The New Deal has been implemented for so many years, and Wang Gongchen and Chong Shiheng have participated in it, and Xu Ping said that they understood it after thinking about it a little. The burden of the frontier www.biquge.info the pen and the court used to feel that it was too much to bear, but in fact it was not that there was a lot of money spent on the borderland, but that the cost of spending money was too high. Shaanxi Road raises a forbidden army with an annual fee of more than 50 yuan, and nearly 100 yuan when it is high, in fact, the forbidden army soldiers only have a few dollars in their hands? The money is used for material collection, transportation, trading, and so on.

With the current productivity conditions and business environment, even after the implementation of Xu Ping's new policy for several years, the whole country is far from forming a unified market. The market is not unified, Shaanxi Road is relatively independent, and the imperial court spends money here, which is really to transport money, plus tea, salt and silk for several materials. Under the law of entering the middle of the country, there is too much money on Shaanxi Road, prices are rising, and the more money is invested, the less the same amount of money will play a role, and the marginal effect will be. What is needed is materials, and what is shipped is money, which makes the money more and more useless, and it is even more necessary to invest more money, a vicious circle.

The national market is not unified, but the money is unified, and a large amount of money is spent on Shaanxi Road, just like adding leverage to drain the wealth of other places. This wasted wealth was not spent on war materials, but only in pursuit of more money. The huge financial burden caused by the Northwest War was not that there were too many materials used in the war, but that the economic supply of materials was too inefficient. Over-reliance on businessmen shows its consequences at this time.

In this sense, historically, the Song Dynasty used iron money in the Northwest Theater, including Shaanxi Road and Hedong Road, as well as the Sichuan Gorge Fourth Road, not only because of the lack of copper, but also because of economic considerations. These roads are the main sources and consumption of materials for the war in the northwest, and it is a wise decision to let them use iron money to form a relatively independent economic zone. Of course, there was a specific effect, but it could not make the Song Dynasty withstand the financial impact of the war.

Sorting out all aspects of the economic cycle, comprehensively using commercial means and administrative means, and reducing the circulation and transaction costs of the economy are what Xu Ping has been doing in recent years, and he has been persistently instilling in his colleagues. People like Wang Gongchen and Chong Shiheng, who have been by Xu Ping's side for many years, have slowly become accustomed to this kind of thinking.

It is not as much money as imagined to really open up to the outside world, and if the economy here is revitalized and linked with the economy of the whole country, it may still be a positive return.

If you don't suck the blood of the imperial court's finances, you can also bring tea and silk to the surrounding areas. If you give them money, you can buy those good things that you can't even dream of, which is completely different from the previous requisition of soldiers.

In this world, it is not good to only pay without asking for anything in return, people are not satisfied, and the promotion of rice and hatred is just a metaphor for individuals, and the consequences of using it on the country and tribe are even more serious. Those who do not have their hearts set to the court will raise terrible enemies. The more they responded, the more the surrounding countries felt weak and easy to bully. After all, no matter how much you give, how much can someone rob?

Xu Ping's words about the counties and their places, and the people, are not just governed like the mainland, but also to connect the place with the economy of the whole country. Accepting this, the people who accepted this and lived a good life not by the gift of the imperial court, but by the wealth brought by the economic exchange with the whole country. Economic unification, cultural unification, and changing customs are the strategic policies for Western Tibet.

After talking about the northern part of the Qingtang Dynasty, Lu Fang said again: "The western part of the Qingtang Dynasty is the Uighurs, so there is no need to say more. In the southwest is Achai and other Tibetan tribes, with many clans and no leader, nominally under the orders of the Gang Guy, but in fact they do their own thing. To the south is the city of Xige, and the leader is the elder brother of the Gang Guy, who has a solid and mediocre throat, and the well water of the Guy is not against the river water. Liu Tuntian in the east has already talked about Kuozhou, Hezhou, and Miaochuan, and I will not repeat it. The only thing to emphasize is that this trip to Qingtang to cross the Yellow River, now the only way for the army to march is the Bingling Temple Bridge in Hezhou, which is the most convenient way to Michuan. Liu Tuntian has already said that now the leader of Miaochuan is secretly communicating with the party with a golden dragon, and he wants to pass through the area of Luohe Huang, and they are the ones who are most likely to cause chaos. Michuan and Lanzhou are connected as one, and now Lanzhou has been controlled by the party, and the chief Yu Zanghua Ma married the daughter of Yuan Hao, who is the minion of the party. The party owned Lanzhou, thus blocking the road between Hexi and the imperial court, forcing Miaochuan in the east, and pressing Hezhou and Didao in the south to block the Xia realm. In contrast, the territory of Huizhou is full of mountains, and there are few roads, only the Tiandu Village built by the party in Tiandu Mountain, blocking the road from Jingyuan Road to Xiliang. All in all, if you want to pass through the Huangqing Tang Dynasty of the Luohe River, the key point is in Miaochuan, and if you want to attack the party in the north, the key point is in Lanzhou. As soon as Lanzhou is passed, it will be able to connect with the Zhufan Department in Hexi, and it can go down the river to hit Huizhou. Since then, there has been an avenue leading to the Hulu River. ”

