When Liu Rang introduced this set of northern and southern official systems of the Liao State, Zhao Weiji immediately thought of a system that was called a feat in the later Celestial Empire, one country, two systems, and a high degree of autonomy.

Although Liu Rang's "one country, two systems" may not achieve a high degree of autonomy as later generations, the Han people governing the Han and the Liao people governing the Liao can indeed alleviate the national contradictions to a certain extent.

However, at this time, when the other ministers also understood what was going on with Liu Rang's set of things, the question was naturally raised.

"Lord Liu, this system of northern and southern officials is indeed good, but the problem is that when the Liao State was implemented, they already had a large number of Han people under its rule. And we are only occupying Yanyun now, which was not the settlement that the Khitans were accustomed to before, and the number of Khitans who may be able to stay now will not be too large. Is it just a small number of Khitans worth setting up a special system to accommodate them?

In Weichen's opinion, it is better to directly migrate these Khitan people who stayed in Yanyun to the Central Plains, live together with the Han people, and slowly sinicize is the best policy. ”

The person who said this was Zhang Zhibai, and in his opinion, it would be a waste to set up such a system just for a small group of Khitans.

Liu Rang didn't refute Zhang Zhibai's criticism, he just said softly: "Is just one Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures enough?" ”

When Liu Rang said this, everyone present turned their heads in the same direction, not looking at Liu Rang, but at Zhao Weiji.

Whether it is over when you take back Yanyun is not Liu Rang's decision, nor is it Kou Zhun who has the final say. But Zhao Weiji has the final say.

Although now with Zhao Weiji's step by step transformation of state power. Many political affairs do not use Zhao Weiji to directly intervene. But when it comes to real national affairs, he, the emperor, has the final say.

Therefore, whether it is enough to take back Yan Yun depends on whether the emperor who has already made history has greater ambitions.

But to be honest, the current ministers are all looking forward to Zhao Weiji's greater ambitions, and they want to fight more battles. Doesn't it mean that war costs people and money? Why are these pillars of the nation looking forward to more wars now?

The reason is simple, no one wants to fight if it costs money, but what if it can be earned?

While the war to recover Yanyun was still going on, the ministers were surprised to find that this war had actually brought additional benefits.

First of all, with the continuous transmission of good news from the front, the morale of the people in the entire Great Song Dynasty has been greatly boosted. It can be said that the confidence of the people in the current Great Song Dynasty in the country's foreign wars has been restored to the period when Taizu had just founded the country.

With the improvement of the morale of the people in the country, it has also brought a great improvement to production, and even so to speak, the ministers walk on the street market every day and feel the smiles of the people around them increase.

And although the war will bring casualties, because of the continuous victory, the families whose children died in this war have the same sadness, but they do not resent the country to fight this war, because they know that their children's sacrifices will not be in vain.

At this time, the ministers realized that as long as the war could be won, the disaster caused by the war was not as terrible as they imagined.

Secondly, the imperial court was surprised to find out in the course of this war. As if the financial burden of this war was not so severe, even.

Due to the introduction and popularization of high-yield crops in recent years, it can be said that there have been bumper harvests of grain year after year. Even a slight disaster did not affect food production.

What's more, with Zhao Weiji's ascension to the throne, overseas colonial development began to enter a golden age of vigorous development, and now there is more than just a city in Xinhua City on the land of North America, and more and more new cities are constantly being established on the land of the North American continent.

And with the in-depth exploration of the North American continent, the Central Great Plain officially entered the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and when the news of the discovery of this plain that was almost the size of the entire territory of the Great Song Dynasty was transmitted back to China, Kou Zhun, who had always been steady, actually left tears of joy.

The lack of cultivated land has plagued the Central Plains Dynasty since ancient times, and the land in China is good, but there is too little flat land, and the mix of mountains and hills makes the available arable land actually not much.

However, with the Central Plains, as long as the land is well cultivated, I don't know how much arable land will be able to increase in the future.

Because the problem of food was basically solved, the military rations that went out this time did not have any impact on the domestic grain stocks, and even when Yang Yanzhao asked the imperial court to increase the grain transfer to the prefectures and counties that had already been taken after Yang Yanzhao took Datong Mansion, the ministers agreed without thinking about it, because there was too much food.

Spending money was not a problem, as commerce in the Great Song Dynasty had gradually developed into industry, and the imperial court also shifted the focus of taxation from agriculture to industry and commerce.

In recent years, the tax revenue brought by industry and commerce in one year is more than the tax created by agriculture in the past five years, and some industries of the imperial court itself have also brought a lot of income, which makes the Great Song Dynasty enter the richest period since the founding of the country.

