The resignation of the two senior executives will inevitably make a series of personnel adjustments, and now the official composition of the Great Song Dynasty should be said to be more complicated, including the old ministers of the previous dynasty who stayed in office, the retainers who were born in the hidden mansion, and the officials who were promoted from the officials, as well as some of the ministers in the newly acquired land, and their backgrounds are even more different. Most of the old ministers were born in Jinshi and Guozijian; Most of the officials who have passed the township or provincial examinations have passed the township examination or the provincial examination. And then some newcomers are a few years of Jinshi.

The composition of the emperor's retainers is more complicated, and most of the generals are protégés of the Son of Heaven, all of whom were trained by him, but most of them are from military backgrounds. Wenchen is full of frustrated officials and scholars, some are self-cultivated talents from Hedong Luxue, and then there are low-status businessmen and wild husbands, who have no academic qualifications at all, and they are all elites who 'learned war in war', and of course there are also those who have been converted from military ministers to capital.

Among them, the retainers who can be called the emperor's cronies accounted for less than one-tenth of the tens of thousands of bureaucrats in the Great Song Dynasty, but after Zhao Ta became emperor, he did not give them a large reward and awarded them high-ranking officials, but arranged most of them to serve in the middle and grassroots of the country. The high-level officials are all former ministers of the previous dynasty, but these people are all capable ministers who have been purged several times in the big waves; More and more officials who remain at the grassroots level are also capable officials who understand the people's feelings, have experience, and govern the people well.

This team is nondescript to anyone and cannot be compared with any government, but Zhao Ta can successfully pinch together many people who seem to be unable to share the same groove, not only the government decree is smooth, but also efficient and pragmatic. There is his means and wisdom in this, because he controls both ends of the state apparatus, and there are people at the top who advise him. Officials with vested interests at the grassroots level and their own cronies and cadres are even more difficult for the middle level to obstruct them. And they still have the emperor's blade hanging over their heads, ready to mobilize the army to suppress it.

It's been ten years now. The grassroots officials trained and promoted by Zhao Ta have been tempered, already have experience in managing local areas, and have begun to gradually replace those old ministers. The Jinshi who became the protégés of the Son of Heaven through the imperial examination just filled the vacant positions at the grassroots level and managed the localities according to the procedures and methods that had been established by them, forming another cycle and completing the exchange of the old and the new in the officialdom......

After discussion, Zhao Ta promoted Xu Jingheng to Zuo Cheng of Shangshu Province and straightened him up; Chen Gongbo, the secretary of the ministry, succeeded him as the right minister of Shangshu Province and stepped into the highest level of the country; Yang Shi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was reappointed as a scholar of the Senior Administration Palace. Responsible for sorting out the history of the country, Hu Anguo, the priest of the country, took over the post of secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Sima Pu was the same knowledge, and Zhang Suo, the pacification envoy of Hebei, was the waiter; Chen Yu, the secretary of the household department, is the secretary of the ministry, and Xu Hong, the former prefect of Datong, is the waiter; transferred Nie Chang, the prefect of Zhongshan, as the head of the household, and Qiao Kun, the prefect of Taiyuan, as the waiter; Zhang Shuye, the secretary of the military department, was transferred to the secretary of the criminal department; Shen Songyue, the prefect of Xiazhou, was transferred to the Ministry of Industry; Chen Guoting is the secretary of the military department, and Zhao Yisheng is a general, still a squire; Chen Dong is the middle of the imperial history; Zhou Xingji is the priest of the country; Liu Zi'an, the prefect of the daimyo Prefecture, was transferred to the prefect of Kaifeng; Zhang Xiaochun, the secretary of the Criminal Department, served as the prefect of Yanjing.

The Privy Council has also changed significantly, and the envoy was succeeded by Zhao Ren. Zhao Yong is a fellow of the Privy Council; Duyu Marquis Zhao Li was transferred to Hedong Town as the envoy and was succeeded by Gao Chong; Zhao Zhi was transferred to Hedong Road, Yanjing Road, and Dadingfu Road as the transfer envoy, and the baggage division was taken over by Lou Gan, the commander of the first brigade of baggage; Zhao Yan showed the emperor the gate for two years and then transferred to the superintendent of the Great Song Martial Arts Academy; Liu Biao took over the infantry division, and Dou Jun took over the Ma military division; Jiang Fei, the commander of the Military Intelligence Department, was transferred to Xijing to stay behind. Succeeded by Shang Hu; Zhao Zhong signed a letter to the Privy Council and concurrently served as the commander of the Guards, and Lei Zhenshan was promoted to the deputy commander of the Guards and concurrently served as the commander of the expanded Special Operations Brigade.

After the central readjustment was completed, another round of local reshuffles began. However, everyone saw that the emperor's ministers began to enter the central high-level and enter the center of the country. The army remained the Emperor's forbidden place. Other potential force needles can't be inserted, and water can't be splashed. But Zhao Zhi, who has always been the emperor's confidant, transferred his capital to serve as a three-way transfer envoy for civil officials, which made everyone feel troubled. Over there is a logistics base for the war against Jin, and if you can't get it right at this time, you have to fight again!

And what happened next seemed to confirm their speculation, the emperor ordered the transfer of two commanders of the first brigade of the wolf general, and the two commanders of the first brigade of the wolf wing army to expand into three brigades, and at the same time formed three new artillery brigades, all of which were under the direct jurisdiction of the Privy Council. