Five days later, Li Yanqing's official report was delivered to the imperial court, and at the same time attached a list of Zeng's property, this list shocked the imperial court, there were 300,000 taels of gold alone, 8 million taels of silver, more than 30 million copper coins, hundreds of boxes of jewelry and jade, hundreds of shops of all kinds, and large industries such as houses, docks, warehouses, fleets, mines, etc., this property is equivalent to the current financial income of the Great Song Dynasty for a year, which is simply rich and rivals the country.

Now the silver inventory in the Zuozang Treasury is only 6 million taels, 300,000 taels of gold, everyone is denouncing Zeng Xiulin's huge greed at the same time, how to deal with the wealth of the Zeng family has become a topic of extremely heated debate, now the imperial court needs too many places to use money, to restore the relief pension system, to rebuild Taixue, to restore the local schools, to build dormitories for officials, now many low-level officials are still three or four people squeezed into a room.

Zhao Gou also wants to increase the amount of money for the ministers, improve the life of the harem, and let the harem concubines all use Baoyanzhai's fat powder.

Of course, it is necessary to restore the army, increase the number of troops, build a large number of weapons, build a strong defense, and all kinds of things need financial support, so Li Yanqing's raid harvest immediately gave the imperial court great hope.

Of course, Li Yanqing also has conditions, he put forward two distribution plans, the first plan, the imperial court and the Sichuan-Shaanxi Jinglufu each take half, the northwest three roads need huge military expenditures, the northwest three roads to maintain the scale of 200,000 Song troops, a month of military spending of one million, up to 12 million a year, in addition, to build new soldiers ordnance armor, to build trebuchets, cannons, the purchase of tents, oil, gunpowder, pig iron and other military items, to maintain the scale of about 1,000 craftsmen, at least 5 million a year.

The second plan is to take a year's military expenses from the Northwest Third Road, and hand over the rest to the imperial court, but the imperial court needs to support the reform of the tea and wine sales system in Bashu.

In fact, Zhao Gou, the Son of Heaven, has approved Li Yanqing to implement the reform of the sales system on the third road of Bashu, but this kind of major system reform related to people's livelihood and finance, the approval of the Son of Heaven is not enough, the key is to support the Zhizheng Hall, that is, to obtain the support of the imperial court, if only the approval of the Son of Heaven can be implemented smoothly, then Wang Anshi's reform will not be so difficult.

Li Yanqing's reform is to restore the tea and wine monopoly department, independent of the local government, this reform is not new, Bianjing tea and wine monopoly is in dual management, there is also a monopoly department, but the household department can also intervene, so Li Yanqing's reform itself is not too controversial.

The key is that the monopoly department is directly under the jurisdiction of the Jingluo Prefecture, and all the proceeds from the monopoly are used for the military expenses of the Northwest Third Road, and they will be handed over to the imperial court five years later.

This condition is a bit unacceptable, although the current taxes of the three roads of Bashu are used to support the three roads in the northwest, but this tax is controlled by the government, and now it is controlled by the government, to put it bluntly, it is controlled by the army, and it is not a good thing for the army to interfere in politics!

It is precisely because of this that Li Yanqing came up with a huge temptation, he only needed 17 million yuan, and the rest of the 300,000 taels of gold, more than 800,200,000 yuan, more than 10 million yuan of copper coins, and a large number of shops and real estate were all owned by the imperial court.

If the court refuses to agree to his plan, then it is likely that the wealth will not be obtained.

For this reason, there was also a huge disagreement in the imperial court, with half supporters and half opponents, opponents believed that once the finances were independent, it would cause the Northwest Third Route to get out of control, forming a danger of separating the warlords, while supporters believed that if the Northwest Third Route had an independent heart, even if the imperial court controlled the Bashu finances, it would be meaningless.

Moreover, the Northwest Third Route Army could easily occupy Bashu, and the imperial court had no choice, so it was better to let the Jinglue Mansion control the Monopoly Division, so that the imperial court could obtain huge wealth and greatly improve the financial difficulties of the imperial court.

The controversy within the Zhizheng Hall was the same as that of the imperial court, with Fan Zhixu, Gao Shen, and Zheng Wangzhi supporting Li Yanqing's second plan, while Lü Yihao, Fan Zongyin, and Zhu Shengfei opposed the control of the monopoly by the Jinglue Mansion.

The final choice was decided by Zhao Gou, the son of heaven, but this time there was the intervention of the Emperor Zhao Ji, who clearly opposed the monopoly controlled by the Jingluo Mansion.

In the study of the Royal Palace of Xizhao Mountain, Zhao Ji slapped the table with anger on his face and asked, "Are you still the emperor or not, can you accept such absurd conditions?" He is a minister, what qualifications does he have to bargain with the court in the first place? Could it be that he is really an independent warlord? ”

"Father, if he is an independent warlord, he has no need to inform the court at all, he can transport all so much property, he is also completely independent in Bashu, he is a strategic envoy of Sichuan and Shaanxi, these are his powers, but he did not do this, but put forward his own ideas, hoping that the court can agree, which shows that he has enough respect for the court, and the son believes that if the court does not agree, then he will not continue to implement reforms."

