On the last day of July of the second year of the Yuan Dynasty, the detailed results of the Battle of the Ninth Xia, which ended in the Battle of Haoshuichuan in the Song Dynasty, were finally counted, and Zhao Lei also returned to Yan'an Mansion to prepare for the second southern invasion of Western Xia at any time. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo/。 qВ5、\

Yan'an Mansion was already crowded, and more than 100,000 troops gathered in Yan'an Mansion were stationed in several cottages not far from Yan'an Mansion, echoing each other and passively waiting for the southern invasion of Western Xia.

In the Yan'an Mansion, Fan Zhongyan invited the five brains of the Yan'an Mansion garrison to discuss the troublesome matter that had just appeared.

Although Zhao Lei is in charge of all the soldiers and horses on the Yongxing Military Road, Fan Zhongyan serves as the prefect of Yan'an, which belongs to the civilian system, although he can order Fan Zhongyan to be the prefect of Yan'an during the war, but after the war, he does not govern each other, so he and Fan Zhongyan sit on both sides of the study, and Han Qi, Guo Chengyou, Zhang Zi, and Xia Sui, the commanders of the Bianjing Forbidden Army, whose positions in the army are only under Zhao Lei, sit under Zhao Lei.

"I heard that the economic losses of Yongxing Military Road have been counted?" Zhao Lei and Fan Zhongyan were in charge of military and political affairs, and after the end of the Song and Xia War, Fan Zhongyan also counted the economic losses of the war, but Zhao Lei hadn't seen the account yet, so he asked Fan Zhongyan casually.

"Yes! Very miserable, Xixia is worthy of the name of the wolf, where it passes, a mess, chickens and dogs are not left, the materials in those cities that were broken by the Xixia were looted by the Xixia, the heaviest loss is still Jinmingzhai, Jinmingzhai as a large village of 100,000 soldiers and horses, grain, grass and ordnance are numerous, although the village burned a batch before the break, but most of them were robbed by the Xixia people, this time the Xixia invaded the south, the Yongxing military road lost nearly 1.8 million taels of silver materials, but these things are in addition to being consumed by the Xixia army part, The rest was snatched back by adults! Fan Zhongyan first shook his head with emotion. Then looked at Zhao Lei and said with a smile.

Fan Zhongyan said it well, most of the ordnance materials looted by Western Xia, except for some of the beggar troops left in Yan'an Mansion, the rest of the materials left by Renduo Baoren in Weijiazhai or Yuan Hao in Haoshuichuan were all captured by Zhao Lei, and most of these seizures were looted from the Song Realm in Western Xia.

Although many of Zhao Lei's seizures are the same as the losses reported by Fan Zhongyan, after all, these materials have passed through the hands of the Western Xia Army, and even if the seizures and losses are the same thing, Zhao Lei will not return them to Fan Zhongyan, and those seizures are all credits. It was Zhao Lei's hundreds of thousands of soldiers who exchanged their lives for it, and before the imperial court issued a decree to reward and order it to be returned to Yan'an Mansion, Zhao Lei would not return it to Fan Zhongyan.

Fan Zhongyan saw that Zhao Lei was silent with a smile, knowing that he didn't want to get some assistance from him, he could only wait for the order of the imperial court, so he changed the topic and asked, "The detailed battle report in the army has also come out?" I heard that the imperial court wants to sacrifice prisoners and bring the corpses of Rindo and Baoren back to Bianjing? ”

"Not bad! The two great victories of Haoshuichuan and Weizhou made the official family and the imperial court very pleased, the commendation order has come down, and all kinds of rewards are still on the way, the imperial court asked the official to send people to send the corpses of more than 20 generals of Western Xia, such as Renduo Baoren, as well as the more than 7,000 prisoners, to Bianjing, and the imperial court agreed to the official's plan at the same time. He has sent envoys to unite the Hui and Ao Gul in the northwest of Western Xia to attack Xia again, and at the same time send 50,000 reinforcements. It is estimated that it will arrive in Yan'an Mansion in a month. Zhao Lei carefully explained Bianjing's will to Fan Zhongyan and said.

"The two great victories of Haoshuichuan and Weizhou are indeed exciting, but if this detailed battle report leaks out, it is estimated that not so many people will be happy." Han Qi took out a detailed battle report with a bitter face and handed it to Fan Zhongyan and said bitterly.

Fan Zhongyan took Han Qidi's battle report suspiciously, and after reading it, the smile on his face suddenly lost and became painful.

