Zhou Yi looked forward to war and was afraid of it.

The reason for looking forward to war is that at any time, the best way to get a legitimately high position is to obtain a military industry. So everyone says that the times create heroes, but Zhou Yi prefers heroes to create the times.

Afraid of war, Zhou Yi felt that he was too merciful, both physically and psychologically, he felt that he could not erase a living person from this world at all.

Perhaps this is the gap between barbarism and civilization, but who knows where the boundary between civilization and barbarism lies? China has always advertised itself as a state of etiquette, but should a state of etiquette be afraid of war? Is it just for the sake of maintaining stability and peace that they are only willing to be slapped in the face?

Zhou Yi thinks no, the so-called "civilized" country, not to take the initiative to provoke war, is benevolent, but also absolutely not to be afraid of war, to avoid war, dignity, more important than this, if a country, so that the people can not feel the dignity of life, then what is the need for such a country to exist?

Zhou Yi doesn't like to kill, but he hopes that he won't be afraid of killing, as long as he has a clear conscience and sticks to his original intention, everything will be fine.

On this day, on the night of the third day when Zhou Yi received the notice, Zhou Yi took people out to eat, Wang Er, as well as Tang Wuyi, and some officials with formal establishments below, this is the benefit he gave to these subordinates, and the expenses were all paid by him out of his own pocket.

After eating, it was just the beginning of the time, and in the Great Song Dynasty, the nightlife at the time of this song happened to be the most abundant time. But Zhou Yi and the others came out of the restaurant. There are not many pedestrians on the streets.

They are not far away. Several people were discussing enthusiastically: "Hey, you say, why did you suddenly order the curfew to be advanced yesterday?" With so many more patrols, what the hell is going on? ”

"I don't know, I haven't heard anything lately, oh yes, a cousin in the barracks said that we might have to fight."

"What? Fight? Over here? You're not kidding. We give out so many coins every year, who will come to beat us? ”

"You know a ball, forget it, don't talk about state affairs, go home and sleep with your wife, alas, a good life is a day."

……

Walking on the street, Zhou Yi said, "I want to run a newspaper." ”

"Huh?" Tang Wuyi is a native of the north, and "Qingbao" has not developed the market so quickly, although it has some influence in the south. But when you come to Zhending Mansion in the north of the capital, it is a new thing that has never been heard of.

Zhou Yi continued: "Lord Tang. This official has always admired a saying, which is called the mouth of the people is more important than the defense of Sichuan, and I have heard that it is better to block than to sparse. You see, we are about to go to war, and the people can only speculate for no reason after the dinner, as the people of the Great Song Dynasty, do you think they have the obligation to know what will happen next in the Great Song Dynasty? ”

"Your Excellency has a point, but we can't tell them that we're going to fight soon, can we? If you don't fight, then the adults will become rumors, and you will be in the barracks......" Tang Wuyi stopped talking, and he didn't need to say the next words clearly, Zhou Yi understood. The so-called rumors and shaking the morale of the army are all taboos, and no matter how much they are favored by the officials, it is absolutely unambiguous that they should be beheaded.

Zhou Yi just wants to set up the Qingbao in this Zhending Mansion, in addition to a strong army, Zhou Yi prefers to have an invincible army of public opinion, which is a lethal weapon for various countries.

But listening to Tang Wuyi say that it seems to be a very dangerous thing to do, so he can only give up, he is not the material for this business, if someone grabs the handle of a sentence in the newspaper one day, it will really be lifting a stone to shoot himself in the foot. It's better to wait for Zhang Qing to develop slowly, he specializes in this, and he knows what he can and can't say.

The next day, just when he arrived at the yamen, Tang Wuyi urged him to go to the barracks, Zhou Yi didn't know what was happening, so a group of people set off immediately.

It's been so long since he was in office in Zhending Mansion, and Zhou Yi hasn't had time to go to this military camp to take a look, Zhou Yi feels that he is still quite incompetent.

The military camp is in the northwest of Zhending Province, where there is a large area, which is assigned to the military camp as a garrison, and it is very convenient to go out of the city.

Because it is the border of the country, there are many troops, and there are 20,000 permanent troops, plus other government soldiers and so on, and 40,000 or 50,000 people can be made.

When the highest-level internal affairs officer came over, naturally no one would stop him, and Zhou Yi took more than 100 of his own people into the barracks in a grand manner.

Speaking of the barracks, Zhou Yi always thought that it was like a TV movie, with a series of tents and soldiers patrolling around with torches. Now I realize that it is not at all what I imagined, only that the place is more spacious, the house is larger, and everything else is the same as other places.

The shogunate official of the same grade as Tang Wuyi was a stout man in his fifties, his name was Yi Yingfeng, Zhou Yi saw that he was most impressed by the hair that was almost like an atavistic one, except for the eyes, nose and ears that could be distinguished, he was simply a hairball without opening his mouth or opening his eyes.

