"Holy." Wen Yanbo wanted to speak and stopped.

"Xiangguo has something to say." Zhao Ji is funny, and the dignified prime minister talks like a little woman.

"Wechen has been thinking about three things, but he can't do it. I hope that the Holy One will pay more attention. Wen Yanbo began to get serious.

"Xiangguo, please speak, I must think twice before acting." Seeing Wen Yanbo's serious face, Zhao Ji also sat up straight.

"Jiaozi is only made of paper, which is not worth much, and it cannot be exchanged for gold, silver and copper coins, and Weichen is worried that the people will not be able to accept it for a while. After the use of Jiaozi, it may be difficult for the countries trading with China to accept it for a while. Weichen believes that in addition to guaranteeing Jiaozi, he also needs to reserve a lot of gold and silver. Wen Yanbo is not optimistic about the Jiaozi made of paper.

"Well, this matter, the prime minister and the two consuls discussed, and the problem of gold and silver reserves will be handed over to the Ministry of Money to solve." Zhao Ji was also worried that the Jiaozi who was decoupled from the gold, silver and copper coins could not be promoted.

"After the forbidden army was changed to the Dragon Guard, the saint sent generals from the Dragon Guard Army to various places to organize and train various armies. How to arrange the original generals of each army, can't they all be dismissed? Wen Yanbo knew that Zhao Ji's purpose in doing this was not only to organize and train the armies, but also to control the armies.

"Order all the generals to keep their military positions, keep their salaries, and go to Shanghai Mansion. I want to build an official academy in Shanghai, and I will personally be the mountain commander, and re-train the generals of the army. "Zhao Ji decided to return the generals of the army to the furnace and rebuild.

"The Holy Lord wants to train cavalry regiments in various armies, and he needs a lot of war horses. I'm afraid it's hard to buy it for a while. Moreover, whether it is to breed war horses or train cavalry, the cost is more than 20 times that of the infantry army. Wen Yanbo said embarrassedly.

Wen Yanbo, whose name is Kuanfu, was sixty-two years old at the time. During the Renzong Dynasty, he put forward the idea of reducing 80,000 troops, and it was implemented. When he served as the palace attendant, he successfully resisted the invasion of Western Xia. In the past 50 years, he has been in the four dynasties of Shirenzong, Yingzong, Shenzong, and Zhezong, and he is a figure with a great strategy in the big city.

The reason why Zhao Ji chose him as the prime minister is because he is a person who knows the soldiers, and he is also a realistic and pragmatic person. Historically, out of consideration of the emptiness of the treasury, Wen Yanbo recommended and supported Wang Anshi's reform, and when Wang Anshi's reform was full of drawbacks, he decisively opposed the change. What can be done and what cannot be done, he can see very clearly.

"I heard from Director Li at the Li Family Racecourse about this issue. He said that the Great Song Dynasty was not short of horses, but of knights. Didn't the Warden sell all the horse farms to the merchants? I also asked Li Da to send a family member who is proficient in horse breeding in the Li Family Horse Farm to preside over the bidding for the horse farm. If there are people who raise war horses, half of the tax can be exempted. Zhao Ji said helplessly.

I remembered that there were more than 50 horse farms in the Great Song Dynasty, but there were only 1,000 war horses that could be cultivated every year.

Although the Great Song Dynasty was now a large number of people and little land, the population was unevenly distributed, and the population pressure was great, a large amount of grassland was forcibly occupied and opened up into farmland, and the cost of raising war horses and building cavalry was very expensive. However, Zhao Ji understood that the Great Song Dynasty must have a strong cavalry.

In the Han and Tang dynasties, the Chinese cavalry was vertical and horizontal, and fought thousands of miles. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty defeated the Xiongnu, and every year there were 100,000 elite cavalry and 300,000 war horses. Wei Qing and Huo Qubing led such a cavalry into the desert and beat the Xiongnu to death.

Those who commit strong men will be punished even if they are far away. Such a bold statement can only be fulfilled by a huge elite cavalry! During the Tang Dynasty, there were more war horses, and the Tang Dynasty government owned more than 700,000 horses. Coupled with the war horses raised by the people, Datang can dispatch a million war horses and 500,000 elite cavalry to participate in the big war at a time.

It is precisely in this way that Tang Taizong can have the title of Heavenly Khan. If my Great Song Dynasty had so many elite cavalry, Northern Liao Xixia would be just a clown jumping off the beam.

