With Zong Ze here, the Great Song Dynasty will be able to truly integrate the long-separated Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures into the territory in the shortest possible time.

After determining that the sixteen states of Yanyun returned to the Central Plains, Zhao Ji of Song Huizong and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were ecstatic, Zhao Ji rewarded the ministers, and fulfilled his promise, named Zhang Shuye and Zong Ze as "King of Changping County" and "King of Anping County", and engraved "Re-restoration of Yanyun Tablet", and deliberately emphasized the great achievements of Sun Hui, the "Qilin Immortal", in the inscription.

For Sun Hui, these are nothing, in these days of restoring Yanyun's hometown, he supervised the operation of the Great Song Dynasty and observed the movements of the Jin Kingdom.

After the Song army recovered the sixteen states of Yanyun, the government and the opposition were extremely excited, and Zhao Gou, the king of Kang, even proposed to take advantage of the situation to exterminate the Jin people and incorporate the hometown of Liao into the Great Song Dynasty, which was supported by many courtiers, but Sun Hui secretly vetoed it through the prime minister He Li and the deputy general Sun Fu.

With the current economic strength after being devastated by the war, supporting the recovery of the sixteen states of Yanyun is already the limit of expansion, and it is impossible to support the war attrition of seizing the Liao State, even if the Liao State is taken, it is not able to govern it, and if it is not good, it will fall into the quagmire of war and cannot extricate itself.

This is like a person who is weak and sick and has not fully recovered his strength, and suddenly eats too much food, not only will he "indigestion", but he may even die at once.

If there is a buffer time of a few years, it is possible for him to ease up the Song Dynasty and eat the land of the original Liao State.

In his opinion, the biggest enemy of the current Song Dynasty is no longer the Jin people, but himself.

After Zhang Shuye led the army to the expedition, Sun Hui was always worried that the army's salary was insufficient and that it would be difficult to replenish the grain and grass, but Prime Minister He Li swore to him this time that there would be no problems with the army's military supplies.

Within a month, He Li told Sun Hui that he had raised 16 million yuan for the army. Sun Hui was taken aback and asked him where the money came from, and He Li replied that it was a tax increase.

Sun Hui, who is familiar with history, knows that in the early days of the Northern Song Dynasty, the two incomes of salt and wine were only 5 million guan, and so far, the total income of these two incomes can reach more than 43 million guan, an increase of more than eight times.

The current Song Dynasty was able to increase the non-agricultural tax so much, and even let the non-agricultural tax reach more than 80 percent of the entire tax revenue, not because it is richer than before, but because it is essentially a greater degree of exploitation.

In the Song Dynasty, the price of wine was too high and could not be sold, so in order to collect the predetermined amount of tax, the people had to be forced to buy wine. In some places, the level of residents is determined according to their property, and the upper, middle, and lower households each stipulate how much money they must pay to buy as much alcohol as they want. What's more, they forced the people to pay for the tastings.

Sun Hui remembers that there are extremely bizarre records in some historical materials: Dangyang County "every time a household is taxed in summer and autumn, and ordered to pay the wine tasting money first, depending on the amount of family business, from 500 to 3,000, although the tenants of the land and overseas Chinese send it to the landlord also make the landlord recognize, and the wine tasting money twice a year is nearly 2,000 yuan." In other words, the tasting money has actually become an additional tax on top of the local two taxes. However, it is not clear from the historical data whether the residents pay the "wine tasting money" and whether they can taste the wine, but in some places they pay the so-called "wine money", it can be said with certainty that they cannot eat wine, and it has only become one of the benefits of the Song Dynasty government's "don't ask for lessons".

Those who can taste the wine are lucky, and the shadow of the wine ordered more directly is not visible, and the money is directly distributed to the people, whether you eat or drink, you must pay. It even developed to the point of directly blocking the road and robbing it: "Tufang Town, Jinxian County, Longxing Prefecture, 'has dozens of residents, scarce business travel, a strong name called the town, and a liquor tax office'"; Through the one-year-old income, the town's liquor tax amounted to more than 2,000. So, how did these two thousand or so pieces come about? "The so-called winemakers, at the beginning of the brew, and there is no sale, is tied to the level of the town's households, and the order to pay money, a household or forty or fifty wen, or thirty or twenty wen, or seven or eight wen, thinking that it is a monthly solution, and the age is only a thousand hundred." Although the income is not much, "there is a liquor tax officer in this town, who has stopped several generations, and dozens of evil minions, all of whom have encroached on dozens of households, and even weaved village hooligans, seized business travelers, and even intercepted passenger boats twenty or thirty miles away." From apportionment to blatant robbery of merchant boats, appalling means have been created for "don't ask for profit".

Moreover, the Song Dynasty was a time when the monopoly income directly controlled by the government was higher, and the income from commercial taxes was rarely higher than that of the monopoly. In most cases, commercial tax revenues are hardly on the same level as monopoly revenues.

Some literati even said: "Since ancient times, the wealth of the people is not as much as that of this dynasty, the world's taxes and wine affairs are everywhere, and such as 21 taxes and 35 wine affairs in the CD government, and their ages are more than 400,000 yuan. As for the Jin people, there are also the so-called general system of money, moon piles and the like. The so-called moon pile is particularly meaningless, and the names and names are all in addition to the regular endowment, in addition to the system, and there are other clever plans, but they are all expedient and last resort. ”

This kind of exploitation shows the heavy tax burden of the people in the Song Dynasty, and also makes Sun Hui see that the life of the people in the Song Dynasty is not as happy as some people in later generations described.

In fact, during the first Northern Expedition to Yanyun (at that time, Zhao Ji was also in power), Prime Minister Wang Huang kicked aside the Privy Council, set up economic care houses in the three provinces, specifically raised funds for the Northern Expedition, and ordered every adult male in the Song Dynasty to pay free money, which he scraped to 6.2 million yuan. After thinking about it, he felt that he was still unsatisfied, and he was going to cross the Yellow River during the Northern Expedition, so by the way, he would also repair the Yellow River. Repairing the Yellow River is beneficial in the whole country, such as Huai, Zhejiang, Jiang, Lake, Ling, Shu and other places, and the men who are not close to the Yellow River are also responsible. At least 20 per person, so he scraped more than 17 million. Of course, the money didn't work as well as it should. And He Li's means are worse than Wang Huang, but 16 million is also a big number. It was with the support of this huge amount of money that the Song army was able to have enough weapons and materials to confront the Jin army, and achieved an unprecedented victory.

But these also made Sun Hui see a clear truth, that is, although the commodity economy in the Song Dynasty was highly developed, the disintegrating power of highly developed commerce on society was also huge.

The reason for this understanding is inseparable from his deep understanding of the laws of the demise of Chinese dynasties.

And the demise of every dynasty is basically such a law.