"The party is a people who plunder the surname, without any bottom line and principles. The Ningxia Plain and the Hetao Plain, which occupy enough to feed millions of people, even harass the Great Song Dynasty border every year. It is no wonder that the Great Song Dynasty is deadlocked and refuses to open the border market. The strategic intention to starve the Western Xia is a bit level. But we're sorry for the insensitive. It's easy to kill the partymen, just turn all their cavalry into infantry.

I have here the strongest horse plague vaccine and pathogen in the future, as long as our men send this to their cavalry barracks and destroy all their mobility, we can win the siege and infantry field battles. ”

"Lao Wang, your special warfare theory is too dangerous, if it is not well controlled, our cavalry will also have problems, the vaccine industry has just started, and there are not enough people to produce it, so how can there be production capacity for horses. If it spreads, can you afford to be responsible for the death of all the horses in the world? Wu Qi immediately objected.

"You too, you spend too much time in the Special Warfare Research Laboratory and the Cutting-edge Weapons Research Institute every day, and the normal teaching tasks are entrusted to those subordinates, and you, the dean of the military branch, are very incompetent." Zhao Shouzhong criticized Wang Xinyu's mistakes.

"You also know that military affairs are all enthusiastic about hot-blooded men, especially military houses like me. Where is the time to teach? I have handed over the affairs of the security group to my subordinates, and I haven't been to the headquarters for more than 50 days. Those trivial matters are not as important as developing Tesla's death-light weapon. ”

"Don't talk nonsense, the protests of the Chemical Materials Academy are almost full of your mailbox, and the mailbox of the Military Research Institute is also full, you don't just want to dig other people's students to do your own research, and you don't cultivate those who specialize in robbing others, what's the difference between this and Western Xia." Li Jiji protested against Wang Xinyu's domineering too often in various colleges, and criticized him dissatisfied.

"Xixia is just a ripe peach, and we can eat it whenever we want. You don't have to worry, now is not the time, if you act rashly and break a big thing, you really can't afford it, otherwise you want to retire early, it's just a matter of Li Ji's words. So don't make small moves, and don't do it with crooked brains. Otherwise you look good. Bai Jia also warned Wang Xinyu not to go too far.

"Don't you like smuggling? Can smuggling bring down a country with a predominantly nomadic economy? Sun Chang took a sip of the newly developed mangosteen fruit powder and said vaguely.

"It's not impossible, it's just that it's hard for such a self-sufficient, backward economy to cause turmoil because of the almost negligible disappearance of industry. Lee Ki once said that the more backward regions and countries are, the more difficult it is to conquer. This is just a derivative of the theory that bare feet are not afraid to wear shoes. I can't rely on smuggling alone, at most I can destroy its commerce and handicrafts, and if we want the Western Xia to disappear, we must destroy the insatiable party members, nobles, and royal families. No, then there is no end to it. ”

"Then you mean to let your baby special operations unit go out for the first time?" Mr. Yang disdained to sarcastically mock Lao Wang's stinginess.

"Is the army called the army if it doesn't see blood? The countless operations to suppress bandits and neutralize competitors in the smuggling industry have long been revealed. This is only the first time that they have blinded their dogs in front of opponents at the national level. ”

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The Dangxiang ethnic group originally lived in the Songpan Plateau in Sichuan, and moved to northern Shaanxi during the Tang Dynasty. Because of his meritorious work in quelling the chaos, he was named the envoy of the Xiazhou Festival by the Tang Emperor, and successively submitted to the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty. After the Xiazhou regime was annexed by the Northern Song Dynasty, Li Jiqian was unwilling to surrender and re-established the state, and obtained the canonization of the Liao Emperor. Li Jiqian adopted the method of Lianliao to the Song Dynasty, and successively occupied Lanzhou and the Hexi Corridor area. In 1038 AD, Li Yuanhao called the emperor to establish the state, that is, Xia Jingzong, and the Western Xia was officially founded. From then on, the regime established by the party members began an era of internal chaos, bloodshed, intrigue and murderous dynastic rule.

The Western Xia were roughly victorious in the Song-Xia War and the Liaoxia War, forming a situation in which the Three Kingdoms were in full swing. After the death of Xia Jingzong, the power was in the hands of the emperor's empress dowager and the mother party, which is known as the period of the mother party's dictatorship. The Western Xia was in civil strife because of the confrontation between the imperial party and the mother party, and the Northern Song Dynasty took the opportunity to attack Xia many times. The Western Xia successfully resisted and routed the Song army, but the loss of Hengshan left a hole in the defensive line.

The Western Xia belonged to the Pan-Han coalition politics, dominated by the Dangxiang clan, supplemented by the Han and other ethnic groups. The system gradually changed from the dual politics of Fan and Han to the unified Han law system. The imperial power of the Western Xia was challenged by the nobility, the mother party, and the powerful ministers, and was in turmoil. Because it is located in the Hexi Corridor and Hetao area, which are surrounded by foreign powers, it adopts a diplomatic strategy of relying on the strong, attacking the weak, and seeking peace by war. The military means are very flexible, in line with the desert terrain, and adopt the tactics of advancing if it is advantageous and retreating if it is unfavorable, luring the enemy to set up an ambush and cutting off the enemy's food routes; And there are special classes such as Iron Harrier, Foot Guard, and Splash Joy to assist. In terms of economy, animal husbandry and commerce were the main forces, and foreign trade was susceptible to the influence of the Central Plains Dynasty, and the monopoly of the Hexi Corridor and the Northern Song Dynasty brought great help to the economy of the Western Xia.

This national and national character, similar to that of ruffians and robbers, is both helpless and hated by the surrounding countries. Civil strife and the struggle for the division of the royal family have run through the life cycle of this country, and it has to be said that the party members are a lucky minority. Catching up with the weakest dynasty in history, the state of the Great Song Dynasty has not been able to reach the heroic progress of the Han and Tang dynasties, eliminating all opponents who threaten their safety. Its fate was not as difficult as that of its predecessors in the era of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, and there were so many competitors and enemies.

Although he did not perish before the rise of the Kingdom of Jin for various reasons, the existence of this country, which has never been able to produce feelings for the people who have traveled through it, has lost its value of existence. It no longer has the value of a bargaining chip between Song and Liao, and the Jin State will take his place. This small nation will soon be destroyed by the layout of the Travelers. This small country, which calls itself the Bang Ni Ding Kingdom or the White High Great Xia Kingdom, has entered the countdown to disappearing.

The fiscal revenue of the Western Xia was mainly composed of the income from state-owned public property (state-owned pastures, farmland, government-run mining industry, and usury), tax revenue, and income from gifts, fines, ransoms, and confiscations. The fact that China's state-owned public property revenues account for the most important part of the total fiscal revenues shows that the Tangut regime still had a strong personal control over the laborers.

When the rogue state of Xia entered the countdown to death, Chen Ji got a lot of wealth and resources in Western Xia.

How to make the Western Xia finances collapse? This problem stumped many of the Great Song Dynasty's Zaifu, but it was difficult to cross the crowd. In view of the financial revenue structure of the Western Xia, a large number of hired labor methods were used to attract labor on the public property, reduce the output of the public property (which required the cooperation of the management and the aristocracy), use the establishment of banks to force the Western Xia monasteries and state-run usury to reduce the interest income (the interest rate was reduced to 10% per year), and destroy the government-run industry and monopoly industry with smuggling, and cut off the way back from the purchase of taxes, so that the Western Xia could not raise taxes in the future.

The smuggling industry naturally makes huge profits, and another huge killer feature is the acquisition of the right to contract tax packages. The smuggling greatly reduced the income of the state-run stores in the Western Xia, and almost made the finances of the Western Xia deteriorate significantly. The bidding for the right to tax has also led to extremely serious consequences.

