"Xuan Liu Zhi, Liang Tao, and An Tao enter the hall."

After a while, the three of them were brought in.

Everyone looked at the three of them curiously, and the three of An Tao were fine except for their faces being slightly dark under the sea breeze.

This is not the early dynasty, but in the Yanhe Palace, Wang Ju spoke.

"The ancestors punished the defeat of the previous dynasty, so they controlled the power of the army."

Not only the Anshi Rebellion, but also the replacement of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were mostly initiated by military generals, but Wang Ju doesn't need to explain this, they are all scholars and have read a lot of books.

"Just like currency, first the metal currency replaced the shell and other backward currency, and now the silk currency gradually replaced the copper coin, which is the general trend. But how did the ancestors control the military power, that is, the military generals were not allowed to control the country's financial power and political power, so as not to make our dynasty like some previous dynasties. But the three, please look at the border states back then, how many Wenchen were there, and how many Wenchen led the troops to fight? It is precisely because of this that although Taizong attacked Liao twice, he failed successively. But in the ensuing self-defense war, except for the mistake of the Junziguan, the rest of the point was lost to the Liao State. The Battle of Mancheng, the Battle of Suicheng, the Battle of the Tang River, the Defeat of the Xu River, the Battle of Yanmen, ......"

Some people blame the defeat of the Song Dynasty on Song Taizong.

Actually, this is really wrong.

Even if Song Taizong's two Northern Expeditions failed, Song Taizong could not really be blamed for everything, it was not that Song Taizong was incompetent, but that the Liao State at that time was too strong and the strongest!

Even at the beginning of the Liao Kingdom, it was inferior to the troika of the Liao State at that time!

In other words, Song Taizong's system is not good, and look at the situation of various countries later, there are several military generals who manage the state power. Yes. But these countries are lagging behind!

That is, the system invented by these two ancestors of the Song Dynasty. Eight or nine hundred years ahead of the world!

But where is the problem, that is, what Wang Ju wants to say below: "But later, it was also a self-defense war, Haoshuichuan, Dingchuan, and Sanchuankou, fighting one and losing another, why?" Wenchen ruled the army also. Or it is Liu Ping who leads the troops in Sanchuankou, and Ge Huaimin is the one who leads the troops in Dingchuan, but who is Liu Ping who is moving. Fan Yong! Has Ge Huaimin been tested on the battlefield? No, it was recommended by Lu Yi Jian Gong and other civil ministers, and he was the main general. Well...... Just like Gao Zunyuya. ”

"What if Di Qing replaces Han Gong in charge of Jingyuan Road, Chong Shiheng replaces Fan Gong in charge of Jingyuan Road, and Wang Xin replaces others in charge of Juyan Road? Some people say that Zhang Kang is a military minister, even if he is a military minister, and look at the performance of Fulin Road in the Qingli War! ”

"The state needs scholars, and indeed, it is the governance of scholars. My dynasty has outdone all dynasties, even if some of the previous dynasties have been governed at some point. But it won't go on and on like my dynasty. However, there is a specialization in art, and scholars are definitely not omnipotent. ”

"Three, you have gone to the other side, and you have seen many places and many situations......

After the three people were taken to the other side by boat, An Tao suffered the least, and the remaining two people suffered a lot, so they were pulled by the boat to Lizhou and let the three of them get together.

But just like that, I deliberately took them to several tribes to see how those natives ate people.

Why can you see it, because with the increase in population, the number of indigenous tribes has decreased, and Wang Ju's "conscience discovery" has decreased, and there are fewer killings. As a result, some indigenous allegiances were also tacitly acquiesced.

Including those Maori people, you can eat people, but whether you eat dead people or live people, don't eat the Chinese who have migrated.

These tribes continue to eat people, but not prisoners of war from other tribes, or dead people.

So when they were cannibalizing, the cadres of Lizhou brought the three bigwigs to these indigenous tribes to "visit", and when they saw it, they were disgusted, and the three of them vomited after they came back.

But that's not what Wang Ju was referring to.

