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Li Shougui came to the capital in the name of New Year's Day of the Song Dynasty.

The exposure of the alliance between the Western Xia and the Song Dynasty was beneficial to the Western Xia, but for fear that the Song people would be annoyed and angry, it seemed that it was still a long-term game, and there was no written text, so the Khitan did not know about it so far. Zheng Lang was enthusiastic, Li Shougui came, Zheng Lang was very happy, this person was easier to fool, it was too troublesome to deal with Yang Shousu, after a hypocritical conversation, he was not only polite, but also gave enough face. Since the Tangut people dealt with Zheng Lang, almost no one could enjoy Zheng Lang's treatment. Li Shougui almost didn't know the world.

Get down to business.

Zheng Langsi paid for a moment and said: "In this way, the ice and snow will melt in March next year, the transportation will be convenient, and the checkpoints and forts on all roads from the security army to Yanzhou will be released, how about it?" ”

"Okay, okay," Li Shougui rubbed his hands excitedly.

If Yang Shousu was here, he would definitely think of some reasons. It can't be too early, if Xixia gets the salt profit, and the envoy of Tun Balgusi does not leave, Xixia eats his stomach, and then wipes his mouth and says that I didn't eat, it must become a big joke.

After more than two months, the Western Xia will make an agreement with the Tun Vulgusi, and under the pressure of the Khitan, the Tun Vulgusi will be loyal to his tribe and approach the direction of the Western Xia, so as to respond to each other. When the time comes, no matter how cunning the brothers and sisters are, they can't tell. Xia Liao will have a long-term relationship because of this!

It can't be too late, too late Nong Zhigao has moved, and the Western Xia people will have other ideas, whoever makes the Song Dynasty almost become a big piece of meat, everyone wants to come and take a bite, Khitan, Western Xia, and even the later Guys and Brothers, Nong Zhigao, Jiaozhi. and the barbarians all over the South.

Li Shougui danced with his hands, Zheng Lang patted him on the shoulder, and said: "As long as you Xixia have no hostility towards our dynasty, you can be the lord of the country with peace of mind." I will not sit idly by and watch your Western Xia let the Khitan embezzle. ”

"Zheng Xianggong, I will definitely report Zheng Langgong's words to the Queen Mother."

"Thank you."

"That dare, it should be our Xia Guo, thank you Zheng Xianggong."

Li Shougui's words should not be taken seriously, if you want the Western Xia not to be hostile to the Song Dynasty, it is impossible, who let the Song Dynasty be a big fat meat and lamb in the eyes of all the surrounding countries. Walking out, Zheng Lang looked at the gray sky and sighed: "What a picture." ”

Spring returns to the earth, and a new year is coming.

The imperial court sent Wang Yaochen, the prime minister of the Western Mansion, Wang Shouzhong, the great eunuch, and Chen Xu, the counselor, to compare the Qingli and Huang You's financial endowments. Straw counts, money counts, silk counts. In fact, it may be less than one hundred, which is about the same as the consistent, about 800 Wen), the highest number of Qingli is more than 160 million, and the highest expenditure is more than 180 million, the cause of the war. And it was only a little more than 100 million, but Shengsheng forcibly collected more than 40 million, how much burden did it cause to the people?

After the end of the Qingli War, the country began to rest and recuperate, and the financial income decreased year by year. At one time, it dropped to 130 million (the statistics in history were 126,251,964 in the first year of the emperor's reign, and it recovered slightly, and there were too many disasters, so he had to increase taxes, and all of them were used.) This takes the median number of the year as the formula, and uses it as a reference figure for national taxes and expenditures. The accumulation is not heavy, but the country has many disasters and difficulties, and although the people have rested, the country's deficit is getting heavier and heavier. The increase in income brought by Zheng Lang was only 130 million, which was much lighter than in history), because of the early reduction of troops, and the expenditure remained at less than 12 million, which led to a slight surplus in the third division. The highest expenditure was in the eighth year of Qingli, the large-scale reduction and resettlement of troops, the bursting of the Yellow River, and many other things, Zheng Lang spent lavishly, resulting in an expenditure of more than 16 million, so the three divisions were empty again. …,

