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"I'm a literati, but I'm not. Therefore, it is inconvenient for me to come forward, and this matter must be left to you and others to handle before we can achieve great success. ”

Yao Pingzhong and Lin Lingsu looked at each other, and couldn't figure out for a moment what this had to do with literati or not.

Liu Qi already understood what Fan Da Lao meant.

Stand up, respectfully, and reach the ground, "Elder Fan is high-spirited, and the kid sincerely admires." This matter is very implicated, dare our generation disobey? ”

Yao Pingzhong still didn't understand, and looked at Liu Qi with a confused expression.

Lin Lingsu has already realized something.

"Yes, too! Yes also! My Great Song Dynasty first worships literature, and then worships Taoism. If Elder Fan came forward, this Dr. Wu would probably want to hide his secrets and refuse to do his best. ”

glanced at Liu Qi deeply.

It was this Liu Qi's origin that made Lin Lingsu suddenly figure out this joint.

Liu Qi is from a different background than Yao Pingzhong.

Yao Pingzhong was born in the local Volunteer Society in northern Shaanxi, and he is a grassroots. The people of the Great Song Dynasty, whether they were powerful or commoners, liked to form gangs.

Zhao Guanjia first set up a football non-company in Beijing, called "Yuanyuan Society".

At the border gates in various places, the powerful people of the people all learned the bow and ran the so-called "bow and arrow club" by themselves.

The folk bow and arrow society first appeared in Yanmen Pass, Shanxi, and the Song Liao front line in Hejian Prefecture.

Guy's officers and soldiers were ineffective in guarding the gates, and they were unable to stop the Khitan cavalry that was marching south to fight the grass valley. So the Zhuang family spontaneously organized. Every household has its own short bow, and when there is an enemy attack, it will be called. Between the villagers and neighbors, they help each other and cooperate in defense.

Later, the business of the Song-Liao mutual market became bigger and bigger, and the elders on both sides felt that this cross-border trade was very cool, and the matter of fighting grass valley was strictly forbidden by the governors of both sides and did not happen again.

This folk bow and arrow club has no enemies, and gradually evolves into a violent organization of the Black and Evil Society that runs rampant in the township.

The Shijiazhuang and Zhujiazhuang in the Water Margin are all like this.

During the time of Song Zhezong, the power of this bow and arrow society began to expand significantly, and he dared to gather villagers, violently resist rent, and confront the officials and soldiers.

As a result, the government regarded the folk bow and arrow societies in Hebei and Shandong as bandits and forcibly exterminated.

The situation in the northwest is completely different from that in Hebei and Shandong.

Fan Zhongyan was the first to see the benefits of the Volunteers. vigorously supported this militia armed force. The number is "Brave". The government subsidizes their daily needs and weapons. The word Volunteer Army was coined by Lao Lao Fan at this time.

For more than 100 years, the war between the Song and Western Xia continued. So this brave man in the northwest did not become a thief. On the contrary, it took on a considerable part of the combat mission of protecting the homeland. As a result, the Western Army became stronger and stronger. As a result, the soldiers and horses of Hejian Province weakened.

The Western Xia border pass has been fighting for a hundred years, and among the brave, there are also superior.

Among them, those who are great in stature and skilled in war have also been promoted to envoys of all sizes.

The envoy was a low-ranking military attache of the Great Song Dynasty. Team generals, subordinate generals, preparation generals, deputy generals, and regular generals, so they can be promoted all the way, and finally they can be promoted to Xiu Wulang, and then promoted to Wu Yilang and Cheng Xuanyang.

Promoted to Cheng Xuanxuan Martial Arts Doctor, he basically rose to the top.

The apex of this promotion tree is Cheng Xuanxuan's martial arts doctor. At this level, there is no way to rise. Unless you change jobs laterally. This horizontal transfer is called a horizontal transfer. The emperor personally issued a decree and was elected into the emperor's personal guard system. It's hard. As a rule, a martial arts doctor needs to have seven years of experience, and he must also be a side officer, and there are more than five people to be promoted, and he can be transferred to the commander of Yao County only after passing the grinding and auditing. Niu Gao later climbed to the position of commander of Yaojun step by step.

If Yao Pingzhong didn't have the opportunity to face the saint and gain the emperor's favor, he would basically end up in the class of martial arts doctors. Of course, if you are like Niu Gao, follow Grandpa Yue's side, stand alone in a big battle, make a resounding reputation, and attract the attention of the emperor.

Liu Qi's situation is completely opposite.

Liu Qi's father was originally a festival envoy!

This Liu Qi can actually go to study since he was a child, and he was admitted to the Jinshi as a civil official. Civilian officials are much more popular than military generals.

Maybe it's Liu's father and son who love the country and the frontier, or maybe it's because they are good at martial arts by nature, this Liu Qi has followed his father since he was a child, killed and killed, and walked such a road of martial arts generals.

Liu Qi is not like Yao Pingzhong, after he arrives at Cheng Xuanxuan's martial arts doctor, he will face the dilemma of being rampant and unable to change jobs.

Liu Qi's name should be heard by the sky, not too easy.

