Zhao Huan nodded slowly, thought about it, and said: "What Peng Zhan said is reasonable, the Great Song Dynasty has a large population, but the land is slightly insufficient, if the land of Liaodong is really so fertile, it can be ripe every year, and it can also feed many people, Peng Zhan, you also draw up a fold of this matter, I will take a look at it first, and then discuss it with Dongfu, if it is feasible, it will be settled first, and after the Jurchens are destroyed, it will be implemented." ”

Yue turned his head and nodded: "The minister obeys the order." ”

Zhao Huan raised his head and looked at the sky: "It's almost noon, I'm also a little hungry, Pengzhan, don't go back, have a meal with me, now Da Song is short of money, and there is nothing to entertain, I will have a meal, and there are still many things to do in the afternoon." ”

Yue Fan hurriedly got up and thanked: "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

Zhao Huan waved his hand, took Yue Flip to the place where he ate, and after eating, after a little rest, Yue Flip came to the place where he worked in Zhongshu Province, which is also the place where he worked, Prime Minister Zhao Ding has been working here for a long time, every day is the first to come, the last to leave, sometimes busy, but also day and night to stay here without moving, very conscientious.

This famous prime minister of Zhongxing in another time and space is a staunch anti-gold faction, and he cooperates with him, Yue Chuan feels very smooth, he has his own persistence and beliefs like Li Gang, but he does not have the shortcomings of Li Gang's character of self-righteousness, he is more gentle, more rational, does not quarrel with subordinates, and will not oppress people with power, but he will not compromise easily, convince people with reason, convince people with morality, and be decent, which is one of the best candidates for prime minister.

Yue Chuan was very willing to cooperate with him.

However, at this time, Zhao Ding's brows were tightly locked, as if he had encountered some problem, Yue Fu came to Zhao Ding and saluted him: "Xianggong." ”

Zhao Ding's constricted brows loosened slightly. Raising his head, he looked at Yue Turn. smiled slightly: "Peng Zhan is here, sit down." It just so happens that you are here, this matter is more involved, and I don't know how to deal with it, you can take a look, let's discuss, the military department and the Privy Council have made an excerpt, and want to increase the military expenditure of the household department to expand the cavalry army and build equipment. In preparation for the Jurchen war, His Majesty gave it to the old man after reading it, and let the old man watch and deal with it.

This request is reasonable and not excessive, but at present, the imperial court's finances are tight, and the taxes obtained by various transit routes have dropped significantly, and His Majesty has also ordered the exemption of taxes ranging from one year to five years in many places, so it is said. At present, the Great Song Dynasty is very short of money, and the taxes collected in the two years, three years, and two years of Jingkang together are not as much as the taxes collected in the five years and half of the year of Xuanhe, and four out of ten have already been allocated for military spending, and money is needed everywhere. Where is there so much money for the army?

It takes money to build water conservancy, and although the construction of the Great Wall does not have to be borne by the people, it also requires money. Money is needed to repair the city and defend it, and it costs money to resettle the homeless. Money is needed everywhere, even for bureaucrats such as me to eat. Money money money, the most annoying thing these days is money, you can't do anything without money! Alas! If the weather is warm at that time, those generals are estimated to be shouting about the Northern Expedition again, Your Majesty will inevitably agree, and when the time comes, how can there be money to fight! ”

Zhao Ding was full of helplessness, so he almost sold his house for money to the imperial court, but that was just a drop in the bucket, Zhao Ding himself was also very clear about the current situation of the Great Song Dynasty, where money must be used, there is no compromise at all, otherwise you can't survive, how can you make progress?

Yue Pan sat down, took the fold and looked at it, and frowned: "Didn't Your Majesty order the property and some jewels and jade that his subordinates led the army to take back from the Jurchens in order to raise money?" ”

Zhao Ding nodded: "It is true that a lot of them have been sold, most of them are bought by the rich people in Jiangnan and Shuzhong, and they have gained a lot of money, but for the entire Great Song Dynasty, it is still a drop in the bucket, far from enough, and now that part of the money has been almost used, if it were not for the fact that the Western Army captured a large number of cattle, sheep and horses, they could barely provide themselves with a part of their food, and even the Western Army would have to run out of food." ”

Yue Fan never thought that the situation was so serious: "Is it really so serious? Can't get enough of a daily supply? ”

Zhao Ding sighed and said: "Since the capital of Beijing, there is no day that is stable, the people can not live in peace and resume farming, the imperial court naturally has no grain to collect, and it can't even buy it, so it can only get some grain from some of the richer and less injured places, and in the process of transshipment to the north, there will be some losses, and less than a third of them really arrive in Beijing, Peng Zhan, the Jiangnan South Road you ruled before is now the most important grain tax place in the Great Song Dynasty. The tax revenue on grain can be compared with half of Jiangnan. ”

Yue turned did not feel happy, only felt very worried, from the beginning of the Xuanhe years, the rich Jiangnan has been constantly destroyed and tossed, first Emperor Huizong's Huashi Gang, and then the Fangla Rebellion, which destroyed a small half of the Jiangnan, the battle of Fangla, and let most of the Jiangnan suffer, before the recovery for a long time, the Jin soldiers went south, Hebei was eroded, completely useless, Jiangbei and Henan became a battlefield, the beacon was in flames, the battle of counterattack, Shuzhong poured all its strength to help the Western Army fight, and there was no spare strength to provide anything.

