The Great Song Dynasty has not really been stable since the first year of Jingkang, from the Song-Jin War to the later restoration and construction, there is no need to spend a lot of energy and money to rebuild the ruined Yanyun, making it an important northern barrier of the Great Song Dynasty, so that Jiangbei, Jiangnan, Shuzhong, Guanzhong can recover their vitality and accumulate people's strength for the next war.

The accumulation of more than 100 years in the Great Song Dynasty has been consumed in recent years, and now it is necessary to start from scratch, accumulate strength, the difficulty is not ordinary, every day there are many unfinished government and military affairs, every high-level official is so busy that he does not even have time to eat, not to mention the previous rest day, the officials of the Northern Song Dynasty have more than 100 holidays a year, which can be called the happiest official in the world, but now, there are only three or five days of holidays a year.

It's not that you don't want to rest, there is really no way to rest, the government affairs accumulated by a day of rest are a mountain, if you don't want to be crushed by the mountain, then you can only deal with it desperately, it's better not to rest, it's better to deal with it, as the emperor's most important assistant to deal with government affairs, that is, the distribution center of the world's government affairs, here, the courtiers need to separate the big things from the small things, and pick out all the major things that can affect the national policy and report them to the emperor, and the small things will be dealt with by themselves and handed over to the prime minister for review.

Of the remaining 780 percent, a considerable part of them are disposed of on the spot, 1 percent of the 230 percent of the major military affairs are reported to the emperor for the emperor to decide, and the remaining 99 percent is handled by the government affairs hall itself.

The emperor is just one person, and he can't handle so many things, just those one hundredth of things. There are more than ten or twenty things to be discussed in the court every day, and each one is very important. It would be good to be able to discuss a result in an hour, and Zhao Ding and Yue, the chief and deputy prime ministers, were busy. In the end, the two negotiated the division of labor, Zhao Ding sat in the government affairs hall to handle government affairs, and Yue turned to assist the emperor in handling major affairs.

Now the emperor has a day off, and ordered all government affairs to be handed over to the chief and deputy prime ministers, as long as the chief and deputy prime ministers sign jointly, even if it is the emperor's will, there is no need to report to the emperor, and it is the first time that such a bold delegation of power to the courtiers is still the first time in the Great Song Dynasty, and the previous eunuchs are not counted for the time being.

The pressure on Zhao Ding and Yue Fan increased suddenly. The officials of the three provinces and six ministries were gathered in the government affairs hall and made a noise, and the noise near the government affairs hall was approaching a critical value, and everyone seemed extremely anxious and busy.

Fortunately, the main government affairs in all parts of the country are related to recuperation and taxation, and military affairs only appear in the northwest and along the Great Wall, which relieves some troubles for the big guys, after all, people who are well versed in military affairs are really rare in the government affairs hall, and the Privy Council is fully prepared for war, and there is no spare manpower to be sent to deal with military affairs.

The prefect of Chengdu Prefecture said that Chengdu Prefecture had largely returned to its pre-war level. Next year, you can start to resume paying taxes, please ask the imperial court for approval. Zhao Ding frowned with a copy of the fold: "During the war, Chengdu Prefecture supported the largest number of people with money and grain, and it should be the most seriously damaged. How did you recover so quickly? None of the prefectures in Xichuan has proposed to pay taxes, and His Majesty has exempted most areas of Xichuan from paying taxes for three years, and Chengdu Mansion is also among them. Now it's only been a year, and they're recovering? It's strange. ”

Yue turned his head and sneered, "Another fool who is greedy for merit." Chengdu Prefecture supported the Northwest War in terms of money, food, and population, even though it was the country of abundance. It can't withstand such a large amount of consumption, and now it is only a little more than a year before it can be restored to the pre-war level? What did he take the war for? Trifling?! Liu Mao, the prefect of Chengdu Mansion, there must be a problem, Xianggong, the lower official suggested sending Yushi to Chengdu Mansion to investigate, this person must have done something angry and resentful! ”

Zhao Ding nodded approvingly: "Yes, this wind cannot be opened, once it is accepted, the officials of the world will force the people to accept taxes in order to compete for credit, and the people will be miserable to support the war. Zhao Ding wrote a "no" on the fold, and then ordered to go down and send the imperial historian to Chengdu Mansion to make a secret visit to see if Liu Mao had done anything hurtful.

In order to curry favor with the emperor and demonstrate their ability to govern affairs, there are often officials who force the people to accept taxes and miscellaneous labor that far exceed their own capacity, and in the end it is the people who suffer, the officials who benefit, and the emperor who does not know the truth.

Yue Chuan was a local official in Jiangnan for three years, and he deeply understood a series of angry and resentful things made by local officials in order to strive for political achievements, these tricks could not be concealed from Yue Tuo, and he could see at a glance the means of those local officials.

The prefect of Xiangyang Prefecture also said that he could start to resume paying taxes, and the people under his rule petitioned to pay taxes...... Hehehe, Xianggong, ancient anecdotes, eternal anecdotes, the people actually took the initiative to ask to pay taxes, hahahahaha! Yue took out a copy of the fold and laughed.