Then Chenguang became better, and in the first year of the emperor's reign, the expenditure was only 130 million, which was only the expenditure under the introduction of various policies to benefit the people, as well as the issuance of the world's debts, bank costs, otherwise less. The income is increasing, reaching 140 million, not because of the people, but by more than 20 million yuan due to the increase in the income of the safety supervision, the increase in commercial taxes, and the expansion of the scale of the city, which is actually nearly 10 million less than in history. In the second year of Huang You's reign, due to bank expenditures, disaster relief, water conservancy and other expenditures, it still reached nearly 110 million yuan, but his income increased slightly. Huang You's expenditure in the three years was the least, only slightly more than 100 million, and the income reached more than 143 million, mainly due to the increase in commercial taxes.

As a result, it is not only the effect of the reduction of troops, but also the efficiency of Zhongshu and the saving of a lot of unnecessary expenses, Zheng Lang has repeatedly restrained Zhao Zhen from spending money. Otherwise, the actual expenditure on the implementation of a large number of water conservancy projects will be much weaker than in history.

In the case of state revenue and expenditure alone, the bank is set up separately at the beginning of the first year, and there is no dividend, but this year it will pay dividends in May, and a large amount of income will be generated. Regardless of the banks, if we continue to develop like this, we will be able to generate a surplus of more than 30 million yuan in a year's state revenue, excluding expenditures. In fact, in the past three years, the state has saved more than 60 million yuan, which is equivalent to more than 50 million yuan, which has flowed into the three divisions and the internal treasury respectively.

Wang Yaochen reported the situation one by one at the court meeting, and then looked at Zheng Lang with admiration.

This is only part of Zheng Lang's implementation of his ideas, if all of them are implemented, how rich will the country be?

There was silence in the main hall.

The ministers only know that in the past few years, the country has been under great governance, but they do not know that the great governance has reached such a point, and the country is not Tai, and the people are not at peace. There was the rebellion of Wang Ze, and then for four consecutive years the country was plagued by disasters, and this miracle was still achieved.

One by one, they looked at Zheng Lang with awe-inspiring eyes.

Zheng Lang was silent, he looked very beautiful, once he used troops on a large scale in the south, these surpluses would be consumed one by one.

If you use troops against Western Xia, you have to prepare more money.

Zhao Zhen asked, "Zhuqing, what do you say?" ”

What should I do if I have money, but there is too much money?

Pang Ji said: "Your Majesty, although the country has a surplus day by day, but the people have the pain of salt, tea, alum and wine, and the taxes are still very heavy, and the people everywhere are extremely poor. ”

"Quasi-play, Zhuqing, look at where you need to be exempted from taxes. I will draft the recitals of the two governments and implement them one by one. ”

There was a lot of discussion in the hall.

Zheng Lang stood up and said, "Your Majesty, although the country has a slight surplus. However, there are police in the south, and the northwest and north are ultimately major problems for the country, and they must be prevented. Qingli has been fighting for several years, and the cost has reached more than 100 million, so our dynasty has won many victories, but it has to be suspended. Once something happens to one side, the surplus is quickly depleted. If Your Majesty intends to govern the people well. Please exempt two harsh policies, one is the head money, Taizu used to collect the head money when the people paid taxes, half of it was paid to the officials, and half was used for the public use of the state. Therefore, the ministers thought that they would be removed one by one. ”

Merchants and officials have not suffered deeply, mainly poor people, and this is a surtax policy that extends beyond the two taxes.

Of course. Officials also have losses, as soon as Zheng Lang said it in front, many officials echoed it.