The emperor already knew his father. Just kidding, does the Great Song Dynasty have a lot of festival envoys? There are only a few of them. Therefore, Liu Qi will not have the problem of being eye-catching and famous at that time. He can be rampant at any time, and he can be transferred to command envoys and even jiedu envoys.

In this way, Lin Lingsu scrutinized the strange relationship between the civil and military forces of the Great Song Dynasty, and immediately understood what Fan Deru meant.

The subtext here is very touching, and it can only be said in words, not in words.

What does Elder Fan mean...... I clearly think that the civil officials will do this big thing! Dr. Wu's related salt refining and nitrate refining is very important, and the military attache will understand. This case is in the hands of civil officials, who are afraid that it will be delayed, shelved, or even maliciously buried.

As long as a civil official who has gone to the border will understand this truth.

Nowadays, the Great Song Dynasty is based on business, and attaches great importance to solving problems by commercial means. In a word, as long as you can do things with money, why think about other solutions? Then use money to solve it! The worst thing about the Great Song Dynasty is money.

Therefore, the officers and soldiers at all levels of the Western Army, if they want to eat salt now, they don't need to carry heavy soldiers and horses to help them transport salt.

The sergeant of the Western Army is a colonel, and he pays for salt by himself!

The state approves a detailed account, and the cost of transporting salt from far and near by the official salt merchant is clearly examined and the school is clear, and a national price is given. For example, in a certain place, where salt transportation is convenient, soldiers in that place are given a monthly salt subsidy of 20 wen per month. In a certain place, it was difficult to transport salt, and the local soldiers were given a monthly allowance of 100 mosquitoes for salt.

The soldiers took the money of the state and went to buy salt. The official salt merchants knew that there was a reliable market here, and their enthusiasm was high, and they ran to sell it enthusiastically. With such subjective initiative, the efficiency is much more reliable than that of the logistics and transportation brigade organized by the government.

The transport team formed in the name of labor was naturally full of complaints along the way, and they had to be whipped to catch up with the journey.

Make carrots with the profit-seeking nature of businessmen and induce them. This is a scrappy spirit, and there is no need for a whip to urge it.

In addition, there is another general benefit of this commercial model, which is tax creation. The salt merchants' tax is also extremely considerable.

Therefore, some people in later generations boasted about how brilliant the Great Song Dynasty was and how considerable the financial income was, and they would be angry by others. This official salt merchant coupled with the routine of collecting taxes, why does it always feel a bit cheating? This money was originally sent by the state to buy salt for the border sergeants. The right to buy official salt was also granted by the government to a very small number of outstanding merchants. Sell the salt of the state, collect the money from the state, and then pay heavy taxes. The tax collected in this way seems to have no GDP at all, and it is completely an inflated circulation bubble, which is purely good-looking?

Whether this bubble economy is good or bad, Lin Lingsu doesn't understand.

But Lin Lingsu understands very well that the enthusiasm of this profit-driven salt merchant group is much higher than that of the transportation team in the labor mode. It can even be crazy!

Cutting off people's financial means is like killing their parents.

The Great Song Dynasty used this commercial model to send various supplies including salt to the border passes, and it has not been ten or eight years, and a full set of upstream and downstream interest groups have already been formed.

If you cut it off all at once, many people who have worked hard for generations and gradually matured, such a stable trade route, many people will want to kill you in minutes! It's not just businessmen whose interests have been infringed up who want to buy and kill you! The government can't wait for you to die quickly, because the tax has been reduced by you!

So Boss Fan is wise.

This matter really cannot be left to the civilian officials. Civilian officials, not alone in the fighting. That's all a gang of interests. Domino effect. In minutes, you can turn a good thing that benefits the country and the people into a serious crime that brings disaster to the country and the people.

This matter can only be handed over to the military attaché.

Only the military attaché's heart understands that the front-line officers and soldiers who were originally able to step on the four-stone heavy crossbow, because of the lack of salt intake for many years, were so soft that they couldn't open the two-stone light crossbow, with a depressed expression of "I can't figure it out" and "I can't die", thousands of them fell under the iron hooves of the barbarians, and died in battle with hatred, how sad the commander's heart would be!

There are even more painful things, in fact, the elite of the Western Army has long understood this truth. In fact, they have already prepared for the current enemy, and they would rather die than take enough poisonous salt to fight to the end with a strong enemy. However, this enemy is cavalry, but my Song is scarce of war horse resources.

The barbarian soldiers and horses shook a shot and ran away quickly, and in order to temporarily explode the combat effectiveness, the poisonous salt you ate was eaten in vain.

Dr. Wu's Dan Dao experiment, once successful, would never dare to let the civil officials know about it first.

The generals have to be given priority to master this doorway.

Only after the majority of officers and men at the grassroots level have mastered this trick will civilian officials not be able to change the fait accompli, even if they have a monstrous plan.

So in this matter, Liu Qi, who was born in such a big official family as Jiedu, was the first to realize.

Lin Lingsu followed closely and understood.

Yao Pingzhong's status is low, and he has been fighting and killing at the grassroots level all his life, and he has not been on any formal stage. I have never had the sad experience of being overshadowed by a high-ranking civil official in my life, and I was stunned for a while, and I didn't know why.

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