No. 389 Look for Cai Dao

The task given to Yang Wei by Zhao Xu is to find Cai Dao.

Cai Dao, Zhao Xu actually hated this Luo pot very much in his heart, and wished that the annoying guy would die sooner. can't stand his biological mother Zhu Defei and several sisters and sisters like him very much. Moreover, although the little emperor is young and has just become a pro-government, after so many years of forbearance and study, he finally knows the priority of things.

After the period of mourning for the Empress Dowager, Zhao Xu had secretly instructed the Imperial City Department to secretly investigate the Gyeonggi region in private, up to the treasury of Bianliang City, down to the treasury of the subordinate county and the grain storage in Changping. The reason why the scope is so small is not that the Imperial City Division does not have enough manpower, nor is it that he does not want to check the situation in various places.

Instead, Zhao Xu has learned from some officials who have taken the initiative to take refuge in him that in the past few years since he ascended the throne, the problem of corruption among officials in various places has intensified.

Fortunately, the results summarized after the inventory finally made Zhao Xu breathe a sigh of relief. Today, the entire Gyeonggi region has enough food for the people here to feed for a year.

Although it is still far from the standard of 'state-owned three-year reserves', as long as he finds out that Luo pot, he will definitely think of a way to solve the shortage of grain in the world.

Bianliang City has a population of more than one million, and in the eyes of later generations of China, it is only the population size of a second- or third-tier city. However, in this era, a population of more than one million is undoubtedly the world's largest metropolis.

It is no exaggeration to say that if Bianliang City is stable and the Gyeonggi region is stable, then the entire Great Song Dynasty will also be stable.

Although after eight years, the forbidden army troops that gradually improved under Wang Anshi have gradually become slaves of the royal family and princes and ministers, but these people are soldiers who have been trained for many years.

The Great Song Dynasty could have bandits, bandits and horse thieves who gathered in the mountains and forests like Hua Qiyi and Mu Laozhai Lord, but today's Great Song Dynasty has absolutely no soil for rebellion.

If Fang La, Song Jiang and others in the Song Huizong period dared to come forward, it would not take half a year at most to completely wipe them out. Only Tong Guan, the waste wood eunuch, has been tossed for so long, even if he puts the deceased Li Xian in Tong Guan's position, he does much better than this bearded eunuch.

In fact, Zhao Xu also knows very well in his heart that his kingdom, after the toss of conservative forces in the past few years, has completely reached the moment of life and death.

The situation that Zhao Xu is facing now is actually roughly the same as when Song Shenzong succeeded to the throne. Song Renzong seems to be extremely wise, but in fact, since LĂź Yijian was forced to step down, the Great Song Dynasty has entered a period of pathological development, with a complete imbalance in fiscal revenue and expenditure, and revenue is far less than expenditure. You must know that during the Renzong Dynasty, the forbidden army in Bianliang City alone reached 800,000, including the border troops stationed on the border of the Western Xia State and the Great Liao State.

There are also a large number of officials with and without official positions, and the sum of these people's salaries is not inferior to the expenses of the 800,000 forbidden army.

Song Renzong was hungry at night and wanted to eat something, but in the end he didn't want to spend more and endured it. However, Wen Yanbo and Han Qi and others are at home, eating Liang meat, dancing and singing, and they are extremely poor and luxurious. Such a deformed economy, coupled with the toss of the Song Yingzong Dynasty for several years, left Song Shenzong with almost an inner treasury that could walk horses and a treasury that was on the surface.

It is no wonder that at the beginning of Song Shenzong's tenure, he would be so eager to support Wang Anshi to preside over the law change.

It is no wonder that some people in later generations will say that Song Shenzong is the king of aggregation, and Wang Anshi is the minister of aggregation.

Now, the situation of the Great Song Dynasty is only supported by encouragement under the rule of the three prime ministers.