"The second is to increase consumption, the name is not the same, there are rice consumption, warehouse consumption, provincial consumption, official consumption, scale consumption, foot consumption, the levy rate is very confusing, Qingli seven years, Guangde Army age Miao rice, at the beginning of the country, the Department of Tianjin moved to Xuanzhou Shuiyang Town to send. Subsequently, the households were inconvenient to block the heavy lake, and begged for the army's warehouse, which was to consume three liters of rice per bucket on the seedlings, and charge the cost of Xuancang's foot multiplication. The people of all walks of life have lost taxes and paid taxes, which is already half of the endowment. If you pay three or seven more consumption, how will the people spend their lives? Jiangxi Zhulu also clearly stipulates that the people nano stone, must pay a bucket of rice, often the heavy plus a bucket, some greedy officials actually add a stone, so that the people are not living. Compared with the past few years, the pile thrower in the Cao Division is the light consumption, and the state and county dark pile is the dark consumption. Honest officials did pay it to the imperial court to help with funds, but most of them were greedy officials and put it into their private pockets in the name of entering the public treasury. The minister thought that it was necessary to abolish the consumption of any one in the world in order to live the people. ”…,

If these two items are subtracted, the state revenue will only be reduced by a few million, but if it is actually implemented, the officials will not be able to do anything about the additional consumption and the money of the chief, and they must transfer it to other projects, or they will directly embezzle ink, which will reduce the revenue of the two taxes by 10 million. Or simply abolish the two taxes together, and then there will be a huge black hole. Just like Zhao Zhen's previous policy of letting salt benefit the people, the state gave one point of profit, but when it came to the local government, it needed five points, or even ten, several ten.

If the two policies are implemented, it is unknown how much the state will reduce the revenue of the two taxes, but Zhao Zhen said: "Accurate." ”

Subsequently, the ministers played some lenient policies.

Some of the books can be adopted and some cannot be adopted, but even if some of them are adopted, it will reduce the national revenue by more than 10 million, or even close to 20 million. Of course, the common people will breathe a sigh of relief.

Good governance, a new year and a new situation, one after another good governance edicts were issued, and the people of the whole country cheered.

So much so that when watching the lanterns, standing on the city tower, looking at the people who were very grateful to the court for all kinds of good governance, and all the people who bowed down, Zhao Zhen was very moved to take Zheng Lang's hand and said: "Zheng Qing, you are my Wang Meng and Guan Zhong." ”

"Your Majesty, the minister only wants to be Your Majesty's Zhang Liang, Xiao He, and Fang Du, not Guan Zhong, Wang Meng, Tang and Song (referring to Fu Jian, Qi Huangong, and Tang Xuanzong, the three emperors who ended badly in the end)."

The four Khitan envoys also looked at the pair of monarchs and ministers with envy.

Zhongshu came out with nearly 10 good governance in one breath, which caused a sensation all over the world, and the news of more than 30 million savings last year also spread.

Many literati and writers wrote poems for the arrival of the prosperous age. There are also some miscellaneous dramas singing about the glory of the world. The people were also very moved. If it weren't for the Western Xia and Khitan, the Song Dynasty would have become almost a fantastic country.

The four Khitan envoys felt a pity in their hearts, this son would not be used by the Khitan in the end, otherwise this Chenguang would be Khitan's.

A wonderful new year is coming.

followed by the national competition, and the heavy text should also be martial, Zheng Lang did not make much excuse for this, but only did not say anything, so as not to cause controversy.

The second big competition, due to financial reasons, was larger than the first time, Zhao Zhen was secretive and asked Zheng Lang if he could add some new forbidden soldiers. After all, Pang Ji was cut again, and the number of forbidden soldiers was less than 600,000, so he had no confidence in his heart, and there might be changes in the south, so he had to take precautions in advance.

Zheng Lang agreed, not only is there something going on in the south, the scale of the campaign will be several times larger than in history, and in addition, it has always adopted the method of labor relief to relieve the disaster, blocking the important source of redundant troops from the source, but the original forbidden soldiers will get old year by year, and they will be reduced one by one, and the number of troops is too small, and Zheng Lang himself is not very relieved. 600,000, or a little more than 600,000, 300,000 van soldiers, plus some native soldiers, township soldiers, and Tibetan soldiers. The local baoding, archers and strong men are supplemented, which is the standard of the Song Dynasty in Zheng Lang's heart.