After speaking, Lu Fang sighed and crossed his hand to Xu Ping: "This time I went to Qingtang, and the lower official has already drawn a map of the road." Only Miaochuan was hostile to the imperial court, and he did not respect Buddhism, so he did not go, and the path was not very clear. ”

Xu Ping nodded, asked Lu Fang to sit down, and said, "The rice should be eaten one bite at a time, and now these are enough." ”

Standing up and looking at everyone, Xu Ping said: "The ancients had clouds, the country was small and not humble, the strength was small but not afraid of the strong, the unreasonable and humiliated the neighbors, and the greedy and clumsy friends could die." The party has been expanding its territory to the west for decades, and they have already offended the Qiang in Hexi and Longyou. Yuan Hao called the emperor, not only offended the dynasty, but also called the Khitan the north, which also offended them. Now we are at war with the party, the Khitan is sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, they will not help the dynasty, and they will not help the party. Yuan Hao is surrounded by enemies on all sides, the country is weak, and he is already in a certain place of death. Linfu, Yanyan, Huanqing three roads, although when the party is frontal, but the surrounding mountains and rivers are broken, grain and grass transportation is inconvenient, this dynasty to attack from there, in fact, it is extremely difficult. Only Jingyuan Road has a convenient road to clear the customs, and there is a Huluchuan valley to the Yellow River, which is a real avenue that can attack the party. However, when this dynasty came out of Huluchuan, there was a threat from Huizhou, so it was necessary to occupy Huizhou first. And this dynasty has no road to Huizhou, unable to supply money and grain, and can't hold it if it is occupied, so if you want to occupy Huizhou, you must first occupy Lanzhou. All in all, in order to truly solve the problem of the party in the northwest, the army should go out of Huluchuan, and if you want to make this road worry-free, you must occupy Lanzhou. We have been fighting with the party for decades, and we always wanted to use razing to control the party, so that Hexi and Hehuang attacked the party's flank. Facts have proved that this will not work, and the Tibetan Ministry did not do anything about the party item, but let the party item almost swallow it up. When we went to Qinzhou, the reason why we wanted to open up to the west was that expanding the land was secondary, and the real purpose was to open up the road to the north. ”

Seeing everyone nodding, Xu Ping said again: "I have made it clear just now that the core of the Northwest Strategy is in Lanzhou, and the core of Qingtang is in Miaochuan, and the two are now connected together, which is what we will do in the next year or two." Michuan is an Aran ethnic group, and unlike the surrounding Tibetan tribes, they do not believe in Buddhism, but believe in Bon. Then we can appease Zhufanqiang and devote our main energies to dealing with the party items in Miaochuan and Lanzhou. - Note that Fusui is not forbearance, there is no force to deterre, after all, it is unreliable. This year has passed the halfway point, and the rest of the days are mainly spent on laying a good foundation for westward expansion. The general arrangement was as follows: In June, the Marshal's Mansion organized the armies of Qinzhou and Longzhou to conduct a drill in Guanshan to reorganize their combat strength. The most important purpose is to properly manage the command of each army, not to be at a loss in the event of a war, and each army must be clear about what it should do, how to do it, and how to do it well. Beginning in July, the Xuanwei Army's Guiming Shenwu conducted training on the Qinzhou Fan Army, so that the Fan soldiers could become combatable soldiers. Another is to operate the Guwei place, reorganize the Tibetan department, build a walled fort, and merge the clan accounts, and replace them with the township system. ”