Although this Song-Xia confrontation was nominally a temporary victory for the Great Song Dynasty, the basis of the victory was based on the heavy losses of the Song army.

When Zhao Lei did not come to Yan'an Mansion, the Western Xia had already defeated the Song army and lost no less than 50,000 soldiers and horses. After Zhao Lei saved all the soldiers and horses on the Yongxing Military Road, although Renduo Baoren was forced to abandon the village and flee in the battle of Weijiazhai, the entire army of 20,000 soldiers and horses under his command was annihilated, but it brought the same number of casualties to Zhao Lei.

The results of the Battle of Weizhou are even more shocking. Things are like Yang Wenguang trapped in Gyeongju, and the Song army in the Weizhou offensive and defensive battle also pulled all the young men in Weizhou City to the city, and Yuan Hao suffered heavy losses in this battle. But after the war, Weizhou was the same as Gyeongju, Dai Xiao, Han Qi and Guo Chengyou's 50,000 soldiers and horses were 20,000 casualties, and the number of casualties among the defenders of Weizhou and the young and strong in the city reached as many as 30,000.

And the battle of Haoshuichuan, before Zhao Lei's ambush was out, although Han Qi's main force did not suffer much loss, but the small force responsible for blocking the Xixia cavalry suffered heavy losses, Gao Zunping and the other two troops were almost disabled, and after the battle, they collected the defeated troops, and they knew that their losses were as high as 8,000, but after Zhao Lei's ambush appeared, the Western Xia army was completely defeated, and only the Western Xia cavalry who desperately broke through brought 4,000 casualties to the Song army, and there were no other large number of casualties, but the small-scale casualties were countless.

Ren Fu plundered the casualties paid by many tribes in Western Xia, and the casualties paid by Fan Zhongyan and Yeli Yuqi against the Yan'an Mansion, all kinds of losses added up to an astonishing 130,000.

Think about the Western Xia's southern invasion of Yuan Hao, although the loss of 100,000 troops, but also caused 130,000 casualties to the Great Song Dynasty, this kind of victory that was more heavy than the enemy's casualties was only a victory for political purposes, and militarily, the Great Song Dynasty did not take advantage of a little.

However, Fan Zhongyan came to his heart, and he was a little relieved when he thought about it, because nearly half of the 130,000 losses of the Great Song Dynasty came from the losses of the people in the cities of Qingzhou and Weizhou, and the Great Song Dynasty came from the elite of Bianjing and the border army, and the losses were not very large, and the 100,000 horses and horses lost by Yuanhao of Western Xia in this southern invasion were the elites of Xiping Mansion and Xingqing Mansion.

"But the trouble after the victory is finally here?" After Fan Zhongyan digested the pain caused by the battle report, Zhao Lei finally mentioned that Fan Zhongyan invited them to come

"Yes! The trouble finally came, and now there was a shortage of money again in the imperial court, and there was no extra money left to support the war on the front. Fan Zhongyan heard Zhao Lei's words, and also sighed and said to everyone in the room.

"Money shortage! The court has no money? How can it be! Ye Qingchen has hundreds of millions of real money in his hands, how can he have no money? Hearing Fan Zhongyan's words. Guo Chengyou immediately asked in astonishment.

Only Zhao Lei, Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi, the three generals who were born in civil officials, knew about the money shortage, and the others heard about it for the first time, and it was inevitable to be shocked.

"Just as General Guo said, of course Ye Qingchen's Sansi Yamen has money, and there are a lot of them, but those are real gold, silver is already very small, and copper coins are so scarce that they need to be left!" Fan Zhongyan replied with a wry smile.

Fan Zhongyan said it so clearly, everyone understood, it turned out that the imperial court was now in a silver and copper shortage. And not a real money shortage.

However, the silver and copper shortage is not inferior to the money shortage, you must know that the currency of the Great Song Dynasty has always been dominated by copper coins, gold and silver are auxiliary currencies for large-scale transactions, and very little is really used, all of them are things held by the rich people, and the rich people in the Great Song Dynasty are only one percent, so copper coins are the main pillars supporting the economy of the Great Song Dynasty, and the copper shortage has exploded once a few years ago, when the official family and the imperial court used salt tea as an excuse to sweep away those salt tea moths. thus successfully passed the crisis, and later Zhao Lei established the logistics yamen of the new army. More found a few large mines, greatly alleviated the crisis of the imperial court money shortage, but the richer the country, the easier it is to explode this money shortage, the crisis of money shortage has always been with the Great Song Dynasty, never disappeared, and this Song and Xia battle, invested too much manpower and material resources of the imperial court, and the repair of the Yellow River old road far away in Hebei has also reached the end of the construction period, and the money is like flowing water. In recent years, the wealth of the household land has made the imperial court also squander it generously, and various reasons have taken together, so that the income brought by the salt tea cleaning and Luzon victory has been squandered a lot in a short time, and now the imperial court only has a pile of gold of high value. Both silver and copper coins could not make ends meet, and money shortages began again.

"In other words, the reward that the court said this time may be empty?" Xia Sui asked anxiously with concern.

Several generals attached great importance to the upcoming rewards of the imperial court. You must know what your subordinates are desperately trying to kill the enemy for, isn't it just to get promoted! Of course, the officials are those generals who have been promoted, but if there is no money, the result of the mutiny of the soldiers is very likely to appear, how can these generals not be in a hurry!

"The great victory in the northwest, how can the reward of the imperial court be empty! Now the reward of the imperial court is estimated to have gone to Jingzhao Mansion, and it will soon be able to come to Yan'an Mansion, but the method of reward may change! Fan Zhongyan smiled slightly and comforted these military bigwigs in the room and said.

"Change?" Zhang Zi, who was a little thin and weak, but had a shrewd and capable face, asked Fan Zhongyan suspiciously.

Han Qi, who knew the inside story, relieved everyone's confusion for Fan Zhong at this time and said, "It's very simple! The imperial court issued two reward methods, this time the reward was sent over, there were 20,000 taels of gold, and there were many silk cloths, and a large number of grain from the official warehouse of Yan'an Mansion would also be transported out to reward the soldiers, but 20,000 taels of gold and cloth and grain could only choose one! ”

Han Qi's words made the three people who didn't know the inside story stunned for a moment, and then laughed bitterly at the same time.

Gold and cloth grain are one of the types of currency that have exchange value in the Great Song Dynasty, but these things have their own shortcomings, gold is too precious, the value is too high, unless there is a big deal, no one will use this precious metal currency, and it is impossible to reward the army stationed in Yan'an Mansion, you must know that the minimum unit of gold is one money, but one penny of gold is equal to one or two silver, and how to distribute it has become the biggest problem to reward hundreds of thousands of troops with this precious metal.

Although cloth grain is also a kind of currency, but since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty to popularize Zhancheng rice, there is no shortage of grain, and the price of food is very low, a stone of rice was sold at a low price of 300 Wen at the lowest time, and the price of only 600 Wen was at the highest time, and it fluctuated up and down at 500 Wen at ordinary times, and now there is a shortage of money, the purchasing power of silver money will definitely rise, and then the price of grain will be even lower, and the same is true for cloth. Neither of these two options can meet the needs of the soldiers!

When Guo Chengyou, Zhang Zi, and Xia Sui looked embarrassed, Zhao Lei smiled slightly and said the method he had already thought of.

"A few generals don't have to be embarrassed! In fact, this kind of thing is very easy to solve, there is a shortage of money in the imperial court, and there will be no shortage of people, although gold, food, and cloth cannot meet the needs of the army, but they can meet the needs of the people! There are so many rich people in the land of Yongxing Military Road and Bazhou, who doesn't have some silver money at home! Take gold for silver, exchange silver for money, but 20,000 taels of gold, with the ability of millions of people on the Yongxing Military Road, it is not a simple matter to digest them, but it will take some time, and there is no need to worry about it at all! Zhao Lei picked up the teacup in his hand, looked at everyone in the room with a smile and said.

"My lord, this is a good idea! The lower official will send someone to do it immediately! Fan Zhongyan didn't expect Zhao Lei to solve the problem of reward so quickly, and immediately nodded admiringly.

"The Yongxing Military Road is easy to do, but the problems faced by the imperial court are not easy to handle! The imperial court has tens of millions of taels of gold, and it is impossible for the entire people of the Great Song Dynasty to digest this gold, and now they are suffering from a money shortage, and they are going to have a headache. Although he was in Yan'an Mansion, Han Qi still paid close attention to the movements of Bianjing, and after solving the problem of the reward of the northern army, he began to care about the actions of the imperial court and said in a deep voice.

The desert came back from a business trip, but the unlucky desert actually got a back sore, which is said to be caused by sitting for a long time, and the most terrible thing is that you need to open the knife and drain if you want to hurry up, although it is a minor operation, but it is also an operation! What bad luck! The desert now feels possessed by the mildew god, and the sores have been committed during the business trip, and the disaster is not a one-way street! ）

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