In the forbidden area, the task was basically exceeded. However, when the war came, the forbidden army was still the main source of soldiers. It's too little, and he's not very relieved. Acquiesced in Zhao Zhen's addition of more than 11,000 van soldiers, baoding, archers, strong men, native soldiers, and township soldiers from this big competition, and added them to the forbidden army.

Zheng Lang secretly mobilized some soldiers to come to Beijing to assemble.

These soldiers may not be the bravest, but they all have a history of travel, and it is a good saying that they have expanded overseas to defend themselves against the local natives. They were also often used to capture indigenous people as slaves. Compared with Westerners, the Song Dynasty did not do very bloody, this is a civilized country, Zheng Lang himself has repeatedly ordered not to be too cruel, treat them well when appropriate, teach them to plant, build houses, and give clothes and silk tools. Deprive them of surplus value, while at the same time giving them a way out. In fact, compared to the original lifestyle, these indigenous people slash and burn, and even eat their dead relatives as food. It's not too bitter, it has to get better. …,

However, it may not be possible to implement it below, and the management practices near some mineral deposits are too harsh, and the natives themselves do not accept it, and there are wars from time to time, so it is often necessary to garrison a large number of soldiers overseas a year, some of which reach nearly 20,000 people, and some of which have nearly 10,000 people. There are risks at sea, tropical climate. Death was sacrificed one after another, so they were paid handsomely, but there were still many soldiers who were reluctant to go. The soldiers who went were all from disadvantaged families and were forcibly apportioned to the past. In order to treat the court well, it is mostly rotated every three or two years.

The 50,000 soldiers who were requisitioned in rotation were recruited, and most of them were forbidden troops. The small half are van soldiers and strong men and archers from all over the country. Once again, more than 10,000 strong men, van soldiers and archers were charged into the forbidden army. The Xiang soldiers got their wish, and Zheng Lang was reduced to less than 300,000, but the forbidden army increased again to 620,000. It's still a tolerable range.

These forbidden soldiers have been transferred to the capital one after another, but they have great uses, one is that they can more or less adapt to the scorching hot climate in the south, and most of them have experience in fighting in tropical rainforests and mountain forests. There are other similarities, compared to the southern barbarians, the indigenous people in overseas places have many differences, the population is smaller, the weapons are backward, but there are many similarities, good climbing, running in the dense forest, scattered armies, and so on. This style of combat is very different from that on the northern battlefield.

Letting other northern forbidden soldiers go to the south may not be able to adapt, but these soldiers will not have these problems.

Zhao Zhen asked in surprise: "Zheng Qing, did you guess this day?" ”

Zheng Lang shook his head: "Your Majesty, the minister doesn't know either, until Nong Zhigao tried several times to find out what was wrong, and the minister was worried about the south, he didn't think of this part of the soldiers." ”

Speaking of this, I was very ashamed in my heart, Nong Zhigao rebelled, he came to the Song Dynasty to know, but the Ping An Jian was established for more than ten years, and he never thought of it, let alone started the Ping An Jian There are many wars overseas, and it is accompanied by targeted actual combat training. It wasn't until a few months ago that Zheng Lang thought of sending troops to the south that he thought of this army.

But it's not good news yet.

Although the south is a big problem, it is far less serious than that of Western Xia and Khitan.

Then came the good news.

With the support of the Song Dynasty, the brothers and sisters of Wuzang became emboldened. At least they believe in Li Shougui more than Yang Shousu.

made an agreement with the envoys of the Tun Balgus, and secretly sent 10,000 soldiers to infiltrate the Tun Balgus Department, and launched a surprise attack on the Huode Thorn with the big chiefs who were dissatisfied with the Khitan, Wu Lide, and Ge Pelis.

Unprepared, several armies arrived dozens of miles away from their tribe only to learn, in a hurry, too late to prepare for war, a battle and defeated, Huode Thorn and his brother had to take their wives and sons, escape from the Khitan. Tun Gusi and Uride and others quickly divided up the people of the Huode Thorn tribe, and then gathered all the tribes, some of the tribes were not satisfied, and the tribes fled to the Khitan, and the two tribes were once again attacked devastatingly. After unifying the northern Bubu tribes of Wushan, Tun Gusi led a large army to attack the ancient Uighur city (Woluduo City, where the Khitan set up the palace of the Great King of Beizhubu), and then sent Zhaozhou, Victoria (Hadasang), Zhenzhou (Keduncheng), and Fangzhou, and defeated the garrison of the Khitan Northwest Recruitment Division.