The right to tax is just a small means of indirect taxation by contracting to local landlords because the cost of direct taxation in remote areas is too high. The system that had to be used under such special conditions would eventually be eliminated by a well-developed tax system.

It's a pity that the system of Western Xia is simply a fishing net full of holes. In the eyes of the local tyrants and chieftains who did not have much culture, the taxes of the Xia Kingdom were not heavy, and 80% of the military expenditure was actually borne by the nobles and lords at all levels, which were equivalent to the local finances. As soon as the war came, the private armies of the nobles, large and small, gathered became the main force of the state. Therefore, the military forces of the Western Xia were basically non-reserve troops, similar to the herdsmen's half-peasant and half-army temporary conscripts. Elite off-duty professional armies, such as the Iron Harriers, are expensive and few in number.

Because of the dumping and price war of smuggling bargains, the income of the state-owned monopoly in Western Xia fell sharply by ninety, and almost all financial sources were affected. The volume of transactions in the underground black market is at least ten times that of the normal market in which the state receives taxes, so that the intensity of taxation is shifted from the black market, which was protected by the aristocracy, to the poor who are not protected. This has further led to a situation of intensification of social contradictions and turmoil.

The right to tax is a method of leasing the right of the tax collector to pay a large amount of money to the tax collector at one time, and then obtain the right to collect tax in the future tax area for a number of years. The financially strong traversal directly auctioned a budget of 5 million yuan to contract the tax revenue of the entire non-Yellow River basin in Western Xia for the next ten years. (These areas were nomadic areas and wastelands that were not suitable for farming, and the taxes could have been ignored and sold for a good price, and the nobles of Western Xia were naturally happy to meet the wronged boss.) Will the traversal make a loss-making trade? This overall one-time purchase of 80% of the land and 15% of the population of Western Xia was only an introduction, giving an excuse and justification for subsequent negotiations with the lords and officials of the rich regions.

Within three years, the traversal obtained the right to package taxes in all regions of Western Xia and paid taxes for the next ten years, but most of these taxes were stored in kind. Including more than a dozen categories and hundreds of varieties of goods. A small part of the coins are treasure coins made in the Western Xia country collected by the Traversal Public. (Because it is exquisite but not as good as Song money, its coinage capacity is limited, and the speed and quantity circulating in the Xia market are scarce, and the official price of 200 wen money can buy a bucket of grain, which is not much at all.) The exquisite Song money and the mechanical Chenji money can buy a bucket of grain for only 180 Wen and 150 Wen respectively. A small amount of Song Qianchen base money and commodities were exchanged for a large number of copper coins of the Xia Kingdom, and then these treasure coins were used to offset a small part of the tax according to the official price. (Xia officials are not stupid, of course there are unspoken rules of public relations, everyone understands, skip here) to strangle the financial revenue of Western Xia and stifle the expenditure of Western Xia in order to make Western Xia weak.

Ten years of tax payments are equivalent to eight years of taxes, and then through the public to launch a 10-year inflation strategy, raise the prices of handicrafts and commerce that have been destroyed by smuggling, and increase the rate of loss of fiscal funds. As a result, this equivalent to eight years of normal financial funds can only sustain expenditures for six years. Under this premise, Xia Guo had to find a way to open up sources and reduce expenditure.

The modern financial methods of pawning assets and borrowing to finance bankruptcy will not be used by the party, and the tax revenue is contracted out, and the only means left are to redeem the stolen income and rob.

Western Xia was not the Qing Empire in the prosperous era of Kang Yongqian, and there were no ministers whose family assets were worth 10 years of financial income to fall down and feed Li Qianshun.

Therefore, the Western Xia emperor and the imperial court, who were actively guided by the close ministers (the shadows who passed through the public) and passively forced by the embarrassing situation, had no choice but to embark on the road of foreign aggression.