Zhao Ding took it and looked at it, and laughed angrily: "Ridiculous! Ridiculous! Xiangyang Mansion has suffered heavy losses during the Fangla Rebellion, and when the Jin people were fighting, almost all the money and grain were handed over to the front line, or the old man personally supervised the implementation, it can be described as poor and white, His Majesty deliberately reduced taxes for three years to reduce the burden on the people of Xiangyang Mansion, this Wang Zhilin, is simply ridiculous! ”

Yue Fu sneered: "Greedy for merit, forcing the people under his jurisdiction to pay taxes in advance, suffering the lives of a house, and fulfilling his reputation as a "capable official", if we accept one person, then the state government will follow suit and force the people to pay taxes in advance, the world will be in chaos, and the Great Song Dynasty will lose the hearts of the people, these stupid things, it's damned!" ”

Zhao Ding shook his head heavily, picked up the pen and wrote down four big words "ridiculous", and threw the fold aside: "If this fold is seen by the officials, these two people must be head-to-headed, the Great Song Dynasty is the time to employ people, although Liu Mao and Wang Zhilin are not good morals, but they are still capable officials, and they have made great achievements in governing the place, but they are greedy and rash, we can reprimand them, but don't make too much trouble." ”

Yue Pan shook his head helplessly: "If the officials in the world are the same as these two people, how can they get it, these two people just took the lead, if they don't suppress this atmosphere, there will be a second and third, in various unexpected ways, saying that they are very successful in governing the place, and at that time, it will be difficult for us to end."

Xianggong, the lower officials suggested that these two people should be investigated and dealt with, deterring the officials of the world, for the herdsmen of the Son of Heaven, not for the Son of Heaven to abuse the people, if you do something that hurts the heavens and reason, the people are easy to abuse, and the heavens are difficult to bully! said that three years is three years, with the current situation, three years may not be enough for the Great Song Dynasty to recover its vitality, if it is early, I am afraid that there will be another Fangla rebellion! Haven't the officials done enough to force the people to rebel?! These stupid things! ”

Zhao Ding thought for a while, nodded in agreement: "What Peng Zhan said is very reasonable, so let's do it!" According to the official documents of the Ministry of Officials, the prefect of Chengdu Prefecture and the prefect of Xiangyang Prefecture are corrupt and pervert the law, regard the emperor's holy decree as nothing, openly bully the king, oppress the people, and hurt the heavens and reason. ”

In a word, the two prefects were dismissed, the world shook, officials from all over the country were ready to move, ready to put pressure on the court in the second wave, as long as everyone came together, it would definitely make the court think that the world had been restored, everyone's credit was the most important, as for the rest, he didn't care if he lived or died!

As a result, the two prefects were dismissed, removed from their posts, and never hired, which severely shocked the local officials, and a pompous wind stopped the car and never appeared again.

Stabilizing the place is only the first step, there are more important things to do, Zhao Huan's body is not good, and he can't support long-term high-intensity work, but during the war, it is not possible to decide some things without the emperor, so it is necessary to let the emperor rest well before the war starts.

It will take a while for Yue Fei to arrive in Chang'an Mansion, and during this time, everyone will have to work hard, not let the emperor work, let the emperor nourish his spirit, and wait for the northwest war together, then the emperor will need to work.

Yue Flip has already grasped the logistics and transportation of grain and grass, the so-called three armies have not moved the grain and grass first, without grain and grass, the war cannot be fought, Yue Flip has always opposed the mobilization of grain from all over the country to support the war, the reason is that the loss is too great, the great powers of the pre-Qin period have their own understanding, from the transportation of grain from the rich land of Suzhou and Hangzhou to the enemy in the northwest, there is not one in a hundred, along the way people eat horses and chew on the consumption of most of the grain, to transport to the locality, it is better not to transport.

Now the Great Song Dynasty is still the Suzhou and Hangzhou region is not short of food, although the people's livelihood conditions are not very good, but there is no shortage of food, called Yue turned very helpless, the land of Guanzhong has no longer the reputation of the country of abundance in the early Tang Dynasty, the climate change makes the land of Guanzhong increasingly barren, the country of abundance that supported a country gradually degraded, has been difficult to support alone, the current country of abundance Sichuan has also suffered serious losses before, can not support a war, so in desperation, can only transport grain from Suzhou and Hangzhou.

To support a three- or two-month war for 30,000 or 40,000 people, the amount of food and military supplies needed is an astronomical amount, what Yue Chuan didn't understand very well in previous years, now he understands it clearly, the arithmetic numbers of the household mathematicians are presented in front of Yue Flip, and Yue Flip is dizzy, what kind of astronomical number is that!

"It's definitely only three months, only three months at most, if it's more, we really can't do anything, Xianggong, the consumption is too great, we can't fight, we really can't fight!" Yue closed the account, rubbed his eyes, and kept shaking his head, about the question asked by Zhao Ding about whether he could deepen the depth of the war.

"However, the old man went to meet His Majesty, and His Majesty still remembered the war in the northwest, hoping that General Yue could expand some scale, so that the western thieves would not dare to mess around." Zhao Ding's face was bitter, Yue turned over the account to Zhao Ding, and said helplessly: "Xianggong, take a look for yourself, this is the account, from the first year of Jingkang to the present, all the savings of the Great Song Dynasty are here, after three months of this battle, how much is left?" (To be continued.) )