And this kind of wealth is actually based on the fact that all taxes are reduced.

Not only that, with the continuous discovery of gold mines overseas, a large amount of gold makes the imperial court finally give brass without a bounty of 100 taels when rewarding.

Basically, the Ministry of Finance has budgeted the cost of fighting the war, which is less than one-tenth of the total annual revenue.

Finally, it is also the biggest reason why the ministers hope to continue the war, that is, after this war, in fact, the entire Great Song Dynasty has benefited not only from the land but also from the Yanshan barrier.

After this war, the number of people obtained is not a small number. And in addition to the population, there are also a large number of mineral resources in Yanyun.

The arrival of these mineral resources can basically offset the total cost of the entire war to recover Yanyun, and it can make money.

No politician would hate such a war, which does not cost the people and money and can still make money.

Because of this, these ministers now hope that Zhao Weiji can nod, as long as Zhao Weiji is determined to destroy the entire Liao State, with the absolute suppression of the Song army in military technology, a preparation of five to ten years should be enough to destroy the entire Liao State.

And Zhao Weiji naturally saw the ambition of the entire imperial court, indeed, as long as the Great Song Dynasty could continue to develop along the road of industrialization, it should not be a problem to use the crushing of science and technology to destroy the Liao State.

But Zhao Weiji did not give a positive answer, but only said: "Liu asked you to make preparations, and then go to Yanjing with the officials and soldiers who are going to Yanyun to take up their posts and garrisons." Then I'll discuss with Yan Zhao how to implement your north-south official system. ”

With such a simple sentence, the entire cabinet was like a chicken blood, because although Zhao Weiji did not respond positively, since this north-south official system was to be implemented, it was necessary to destroy Liao and bring the Khitans under the rule of the Great Song Dynasty, otherwise it would be too wasteful as Zhang Zhibai said.

After receiving Zhao Weiji's order, Liu Rang embarked on a journey back to Yanyun again, but this time he returned, his identity was completely different.

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At the same time that the imperial court began to send officials to Yanyun who had already stationed soldiers, Yang Yanzhao's troops, who had been repairing in Yanjing for a period of time, took down all the remaining states and counties in the sixteen states of Yanyun in one go after the end of the rainy season, so far the war to recover Yanyun was basically over, as long as the garrison officials and soldiers completed their stationing, Yanyun, who had been ruled by the Central Plains Dynasty for many years, finally announced his return.

And Yang Yanzhao, who had basically finished the combat mission, was not ready to leave for the Central Plains at this time, because he received a new order, that is, he had become the official general stationed in Yanyun.

On the day he received this appointment, Yang Yanzhao also saw Liu Rang who came with the order again. Liu Rang's return surprised Yang Yanzhao a little, but he didn't expect that Liu Rang, who had just been transferred to the capital by Zhao Weiji, was sent back again.

"Yan Zhao, congratulations, not only did you take down Yan Yun, but you were also directly appointed as the general stationed in Yan Yun. There is no shortage of ancient miracles and the emperor's trust. ”

"The eldest brother has an overreputation, Yan Zhao wants to congratulate the eldest brother here, it seems that there must be a big appointment to be sent back to Yanyun by His Majesty this time."

Liu Rang did not answer him directly for Yang Yanzhao's congratulations, but took out a holy decree from the pocket of his cuff and handed it to Yang Yanzhao.

Yang Yanzhao opened it and saw that the original recovered Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures were divided into two parts by Zhao Weiji, the southern part of the original Liaoxi Jingdao and the five continents were assigned to the Hedong Road, while the remaining prefectures were newly established with the original Nanjing Road of Liao, and a new Hebei North Road was established.

And Liu Rang was appointed to judge the affairs of Hebei North Road, and the entire political affairs of the newly established Hebei North Road were not only that, Liu Rang also unexpectedly temporarily served as the transfer envoy of Hebei North Road, that is to say, the two financial powers of the newly established Hebei North Road were picked up by Liu Rang.

"The eldest brother also said that I am a good saint, and the eldest brother is the first person to be a magistrate in the Great Song Dynasty, and there is no one else in the entire Great Song Dynasty who can have both financial and financial powers."

This time, Liu Rang no longer reacted to Yang Yanzhao's compliment, but smiled bitterly: "Yanzhao, you Great Song Emperor are too ruthless." Do you know why he would give me such a subordinate the right to fight like this? That's because he wants me to do what I want to do next in Yanyun without any constraints.

But at the same time, it also cut off my retreat, and if this thing doesn't work, I can't find any excuse. (To be continued......)