"To solve the contradiction between man and land, the only way to do this is to develop the lake and the development of the stream. When the grain production went up, there was a surplus of grain to raise a large number of war horses. It's a pity that this dynasty has lost all the places where good horses come out, the land of Hetao, the desert grassland are in the hands of the Khitans, and the Ganliang area is in the hands of the Xixia people. Sooner or later, I'll have to take it back! Zhao Ji stood up, helpless, and kept cheering himself up.

"Holy Lord, don't be reckless! When the law is changed, the Western Xia Khitan must be more encircled. Now, the border disputes in Western Xia are continuous, and domestic law changes are boiling. Wechen was worried that the Khitan would take advantage of the fire to rob it. The horse herding supervisor has now changed from raising horses to supervising the merchants to raise horses, and he can raise millions of war horses in the same day as the Great Song Dynasty. Wen Yanbo pinched a handful of sweat, and now the ministers are most afraid of Zhao Xingbing.

"I know that, too. I am about to go to Shanghai Mansion to preside over the development of Liuqiu and Huguang. This Great Song Dynasty was entrusted to Xiangguo, Wang was stubborn in his ruling character, Sima was upright in his ruling personality, and he hoped that Xiangguo would be more tolerant of them. Zhao Ji arched his hand and said.

"Wang Anshi and Sima Guang, both of them are great talents that come out once in a century, so the saint can rest assured." Wen Yanbo also got up and returned the salute.

It turned out that Zhao Ji only valued Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, Wen Yanbo, Han Qi and other veteran ministers and had small words, because the two of them had the talent to govern, but they did not have the degree of prime minister. Zhao Ji finally chose to use Wen Yanbo as his minister, but he followed the wishes of a group of veteran ministers. It was the original three prime ministers Han Qi, Fu Bi, and Zeng Gongliang who recommended Wen Yanbo as the prime minister.

"Holy Lord, please see." Wen Yanbo took out a map and said: "This is the territory of the early Han Dynasty, and there is no Great Song Dynasty. To the south, the area south of Wuling belonged to Baiyue (now Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Vietnam, and Hainan Island), and although it was called the land of the Han Dynasty, it was a division of local forces and did not help the Han Dynasty. In the west, it is the land of Hexi, which is rich in good horses, but until the beginning of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it belonged to the Xiongnu, not the land of the Han Dynasty. Here is the land of Hetao, is a famous war horse production area, located in the south of Yinshan Mountain, the climate is mild, the soil is fertile, the water is beautiful and the grass is green, it is the pasture that the Xiongnu yearns for. There are a lot of horses produced here, very miraculous, it is the main place where the Xiongnu produce horses in Monan, if it falls into the hands of the Xiongnu, the harm is very great. It is precisely because of this that after Qin Shi Huang unified China, he ordered Meng Tian to lead an army of 300,000 to attack the Xiongnu, break the Xiongnu, and seize the land of Hetao. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and the Xiongnu's Mao Dunshan took the opportunity to regain the land of the Hetao, so that the best place to produce horses was not in the hands of the Han Dynasty. This is the Monan grassland, including the land of the current Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, all in the hands of the Huns. ”

Take history as evidence to prove that a large number of horses can be raised in large numbers without the places mentioned by Zhao Ji. Wen Yanbo was afraid that Zhao Ji would not be patient, and he would use troops against the Khitan Xixia before he could raise war horse cavalry.

Wen Yanbo's fingers kept moving on the map, and he explained to Zhao Ji in detail: "At the beginning of the Han and Tang Dynasties, after the Great War, the land was vast and there were few people. The common people had a lot of land, and the military government system of the Tang Dynasty was based on the uniform land system. For this reason, the army is conquest, and the soldiers can prepare their own war horses. It was not until after the Kaiyuan Dynasty that land annexation intensified and the military government was corrupted. Land annexation is a general trend that cannot be reversed by manpower. The only way to increase the yield per acre is to increase the yield. At the time of the opening of the Yuan Dynasty, the high-grade fields produced two stones of grain per mu, and the common people produced more than 100 acres per household. Now, each mu produces four stones of grain, and the people produce more than 20 acres per household. In addition to clearing the wasteland and increasing the yield, Wechen hopes to work hard to increase the yield per mu. The field is less and more productive, and more war horses can be raised. ”

"When Emperor Zhenzong introduced, Champa rice was introduced, and now six varieties have been cultivated, and the yield per mu is more than six stones. In the north, there are mostly dry fields, and more upland rice should be popularized for Champong rice. The water network in the south is dense, and rice should be promoted more. In the southern part of Huguang Lingnan, rice is more than three crops a year. Weichen estimated that if Huguang could be developed, the grain production of the Great Song Dynasty would increase by more than ten times, and the Great Song Dynasty would no longer have the worry of famine. With grain in hand, the state can have no worries, and industry and commerce will prosper, and the foundation is still in grain production. Seeing that Zhao Ji kept nodding, Wen Yanbo poured out almost everything he had to say.