In the entire Great Song Dynasty, there was no stable place that could provide enough food and taxes, and the farthest south of the sea, the land of Lingnan, was more stable, but transporting grain from there was a bad brain.

Yue Pan pondered for a while, and then said, "Xianggong, do you know about the former Sui Grand Canal?" ”

Zhao Ding frowned and nodded: "Everyone in the world thinks that the former Sui Grand Canal was built by Yang Guang to satisfy his selfish desires, but he didn't know that it was to transport grain from the south of the Yangtze River to the north for the use of the expedition to Goguryeo at that time, but now part of the Grand Canal has been blocked by blockage, even if it is to transport grain by water, it is necessary to clean up the waterway first, and the waterway has been abandoned for too long, and it is definitely not something that can be cleaned up in a while." ”

Yue Chuan said: "Xianggong, the meaning of Xia Guan is not the Grand Canal, but since everyone knows that it is much more convenient to transport grain by water than by land, and the loss is much less, then why not take the water route, but take the land route?" ”

Zhao Ding was puzzled: "The Grand Canal is different, how to take the waterway?" ”

Yue chuckled: "There is no waterway, but there is a seaway." ”

Zhao Ding was stunned: "Haidao? ”

Yue nodded: "Although the Grand Canal is impassable, it will be difficult to repair it for a while. But the Great Song Dynasty had a naval army and many ships. Out of the port of the river into the sea, along the coastline all the way north. Arriving at the land of Yanyun, and then building a port on the coast of the land of Yanyun, for ships to berth, from here to transport grain by land, morning and evening, how much loss can there be? ”

Yue turned and pointed to the whole picture of the Great Song Dynasty hanging on the screen behind Zhao Ding, and pointed to the current location of the Bohai Sea.

Zhao Ding seemed to feel that in front of him, a brand new door had been opened, and with Yue Tuo's words. He was more and more sure.

"Ships are not like cattle and horses, which need to eat and rest, but ships don't need to fight, and when there is no need to fight, only a small crew is needed to steer a huge boat and go all the way north along the coastline, which may take a long time. However, both the quantity of grain goods transported and the amount of loss are far better than those of land transportation, and the cost is very small. Yue Xuan said.

Zhao Ding suddenly felt that the problem that had been bothering him for a long time seemed to have a solution, even if it was only a guess at the moment. But such speculation can also give you a little bit of confidence, a little bit of hope, and not be as troubled as you are now.

"Just. Although the transportation problem can be solved, if the land of Yanyun cannot produce its own food. Self-sufficient, so long to transport food. The Great Song Dynasty still can't afford it, so the land of Yanyun must resume farming as quickly as possible, and officials from all over the country need to recruit displaced people in the fastest time, and there is still about a month before the beginning of spring, if there is no spring ploughing today, next year's days will be even more difficult. Yue Chuan added again.

Zhao Ding nodded, thought for a while, and said to Yue Xuan: "Peng Zhan, I will write a letter to Your Majesty about this matter, let Your Majesty decide, and then we will implement it immediately, the food in the land of Yanyun cannot be broken for a moment, once it is broken, the people's hearts will be moved, but it will be bad, as for the matter of the army's request to increase military spending, how do you think it is better to deal with it?" ”

Yue Chuan felt a little embarrassed: "This matter, you need to negotiate with the generals in the army to see if the army really needs so much money, so let's go to meet Zong Shuai and Yue Shuai later, and then go to meet Wu Shumi, and ask if the military expenses are definitely needed, whether they are very urgent, if they are not in a hurry, they will press down this money, and when the time comes, they will be urgently allocated. ”

Zhao Ding agreed, and then picked up the pen and began to write the recital, Yue turned over and retired, and went to the Privy Council to find Wu Yong.

When the Great Song Dynasty was about to start a new round of changes, Luda's plan was also in full swing, although Zheng Wei hadn't brought the news back, and he didn't even know if Zheng Wei could come back, but Luda still had to prepare everything, and prepared two sets of plans, one was the night attack plan after the success, and the other was the attack plan after the matter was revealed.

Ruda did not intend to retreat, from the moment he left Beijing, he did not intend to retreat.

According to the original plan, the final general attack, he can get the support of the other two armies with a total of 4,000 cavalry, if there are 4,000 cavalry, Luda is really sure that he can inflict a devastating blow to the Jurchens without Zheng Wei, but these 4,000 cavalry still have their own tasks, and they need to wait until they complete the task before they can join Luda, and I don't know if they can successfully complete the mission and reach Huanglong Mansion.

At present, Ruda is on his own, on his 1,000 brothers.

He didn't know if Zheng Wei could succeed, but he was out day and night, waiting for Zheng Wei's news, and in the tormented waiting, Luda would also think of his life all the time, and he heard Lin Chong say in the interval between the previous wars, Lin Chong said that his master Zhou Tong once said that before people die, they always like to think about their lives, and those who can think of it will all think of it at that moment, all regrets, all happiness and sadness.

Ruda gradually remembered many people and many things that he had forgotten, and he couldn't stop thinking about it, and when he was roasting at night, he thought about all those things, the flower-like girl he used to secretly like, is it okay now? The old man who had been stolen by himself, is he okay? Is the woman who had been stolen from the green leafy vegetables in the field by herself?

The little friend who stole the chickens from the richest family in the village and roasted them together with him is still alive? Is the little guy who used cow dung to attack the unscrupulous tax collector with him still alive now? Are they all okay?

What is the purpose of a person's life? To eat and drink Lazar? Or eat, drink and be merry? (To be continued.) )