Baozhong's words, and fanned the flames and echoed: "I'm afraid my generation won't be able to do it, my father is going to marry me another Song person, and wait for her to give birth to a child." Let the child go to the imperial examination, if he can become an official, he will choose any place to be placed, and then, my family will change completely. ”

Zhu Baozhong was a little depressed when he heard this: "I'm not as smart as your father, I heard that your father asked Teacher Song Ren to teach you the Four and Five Classics since he was a child, and my kid missed the good period of teaching, and now he only likes wrestling and archery." A steppe man alive. I really hate it. ”

Wan Qiyong was still reading the list there: "Adult women also need it in the workshop, and now there is a shortage of women who know how to weave in the armor workshop." So most of our captives are in place, except for a few children, who are the most useless......"

Zhao Xing interjected: "I have all the children, but it costs too much money to raise them." I'll just give a little symbolic money. You two, were you just talking about children's education? Zhu Baozhong, you are very good, you are very brave in battle, I allow you to choose two children, and three or five attendants to enter my home school, and I will help you educate them to adulthood. Zhou Junming, your reward court has also come down, and he has been awarded the thirty-seventh rank of civil officials - Di Gonglang. ”

Civil official-Zhou Junming jumped up for joy. Zhao Xing then said: "Waiweibao is on the front line. There are only a few hundred strongmen in the whole castle. So I won't ask of you, Lord Zhu Bao and Zhou Digong, you two need to give me a little reward—I need a hundred dead men to carry out my next plan. This plan must be implemented before the first snowfall, so your manpower must be in place quickly. However, this is not a certain task, as long as you are careful to do what I say during training. There will be no major danger either. ”

After the spoils of the conference. In the blink of an eye, it was October of this year. On the Western Xia side, due to the repeated defeats of the Minister of State Liang Yikui. In order to prove that women's talents far exceed those of men in warfare, Empress Dowager Liang personally led her troops to meet the fortress that was being built at Luochuankou - a siege for ten days. Reluctantly, the army returned to Hongdezhai.

This time, Empress Dowager Liang faced a generation of famous generals Zhang and super corrupt official Zhao Xingdi teamed up.

The corrupt official Zhao Xing built the Dingbian City, which was cast with boulders and reinforced concrete, and the whirlwind cannon of the Western Xia hit the wall but a white spot, and after Zhao Xing captured the whirlwind cannon of the Western Xia, he obtained its operating principle after decomposition, and found that this was a torsion trebuchet, the prototype was born in Greece four thousand years ago - he remembered that soon the Mongols would call it "Huihui Cannon", making it a nightmare in the Southern Song Dynasty.

After Zhao Xing obtained the prototype of the return gun, he immediately made a larger torsion cannon with elastic steel plates, and erected one hundred and ten in one go at the head of Dingbian City. The cannon was condescending, farther, and faster, and it dropped not only stone bullets, but also large bombs and oil bombs.

Empress Dowager Liang was under Dingbian City and encountered the iron wall guards of the famous general Zhang. Zhang used the defense facilities arranged by the corrupt official Zhao Xing to give the Empress Dowager Liang a baptism of grenade bullets and fire bombs, and the Empress Dowager Liang was stunned by the old man, and finally retreated to Hongdezhai in a daze. However, the old man Zhang seemed to be in estrus, he bit the delicate Empress Dowager of Xixia and did not give up, it was night, Zhang launched a "shallow attack" after the "deep base", and pursued all the way to Hongdezhai......

Times have changed, and the Song army is no longer just beaten, but has begun to fight back. But the Empress Dowager Liang, who was on the battlefield, still did not have this awareness, and in view of the fact that the Song army had never dared to go out of the city to fight, she camped in Jindezhai with great brava - she was immediately attacked by Zhang's ruthless raid and defeated.

In fact, the Empress Dowager Liang is not as seductive as the legend, she is also a nomadic woman who bathes once a year according to the Western Xia tradition. But Zhang, a sixty-five-year-old man, finally blocked the door of the "First Girl of Western Xia", not caring whether she took a bath or not, he had to catch her and torture her with his own hands. That night, there was a great chaos in the Western Xia army, and the Empress Dowager Liang heard the Song army shouting "Capture the Empress Dowager Liang alive", she panicked, in order to keep her chastity - Shi Zai: The Empress Dowager abandoned the tent, changed her clothes and fled, and the Xia soldiers suffered many casualties.

Empress Dowager Liang disguised herself as a man and ran away, but another male commander of the Xia army had already realized the changes of the times, and Liang Yikui began to honestly build fortresses in Shimen Gorge and Wuyan Gorge in Western Xia near the mouth of the Guide River. While building a fortress, he said depressedly to the Western Xia generals around him: "When will it be my turn for the Western Xia people to repair the city crazily, and the Song people are going around to plunder in my realm, now, the world is difficult." Is this called ...... What did that Zhao Gouguan say - financial crisis? ”