"Over the years, various donations have funded more than 100 million yuan of wealth in the other side, but the three of you have also seen that the other side is by no means a golden land everywhere, on the contrary, in addition to the vast land and sparsely populated land, it is almost useless, and even many of the climate and environment are extremely harsh, which cannot be imagined. This was pioneered step by step by the maritime merchants with the people. But what I want to ask is, are there any scholars and scholars on the other side who are governing the people? Not a single one. Are there as many destitute people on the other side as I do? No, on the contrary, as long as they settle down, most of the people on the other side will live and work in peace and contentment. ”

"Now that my courtiers and scholars have almost all the rights in their hands, the political power, financial power, military power, and even the work done by these technical and craftsman departments such as ordnance supervisors, horse herding divisions, and kapok supervisors are also under the management of civil ministers, and there is no right to grab them anymore, so I directly said to Your Majesty, this world is ruled by Your Majesty and scholars, and Your Majesty, you must also hand over a part of your rights. But it doesn't matter, as long as everyone can govern the country more prosperously and strongly, I believe that Your Majesty is willing to give up some of your rights. But the problem is that when there is no longer any right to fight, the party will fight for power from the same department, and the party will fight against differences. ”

If there is no proof from the other side, Wang Ju still can't say clearly.

But with the other side as proof, what Wen Yanbo said is simply a joke!

"I have discussed scholars on the other side, and I have said that the internal governance of scholars is very important, but scholars are certainly not as important as our dynasty, just like at the beginning of the founding of our dynasty, although we began to use scholars to govern the country, how many of them were Jinshi and the first scholars? The second is the various races, our people are very good, hard-working, and intelligent, but the biggest defect is that the country is too big, and it is not easy to unite and unite if it is too big. But as scholars, you have taken the lead in fighting against the same party and causing the country to be divided, why? ”

"I have restricted the rights of foreign relatives, eunuchs, and military generals in the punishment of the previous dynasty, so I don't know if someone will punish the defeat of our dynasty thousands of years later, and the soldiers and doctors will be set outside the three religions and nine streams...... Nine beggars and ten Confucians, or criticizing Confucianism and criticizing Confucius, three, will you feel ashamed under the nine springs at that time? ”

This is the origin of the nine beggars and ten Confucians in the Yuan Dynasty.

The rulers of the Yuan dynasty were likewise not fools...... However, like the Song Dynasty, it was overkill and made many mistakes, especially dividing China into four races, and the Han people were listed as the lowest and lowliest fourth-class people...... Not only that, but the small Menru country with millions of people who dared to love the later continued to think that they were the most noble race and China was the lowest race.

So it's only a few decades. was expelled by Zhu Chongba.

"Or you can say. We are not the same party. It's you who cut down, but I'm really treacherous, these two years, for the sake of the banking department, for the country, I can't be at peace day and night. Now that I have gradually settled, I will go to Shaanxi in a few months. Or you say, that's when it's most dangerous. Having prestige at home and having a heavy army in hand will be detrimental to the country. Yes, I will have a heavy army, but after I finish the reorganization of the Shaanxi Road army, I will use the Western Xia again. When Western Xia was pacified and basically stabilized, I even had to flee overseas in order to avoid suspicion. It's all on this, but it's still treacherous. Three, I ask you. So what kind of minister is the pillar of the country, the loyal minister of the country! ”

In fact, this passage is not only for these three people, but also for other people, and for Zhao Ji.

Otherwise, after going to Shaanxi, there may be villains in the rear.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Yellow River and the Yangtze River are so vast that they do not choose any trickle, no matter which river these tributaries come from, they are all well integrated, so they have been flowing endlessly for thousands of years. Mount Tai is so high that it regards them as its own cornerstone regardless of soil and rock, so it has been standing for thousands of years. Besides, it is our dynasty, the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, and Taishan are only a small area of our dynasty, if the ministers are forcibly divided into the new party and the old party, and even continue to subdivide the Shuo party, the Luo party, the Guan party, the Shu party and the southern party in the future, and then divide the people into the south and the north, then no matter how it is governed. The country will quickly fall apart. ”

Wang Ju's words can be described as well-intentioned.