In terms of height, Zhou Yi is the age with the fastest physical growth and development, and he can only get this Yi Yingfeng's squeaky nest, even if Tang Wuyi is taller than Zhou Yi, it is only to Yi Yingfeng's shoulders. Standing in the crowd, he stood out.

When Zhou Yi arrived, Yi Yingfeng was gathering the army, 20,000 people were actually quite a lot, standing together in a black pressure, very spectacular, their armor was shiny, their swords were sharp, and Zhou Yi felt like an elite army. Although the Great Song Dynasty had all kinds of problems, because of the wealth of the country, of course it would not lag behind in this basic equipment, so although everyone said that the Tang Dynasty army was strong, but in terms of the treatment of the army and equipment supply, the Song army was much stronger than the Tang army.

"I've seen Lord Zhou." In the Song Dynasty, the status of civil officials was higher than that of military officials, so although Zhou Yi's official rank was the same as Yi Yingfeng's, he still had to salute Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi hurriedly returned the salute, the two met, Zhou Yi asked: "I just arrived in the yamen, Lord Tang invited me over, Lord Yi, are you ready to lead the army to the front?" ”

"Well, we have received the news, Dingzhou and Daizhou have already moved, and the army is about to arrive, so we have to be in front of it in advance." Yi Yingfeng hurriedly replied. His mouth could not be seen at all when he spoke, and he could only judge by the curvature of his beard, and his voice was muffled.

Zhou Yi nodded slightly, and he didn't know how the official family would start and end a war this time. What Zhou Yi knew was that none of the emperors of the Song Dynasty liked to fight, and this time Zhao Ji took the initiative to go to war, just because the emperor of Liao, the forty-three-year-old Liao Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi, looked like a dead king.

But he hopes that he can prove his worth in a war that does not know when it will end.

"Soon, we will come up with a new weapon, which is easy to carry and easy to operate, and will be more conducive to everyone's combat. And from today onwards, your food will be improved, and I will try to make sure that every one of you can eat pork. ”

As an official in charge of internal affairs, Zhou Yi can only improve everyone's treatment in terms of food and equipment. Not long ago, Gao Yu had already sent a letter saying that the automatic hand crossbow had been submitted to the official family, and the official family had also approved it and handed it over to the Ministry of War for production.

And Zhou Yi has also communicated with the prefect of Zhending Mansion through paperwork, allowing the people to raise pigs, but all family taxes for pig raising have been reduced by half, so as to improve the enthusiasm of farmers to raise pigs, and even Zhou Yi also made a pig raising guide to the prefect to decentralize the entire Zhending Mansion farmers. After the pigs grow up and are slaughtered, the Zhending Mansion will collect them according to the set strategy of reducing taxes. Zhou Yi will allocate a part of the funds to the prefect to offset the reduced taxes, which is not a lot of taxes for the prefect.

This is a win-win cooperation, the money Zhou Yi took out was all the stolen money that was embezzled before, since he showed the new account book to Tang Wuyi, he no longer dared to do anything, making fake accounts in front of Zhou Yi is tantamount to playing a big knife in front of Guan Gongmen.

Zhou Yi also actively promoted the method of eating pork and the method of stir-frying, which was his self-protection measure.

If everyone eats pork and achieves a balance between supply and demand or an oversupply, then the price of pork will rise to a new height.

Farmers will give priority to handing over the slaughtered pigs to the government, which will provide them to Zhou Yi's army, and the rest will flow into the market.

In addition, the government can adjust the price at any time, and every pork that comes out of the pork must be quarantined by the government before it can be put on the market, so that the amount of pork entering the market will be considered controllable within a certain range, so as to maintain price stability.

This strict system was provided by Zhou Yi to the prefect of Zhending Prefecture, and the prefect was delegated to the county government, because everyone's interests were not affected, so pig breeding soon began to become popular in Zhending Prefecture. Of course, that's an afterthought, so let's not talk about it for now.

The two things announced by Zhou Yi made Yi Yingfeng look very surprised, if Zhou Yi came to the barracks as soon as he took office, Yi Yingfeng was likely to give him a dismissal, just like Tang Wuyi. But now that the military situation is urgent, he doesn't have the time to spare. Regarding the conditions put forward by Zhou Yi, he was even more impressed with Zhou Yi. Improving the quality of life and updating equipment are the duties of the Interior Officer, but few of them do it.

When he stood in his position and announced the good news to the 50,000 troops in front of him, the soldiers cheered, eating meat at once, this is the dream of all the people, the clear soup in the military camp is not even comparable to the life of ordinary people, Runjin has risen sharply, and no one will not be excited. (To be continued......)