Wen Yanbo and Lu Gongshu were able to survive in the first five years of Yuanyou, which was completely thanks to the blessings of Wang Anshi, Cai Dao, Cai Qu and Zhang Dian. Without the accumulation of the three ministers of the reform faction, and without the cultivation method that Cai Dao took the initiative to donate, Yuanfeng accumulated enough food in the last two or three years. These two incompetent prime ministers simply couldn't survive the day when they threw the pot to Lu Dafang.

Will Yang Wei's trip go well?

Naturally, it won't go too well.

After all, Cai Dao was 'captured' by the bandits and went up the mountain, and if he didn't have a good reason, he would never take the initiative to show his head. Of course, Cai Dao has already thought of a solution to this matter.

However, Cai Dao still decided to dry Zhao Xu, who had just grasped the power, and let him know that his Luo pot was important to him, the emperor. If Zhao Xu still wanted to despise himself so much at the beginning, Cai Dao didn't mind taking this opportunity to completely get rid of the shackles of the Zhao Song Dynasty on him at this time.

That's right, Cai Dao's age, the Zhao Song Dynasty, and the Cai family in Xiaocili were all shackles that Cai Dao had on his body before.

He is too young to be taken seriously, and naturally no one will pay attention to his opinions, suggestions and abilities, and Cai Dao himself has many things and ambitions that cannot be put into action.

Today's Great Song Dynasty is like a sick old man, who changes the law to Wang Anshi, tossing too much, but it will be too much, and it will speed up the time for the Zhao Song Dynasty to self-destruct.

The emperors of the Zhao and Song dynasties emphasized literature over military force, which had reached the extreme, although it could prevent the rebellion of his courtiers. However, the consequences of this are extremely serious.

In Chinese history, the Han dynasty was overthrown, and it was nothing more than two forms.

First, in the last years of the dynasty, natural disasters and man-made disasters overthrew the old dynasty by peasant rebels, and the heroes who rose up in it were exterminating these rebels and establishing a new dynasty with their subordinates.

The founding emperors Liu Bang, Liu Xiu, and Li Yuan were all the same.

Second, the last emperors of the dynasty took the initiative to weaken the dynasty's forces, giving the alien races in the north an opportunity. As a result, the old dynasty perished at the hands of a foreign race.

Historically, the Western Jin Dynasty perished, and the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty perished. After Emperor Sima Yan of the Jin Dynasty destroyed the Wu State, he thought that the world was worry-free, so he dismissed the soldiers under the rule of the county, which led to the later Wuhu Rebellion.

The Northern and Southern Song Dynasty is even more ridiculous, luring wolves into the house twice in a row.

The Northern Song Dynasty was Lianjin Kengliao, and as a result, Tong Guan and Cai Dao's cousin Cai You led the troops to prepare to subdue Youzhou, but they were beaten all over the field by the weak Liao State, which also made the Jin people see the weakness of the Song Dynasty. This also indirectly led to the later Northern Hunt of the Second Sect of Huiqin.

The Southern Song Dynasty lent the road to Torrey, and as a result, without the barrier of the Jin Kingdom and the Western Xia Kingdom in front of it, the Southern Song Dynasty also perished.

The false way is extinguished, the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, this is all a story that happened thousands of years ago, during the Warring States period.

There are so many well-educated people in the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty, but they can't see through such a result, and it must be said that the cynical culture started from the Song Dynasty at all.

If you don't die, you won't die.

What's more, Cai Dao, an illiterate historian, knows that following Zhao Xu will not lead to any good results.

Song Huizong is Zhao Xu's younger brother, so speaking of which, little Zhao Xu will not live long at all, and he has no heirs. Once a son of heaven and a courtier, not to mention, the new emperor who will succeed in the future is still the famous Dujun Song Huizong in history.

Speaking of which, Cai Dao might as well announce to the outside world that he himself has died.

After eight years of disappearing, how many people in the world will still remember the world-famous 'fortune boy'?