But the three of them didn't appreciate it.

Not to mention that they were frightened on the sea, and when they arrived on the other side, they were not abused in their diet, but they did not gain any respect.

Is it okay if they are high up and disrespectful?

Therefore, although Wang Ju summoned them back, the three of them still held a grudge, especially after hearing about one thing, they immediately found Li Qingchen.

"Gong Li, my dynasty failed miserably again in Wuyan Gorge?"

Li Qingchen nodded solemnly.

Six departments have placed squires, but not every one of them has a book, and only two or three books have a book, but in the end it is a book, not a master. There are only seven and a half people in the real Zaizhi, one of the two kings of Zhongshu, Cai Zhang under the door, and two Zhongcheng of Shangshu, two of Fan Pu, and half of them, Han Jin, although Han Jin is the same house as the Privy Council, but his power has declined indefinitely...... Barely half a prime minister.

However, this has nothing to do with the six squires and the six books, they are just the executive body.

Therefore, that day, Wang Ju told the whole plan, and the officials of the six departments of Shangshu were not among them.

So Li Qingchen didn't know the truth either.

However, there was no need to cover up the defeat of Wuyanxia, but it spread out, and it also reached the ears of the three people who stayed in the post house and listened to the arrangements of the imperial court.

"Duke Li, what is Zhizhou, can we govern the affairs of a state, but the three of us are like a puppet when we arrive on the other side, are we not Zhizhou, but prisoners of control?" Liang Tao said angrily.

You are equivalent to a criminal minister, but Li Qingchen has a good relationship with these three people, how can he say it, so he said: "Duke Liang, Duke An, Duke Liu, since you are back, there is no need to confuse Wang Zi'an, and he was also for the bank department at that time." ”

"It's just a move to make money." Liu Zhi said disdainfully.

"Liu Gong, to be honest, the banking department is really good, but I am very worried about Wuyanxia." Li Qingchen said.

He is also the old party.

However, Wang Ju has repeatedly benefited the people, so he can no longer attack him to collect money.

The other is the purple banknote that many old parties hate, which is not called purple money, but forcibly makes relatives and powerful people pay taxes.

But with nearly 200 million loans, half of it flowed into the hands of relatives and magnates, as their capital to expand their industries, and nearly half flowed into the hands of small and medium-sized businessmen, who set up many workshops, so this year's purple banknotes still reached a sixty percent ratio, but this can not be taken too seriously, mainly many small and medium-sized businessmen hang their industrial income in the name of relatives and magnates to avoid taxes. The original shrinkage of the proportion of Zhu banknotes has stopped, but in fact it is not stopped, because there are still many small and medium-sized businessmen who continue to hang their industries under the name of the powerful, and in fact, as long as they no longer shrink, it shows their expansion. At the same time, there is another place that can be seen, that is, when the implementation of the Qi merchant tax began, the amount of Zhu banknotes shrank sharply, but from this spring, the number of Zhu banknotes has surged again.

This is one aspect.

There is one more aspect.

Because of various policies to benefit the people, the wealth in the hands of the people has increased a little. And last year, the equivalent of 15 million pieces of cloth was used for infrastructure construction, not only for the construction of Wanchun Wei, but also for the roads and bridges in various states. There is money in hand. The road is convenient. The deal has undoubtedly expanded.

This leads to another increase in income.

Wang Ju first launched the Fangchang River crossing system. Wang Anshi further improved it, and even took out the Confucian Temple as a grass market for the people to trade, and then handed this over to private contractors, and the state profited from it, which made Zhang Fangping severely criticized.

The shortest time is three years, the longest is five years, and even some of the longer business hours can be ten or twenty years. For example, Wang Juqiu will launch another contracting business...... That's twenty years!

And it is not a one-time contract, so at the beginning of spring every year, each state has to re-bid and win the bid, and re-auction the expired Fangchang River Ferry.

However, because the transaction was stimulated by various policies of the imperial court, the winning bid after the beginning of spring this year, only in the Fang market, the amount surged by more than 373,600 guan, which is a new guan, if it is an old guan, it is almost close to 500,000 guan!

If it weren't for Wang Ju. Maybe you won't be able to notice it.

But with Wang Ju, there is an explanation.

And Wang Ju said. Now is just the beginning, and under the stimulus of these policies, the income of Fangchang Hedu will increase.

For example, the increase of various workshops will undoubtedly levy more commercial taxes, and the increase of various pits and mines will undoubtedly get more extraction, and the increase in trading volume will not only get more commercial taxes, but also the trading volume of the grass market in each fang market is also expanding, so the imperial court will also get more contracting fees.

Therefore, the imperial court continued to introduce various policies of light and moderation, and gave generous benefits to the people, while the state revenue did not decrease.

This is the so-called non-taxation and self-use of the state.

And at present, for the sake of Western Xia, it is still in the process of accumulating wealth, once the Western Xia affair is over, the imperial court will further pay and pay taxes, and the Great Song Dynasty will come. Then Wang Ju sighed intentionally: "If it weren't for the first two fiascos, the imperial court could at least draw out 100 million yuan of money, then in these two years, nearly 100 million yuan of money and silk could be transferred for the state capitals to be used for extensive road construction and water conservancy, and all kinds of harsh taxes such as relocation could be removed, maybe next year can achieve real governance." ”

What is Daji?

Everyone understands that just like the exaggerated method of Wenjing Zhizhi recorded in the history books, there is too much grain in each warehouse to put it down, and the rope that strings money is rotten. Because of their abundance, the people do not close their houses at night, and they do not leave their roads behind.

Although Li Qingchen is the old party, he also longs for this kind of great governance.

If Wang Jucai came back and said this, everyone wouldn't believe it. However, this year, Wang Ju said this, and ninety percent of the ministers had to be convinced.

Although it can't be said that the big rule is coming, at least the small rule is coming.

In this case, together with the group of elders in Luoyang who were reluctant to leave Luoyang and continued to "repair books", they did not dare to say a word, if these three good friends continued to "commit crimes against the wind", the end would be even worse.

Therefore, Li Qingchen warned again: "The bank division really can't attack anymore, and in this regard, Wang Zi'an has done a good job." If you don't believe it, you can observe it for a while. ”

This is not the other time, and this year is not the year before last.

"As for the fiasco in Wuyanxia, Your Majesty didn't say anything, although some ministers wrote and expressed concern, don't talk about it."

Li Qingchen also wrote a book, saying that it is very good now, it is indeed very good, and he can't wipe his conscience to speak, and he really fights for the loan shark in a black heart...... Or the commercial tax of the powerful is levied, and the imperial court is also making concessions, so there is no need to add to it.

As long as this year is over, there will be a year of rest and recuperation next year, and the national "small governance" will come soon, and then the summer will be cut down.

Even Li Qingchen saw that Xie Jingwen and Fu Shaoting were recruited back one after another, and Fu Shaoting also made an exception to reuse him as the Sanmen shipping envoy.

Later, An Tao and the three of them just quit overseas, and now they have been recalled again, Li Qingchen thought that Wang Ju had drawn a successful end to his internal governance during the three-year prime minister's period.

At this critical time, why did the imperial court inexplicably build a city in the enemy's territory?

Li Qingchen couldn't figure it out.

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"Brother Kuroko, are you afraid?" Guo Xiaosi looked at the black-pressed enemy and asked in a trembling voice.

"Little four, you can't be afraid, the more you are afraid, the more you die." The man named Brother Kuroko said.

As soon as he finished speaking, a row of stone bullets fell.

Pingxia City was very large, and four urn cities were built in advance, so the subsequent city walls and moats were not repaired.