"Liuqiu is not the land of the Great Song Dynasty. Wechen doesn't know very well. However, across the sea, no matter how much grain is produced, it is not easy to transport grain. There are many sugarcane plantings on Quang Nam Road, or they can be popularized in Liuqiu. Wen Yanbo saw Zhao Ji staring at Liuqiu on the map, looking thoughtful, so he added.

"The ability of literature lies in the overall situation. This point is not comparable to Wang Anshi and Sima Guang. Zhao Ji bowed his hand again.

"The Holy One has praised it." Wen Yanbo returned the salute and continued: "Holy Lord, Jiaozi is made of paper, which is not as practical as gold, silver and copper coins. It may be difficult for the people to accept it, and a large amount of grain stored in the imperial court can guarantee Jiaozi. But in the event of a famine, prices soar, and the imperial court opens warehouses to release grain, Jiaozice is afraid that it will collapse. Weichen thought that there was more gold and silver reserves. There are too few gold and silver mines in the Great Song Dynasty, and even iron ore is less, and the quality is not high, so it is difficult to mine. ”

Seeing that Zhao Yan could listen to his advice, Wen Yanbo took out what he didn't dare to say again.

"The gold and silver mines of the Great Song Dynasty are mostly in Hebei, and the copper and iron mines are mostly in the south of the Yangtze River. Charcoal is mostly used in mining and metallurgy, and the land of the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River is hilly and sparsely populated. After the trees are cut down, there is little impact on the land. In the north, once the trees are cut down, it is difficult to regenerate, and the root cause of the flooding of the Yellow River is here, and Luoyang, Chang'an, cannot be the capital, and the root is also here. Weichen suggested that after the Yellow River is subsumed into the north, on both sides of the Yellow River, farmland should be returned to forests, a vegetation belt should be established, and trees should be planted to consolidate the soil. There are many carboniferous (coal) in Hedong Road, Shanxi, which can be mined in large quantities, and coal is used more in mining and metallurgy. Wen Yanbo analyzed step by step.

"Wen Xiang, this is going to be out of Longzhong, right? Hahaha, good, good. Zhao Ji couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard Wen Yanbo's overall plan.

Wen Yanbo was overjoyed when he heard Zhao Ji compare him to Zhuge Liang, and then said: "Liu Bei is just a warlord's ear, how can he be compared with the saint." If the people in the north are unwilling to migrate to Huguang, Weichen feels that there is no need to use a strong force, and a large number of mines can be accommodated to accommodate some customers to turn agriculture into workers. Mining and using coal to make steel can also reduce the price of farm tools a lot, which is conducive to the development strategy of Shengshang. ”

"After the development of Huguang, troops can be stationed in Chengdu and Juzhou (Guiyang) to attack Dali. There are many iron ores, gold and silver mines in Dali, and the quality is very high, and the swords of the generals of the imperial court are mostly from Dali. Japan, a small country in the sea, is also the same as Dali, but the sea route is long, and it is impossible to use troops against Japan. Dali is only a small country, and most of it is mountainous, so it cannot be like the Western Xia and Khitan to gather a large number of soldiers and horses. The total strength of Dali is 200,000, but because it is a mountainous area, it is not easy to mobilize. To attack Dali, as long as 30,000 elite soldiers are dispatched to quickly capture the capital of Dali, Dali can be destroyed. ”

Wen Yanbo knew that Zhao Ji was an emperor who admired martial arts, and it was impossible to prevent Zhao Ji from raising troops, but Western Xia and Northern Liao could not gnaw, but Dali did not necessarily gnaw. Wen Yanbo said this to move Zhao Xingbing's gaze south.

"Good, good. It's better than the Rum pair. Hahaha. Zhao Ji took Wen Yanbo's hand and laughed.

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