However, he was afraid of the Khitan, but only defeated, and when the Khitan armies were defeated, they did not dare to pursue and killed more. This is a serious mistake, since he has rebelled and returned to Western Xia, he is simply brave to the end, but Tun Vulgusi himself has shown cowardice, so what do his subordinates think?

Otherwise, this time the Khitan will really face the biggest crisis since the founding of the country.

After a series of actions, Tun Balgusi led his troops to rebel against Liao and return to Xia, and the Wuzang clan canonized him as the Taishi and blocked the king. Marry the daughter of his clan and marry her.

After the news came out, the Khitan country was shocked.

The Song Dynasty also received a steady stream of news, and many ministers were close to each other. Xia and Liao have today's situation, which is almost single-handedly promoted by Zheng Lang. Fortunately, fortunately, if Zheng Lang was a native of Liao, or a native of Western Xia, the Song Dynasty would be in danger. …,

To this day, no one has any doubts about the special service battalion.

Commendation for the bravery of the Tangut people. The Song Dynasty opened up the Yanyun Road border as promised, because of the benefits of illegal salt, the Western Xia and Shaanxi smuggling merchants formed a complex underground network. Zheng Lang gave plenty of time, and for a while, there were carts and ponies at the border of the Western Xia on Yanyun Road, and the Western Xia almost took out all kinds of means of transportation and desperately transported green salt to the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty really didn't stop it, but suddenly Fan Xiang came to Yanyun Road. This is also the only candidate that Zheng Lang can come up with. It is not Bao Zheng who hates the insatiable greed of the powerful, but Ye Qingchen, who died. The second is not Bao Zheng, but Fan Xiang.

He brought a large number of soldiers to check the illegal salt, the border did not ask, the merchants had to put the private salt in various places on the border, and then sent people to ask the court, since the court promised to let the flow of Western Xia green salt to the Song Dynasty, why did Fan Xiang come to check the illegal salt? What does Shenma mean?

After a block, the scale of private salt circulation slowed down, but within a month, it still allowed the Western Xia to flow into close to one million stone blue salt, and the profit reached at least three or four million. It was not provided by the Song Dynasty government. Rather, it was the wealth provided by the major merchants of the Song Dynasty. With this batch of money, Western Xia had more confidence to confront the Khitan.

Because of the release of private salt in January, the Song Dynasty did not buy large livestock at a high price, but the Tangut people were not satisfied, and took advantage of the situation of blocking the Bu to surrender to the Song Dynasty, and trafficked the livestock of the various departments to the Song Dynasty. If it's possible. At this time, the territory of the Western Xia extended to the Tuura River (southwest of Ulaanbaatar) in the west, the Jinshan Uighurs in the west, the Tubo in the south, and Fuzhou in the east, and the area was almost two-thirds of that of the Song Dynasty. But the population is still sparse and will not exceed five million people.

Liao Xingzong almost fainted, gritted his teeth and said, "Kill, kill!" ”

What I was worried about was that Xixia would do this, and sure enough, it did. However, the war also had to be prepared, and the mobilization of troops and planning began, and the more tragic war began.

The Great War of the Song Dynasty was also on the verge of breaking out.

Zheng Lang is still slow and methodical, not in a hurry.

After receiving the complaints from the merchants, Zheng Lang sent a request to reprimand these merchants, when did the state issue an edict to allow these merchants to buy Western Xia green salt. The merchants can't answer, and they can't do without the permission of the edict, on the contrary, the state edict is to cut off the people who are private in the Western Xia Qingyan!