"Humph! A good one respects the court, is he playing with the court? Why didn't he let the imperial court control the monopoly division, why didn't he bring all the wealth to the imperial court and let the imperial court redistribute it? If he really was a minister of the imperial court, he should have done so. ”

"My father also saw with his own eyes that Zeng Xiulin has not only grabbed unimaginable wealth over the years, but he also seized the military funds that should have been given to the Sichuan-Shaanxi Economic Strategy Mansion without authorization, which seriously affected the military morale of the Jingzhao Army, and the ministers did not want this to happen again, so they agreed to Li Yanqing to investigate Zeng Xiulin."

Zhao Ji said coldly for a while: "It is my decision to let Zeng Xiulin seize the military expenses of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Economic Strategy!" ”

The room suddenly became cold, and neither of them spoke, and after a while, Zhao Ji said coldly: "I ask you to immediately remove Li Yanqing from his position as an envoy and transfer him back to the imperial court!" ”

Zhao Gou lowered his head for a long time and said, "Father, this decision is difficult for the sons and daughters to obey!" ”

"Good! Good! Good! ”

Zhao Ji sneered at Yangtian, "Your wings are finally stiffened, and you no longer listen to your father's advice, do you want to send troops to escort me back to the Jin country, so that the Jin people can continue to imprison me?" ”

Zhao Gou knelt down and said with a sad face: "Erchen never had this idea!" ”

"Bang!"

Zhao Ji slapped the table heavily and roared angrily: "Then why don't you listen to my advice, do you think I won't dare to abolish you?" ”

Zhao Gou was like being hit hard, and his father finally said this sentence.

He was silent for a long time, and suddenly gritted his teeth and said: "The reason why Erchen fully supports Li Yanqing's army expansion is because Erchen decided to let Li Yanqing send troops to destroy Western Xia. ”

Zhao Ji was stunned for a moment, and only asked after a while, "What are you talking about?" ”

"Father, the Western Xia is actually extremely weak, and it can't afford to support the war with the Great Song Dynasty at all, so he withdrew his troops from Xihe Road to seek peace, if it wasn't for the Jin soldiers eyeing the Hexi Road at that time, Li Yanqing's army could even fight to Xingqing Mansion."

"Then you're not afraid that Jin Bing will take the opportunity to invade Hedong Road and Shaanxi Road this time?"

"Father Qi, the son has received accurate information, the main force of the Jin soldiers is fighting against the tribes of Mobei, and Liu Yu of the Central Plains and the Gaoqing descendants of Hebei have not yet had time to establish their own armies, this is an excellent opportunity, if Wanyan Xian also wants to tear up the agreement, then we can also justifiably go north to recover the Central Plains and Shandong."

Zhao Ji took a few steps with his hands down, and asked again, "When will you send troops to Western Xia?" ”

"The plan is for next spring."

Zhao Ji narrowed his eyes again, "What if Li Yanqing fails to attack Western Xia?" ”

"Li Yanqing made a military order to his sons, and if he failed to destroy Western Xia, he was willing to resign from his post as the envoy of Sichuan and Shaanxi."

Zhao Ji nodded, "Okay!" If it is really to attack Western Xia, this time I will promise you to deal with the affairs of Bashu, and I will not interfere again, but if the attack on Western Xia fails, Li Yanqing must resign from all military positions, this is the third chapter of the covenant between you and me, you must remember clearly. ”

Zhao Gou took a deep breath, "Erchen understands!" ”

"Go ahead! I want to rest. ”

Zhao Gou slowly retreated, Zhao Ji stood in front of the window with his hands in his hands, he was also very entangled in his heart, of course he knew the purpose of his son's war against Western Xia, once he really destroyed Western Xia, it would greatly increase his prestige, and it would not be easy to abolish him at that time.

But attacking Western Xia is a double-sided sword, if the attack on Western Xia fails, it will also be a heavy blow to his son's monarchy, and it will be more justified to abolish him at that time.

It was this kind of double-sided sword that made Zhao Ji really uneasy in his heart, and it was difficult to calm down for a long time.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhao Gou held a small court meeting, and he officially expressed his position at the court meeting, agreeing to Li Yanqing's second plan, the monopoly division of the Bashu Third Road was controlled by the Sichuan-Shaanxi Economic Strategy for a period of five years, and the other 30 million yuan was used as the military expenses of the Northwest Third Road, requiring them to make every effort to prepare for war and build an elite army.

This decision did not attract any more opposition, and all the ministers knew that the official family could make such a will, and it must have reached some kind of agreement with the emperor.