The walls were not repaired, and they were necessarily uneven, although the soldiers hid behind the walls with the people. If the stone projectile falls at the point where the wall is uneven. And it is the concave side in the middle. Although the city wall unleashed some of the force of the stone projectiles, it then rolled down, wounding more than a dozen soldiers.

Just not far from Guo Xiaosi, a man was hit by a falling stone bullet, lying on the ground in pain, and then carried by others to the camp in the center of the city for treatment.

Therefore, Guo Xiaosi's face became even paler.

"Little Si, I see that you usually have a very sharp mouth, how can you be so afraid?" The man named Brother Kuroko sneered.

But that's not entirely ridiculous. It's a joke.

Guo Xiaosi said: "Why don't we have a tiger cannon? ”

"I don't know."

The Tiger Cannon was invented by Wang Ju, but what Guo Xiaosi and the person named Brother Heizi didn't know was that the Tiger Cannon had stopped production.

Don't ask how high the cost of artillery was, in the Ming Dynasty it could be called a cost, but in the Song Dynasty, was it still called a cost?

In fact, trebuchets and thunderbolts have become a thing of the past, and gunpowder packs are not history, but they are only used in the construction of roads and mines, so the imperial court stopped production. As for the original Tiger Cannon, it was gradually transferred to Hedong and Hebei. Used for defense. But on this side of Shaanxi Road, it was gradually replaced by new artillery.

However, this is the insider. It's not something that Guo Xiaosi and Brother Heizi can know.

But it's not actually a tiger cannon, yes, Western Xia did capture a lot of tiger cannons, but the number is limited. Regardless of Li Xian's army, although the actual army was isolated from Hexi during the summer war and suffered some losses, it cannot be called a heavy loss. It wasn't the collapse of the army, although the three armies collapsed, and some sharp weapons were taken away. The main source of armor still came from outside Lingzhou City, and the Western Xia broke the Yellow River embankment, resulting in heavy losses for the soldiers under Gao Zunyu and Liu Changzuo, and at the same time lost a large number of armor.

But in Xiweng City, Liu Fa looked at Xia Jun and asked puzzledly: "General Guo, there are so many rattan shields in Western Xia?" ”

Whether it is a tiger cannon or a divine arm bow, Liu Fa can understand that Gao Zunyu is the main force, and the more soldiers of the three armies are lost, the more armor Western Xia will get. However, the rattan shield is different, it is lighter than water, and although the Western Xia flooded the Song army, many of the rattan shields floated away.

It's not that Xixia doesn't produce rattan, but if you want to make the raw materials for rattan shields, it's still ancient rattan from the south.

If you want to win the battle of Yongle City again, it is actually very simple.

Break through Pingxia City, but if you want to break through Pingxia City, the first hurdle is this moat. Because it is close to the Hulu River, the water vapor is humid, and it is summer, and the water and rain are abundant, although the water of the moat is brought from the Hulu River, but the water of the Hulu River is filled, and the ditch will not dry up.

However, fortunately, the width of the moat was limited, so the first difficulty in Western Xia was to fill the moat with many moats, so that the second step could be achieved, and the city wall could be destroyed. Construction is hard to destroy, easy to destroy. So the Western Xia used the captured Song Dynasty tiger cannon to shock the soldiers and civilians in the city.

Then the second step, which is to fill in part of the trench, is the big shield in front, that is, the large wooden shield of Western Xia, and behind are the archers, many of whom use composite bows obtained from the Song Dynasty.

It doesn't matter, Guan Jian still has the back, and the intention of this is to cover the soldiers who are filling the trenches with mud bags.

Don't ask about the difficulty of filling the trench, the water flow here is gentle, and the problem is not big, just block the upstream water source, and the ditch is not wide, because the water flow is clear, although you can faintly see some thistles and so on, disgusting things, but as long as the trench is filled with dozens of ways, then you can enter the second step and destroy the city wall.

Pingxia City is far larger than Yongle City, but there are not many people used, and now the city wall has not been repaired, and hundreds of thousands of Xia troops have come, and it is not very difficult to destroy it.

So in this Pingchuan land, what did the nearly 20,000 soldiers and civilians of the Song Dynasty defend with? Fence?

This is all in the foreground, mainly the vine shield.

Let's not talk about the defects of the wooden shield, let's just say that these Western Xia soldiers who filled the trenches, the wooden shields were at most covered in front of the moats, and then what should I do?

However, there are many rattan shields in Western Xia now, holding a rattan shield in one hand to protect themselves, carrying a mud bag, carrying it to the moat, and throwing it into the moat. If there is a small amount of rattan shields, Liu Fa is not surprised, Guan Jian is now a soldier who fills the trenches in Western Xia, almost one person has a rattan shield, then where did so many rattan looks come from?

This shows that some unscrupulous merchants sold the ancient vines produced in the south of the Song Dynasty to the Western Xia, and even sold the craftsmanship to the Western Xia people.

In fact, this is really a good thing, Western Xia is weak and weak economically, so Wang Ju secretly launched an economic war...... It's just that Guo Cheng doesn't know, he only has a wry smile, how to answer.

Under the cover of the tiger cannon, with the help of the vine shield, soon the Western Xia filled dozens of wide dikes on the outer trenches of the four city walls, and the embankment was getting closer and closer to this side, Guo Cheng gave the order.

The three armies began to release arrows.

In fact, the threat of the Xia army was limited at this time, but Guo Xiaosi was timid, coupled with his thin body and limited strength, every arrow missed, not missed, but fell in the trench, and there was no threat to the Western Xia soldiers at all.

But the black brother next to him released three arrows, and finally killed a Western Xia soldier.

Brother Kuroko cheered.

Liu Dutou, who supervised the battle exploits and command, said: "Shrink your head." ”

After killing the Tangut people, Liu Dutou will record his battle exploits for him, but don't pop his head out too much. Make no mistake, the Tanguts were also firing arrows. Wuyanxia has already folded two thousand soldiers, and there is no need to sacrifice more people, even if it is a people.

Actually, that's part of the plan.

If the walls are repaired, it is not a big problem to make the moat wider.

Even if it is a little wider and farther away, even if it is like the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, the sharpest bow and arrow will threaten the other side, but not now, the city wall will not have time to be repaired and completed, so whether it is a soldier or a citizen, only standing under the city wall to fight back, the range must be different.

Also, after the Pingxia City was repaired, the war had already ended, it was an important transit point for future summer materials, not an important fortress on the front line, think about it, after the battle of Pingxia City, defeated, the Song Dynasty could only retreat to Xining Village, win, is it just Pingxia City?

Therefore, the ditch is relatively close to the city wall, and it is not very wide, and it can be expanded a little after the end of this battle, but not now.

So when the Tanguts filled the trench halfway, Guo Cheng ordered the arrows to be released, and although the Tangut soldiers were covered by rattan shields, many soldiers were shot.

Shoot one person, that's ten pieces of money, how can Brother Heizi not be excited?

Liu Dutou left, and Guo Xiaosi said enviously: "It's too far, I can't shoot, Brother Heizi, ten times the money." ”

"You kid usually has an invincible mouth, why doesn't it work when it's critical? Remember, if you really don't have enough strength, don't shoot arrows so desperately, when you have enough strength, put one or two arrows, maybe you will get the ten yuan in your hand. "Brother Heizi and Guo Xiaosi are from a village, so they teach patiently.

The battle continued, and it was dusk again.

One day and one night came down, and the rest was only four days and four nights.

But the dikes of Western Xia were about to spread to the shore......

PS: Today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, Lao Wu is an old-fashioned person with the Han Emperor, and he is also an angry young man, who attaches great importance to the Spring Festival...... Hehe. But here I wish you all a happy new year and all the best.

As for what is in charge of the world, it would be strange if the world pounced on the results of my book, and still had the heart to write it down as patiently as I did. Ladies and gentlemen, don't be higher, with my grades, compare my history with the same grades. Otherwise the requirements are too strict. Grades really affect the mood, and the mood really affects the quality of the book. Ahhh (To be continued.) )