Over the years, Zheng Lang has been sending people to secretly record the smuggling of green salt from various merchants, and with the issuance of the reprimand, he used a thunderbolt to arrest more than a dozen businessmen in the worst situation, and beheaded them at the security army. Fan Xiang led the army to investigate, and nearly one million stone blue salt were confiscated.

The various businessmen suffered heavy losses, but they were all powerful, and many ministers impeached Zheng Lang for doing Zheng Zhuang's practice of raising Gongshu Duan, deliberately tempting businessmen to smuggle, and there were cool laws to harm him. was rejected by Zhao Zhen one by one. At the same time, Zheng Lang issued an edict saying that if these businessmen instigated the people to make trouble again, the officials would advise them to investigate the crimes they had committed one by one, and those who had deeds in the peace prison and the bank would be confiscated. Some officials who were very noisy were demoted from the court one by one. The opposition weakened.

This was the most severe practice since Zheng Lang came to power, and it also taught the most painful lesson to the smugglers on the border. Then many of the illegal salt passages on the border between the Western Xia and the Song Dynasty were closed one by one, and since then, the amount of illegal salt has officially declined.

Western Xia also got this news, and didn't care, anyway, the benefits have been put into the pocket, no matter how the Song Dynasty tossed.

At the end of April, the bank began to settle the surplus, and in three and a half years, the imperial court minted a total of more than 41 million taels of coinage, more than 13 million taels of silver, and 1.1 million taels of gold.

How much currency does the Song Dynasty need to meet its circulation, has become a mystery in the hearts of many people, Zheng Lang is also a mystery in his heart, but there is one, only less than 70 million yuan of currency will definitely not meet the needs of the Song Dynasty, to the fall of the Song Dynasty, the actual increase in currency to more than 300 million yuan, is still insufficient, let alone 70 million yuan. He estimated that even 70 million taels multiplied by 10 would probably be insufficient, and it was possible that at least more than 1 billion taels of coinage would be needed to make up for the amount of money in circulation. …,

There is another problem, the surplus of the imperial court, the treasury and the three divisions have a large amount of money, grain and cloth, which reduces the amount of money that needs to be circulated in the market. This problem is unsolvable.

suppressed a large number of gold, silver and copper, but also caused some people to be dissatisfied, after all, the people need a large number of metal casting utensils, or to make jewelry, helpless. But there are not many ministers who are clearly aware of this problem.

Let's keep an eye on the bank's income.

The results came out, some disappointed, some satisfied.

The surplus in the two years is a total of more than 30 million yuan, not counting last year's grass, mainly this year, the profit is more than 20 million yuan. Many people overestimate it and are disappointed. But those who are not overestimated are very satisfied, this figure will increase year by year, only after private dividends can be close to 15 million, and the investment, in addition to 20 million yuan to buy stocks, 40 million yuan, close to 4 to 1 annual recovery rate, far higher than the return of many industries.

Even if the loan shark bears the notoriety and makes many people hate it, it seems that the interest rate is as high as 60 to 300 percent, but in fact many accounts cannot be recovered, and the real income will not exceed 40 percent.

Thinking about it this way, I am still very satisfied.

The most satisfying is still the imperial court, which is only the capital of the seventeen states, and the principal is insufficient, otherwise it will be promoted to the whole country, how much income will be increased in a year? Don't use 100 million, as long as you have 50 million yuan, the Song Dynasty will be developed. The dividends of the private people were divided, and the dividends of the imperial court did not move, but continued to be deposited in the bank and charged interest. One is to increase the principal in the next expansion, and the other is to keep these currencies in the market, otherwise there will be no money and the banks will be dull.

In this regard, the monarchs and ministers did not quite understand, Zheng Lang said it, and agreed. Then think about the three divisions and the vast wealth in the inner treasury, many people were dazzled by Jin Liang. According to a news from the palace, Zhao Zhen suddenly shouted a sentence in his sleep: "A lot of money." ”

Hearing this rumor, many people smiled knowingly.

It was so satisfying that the Song Dynasty had never stored so much money since its founding.

Zheng Lang is also very satisfied, this is the Song Dynasty since the founding of the country, with the healthiest economy, facing the upcoming fierce war! (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )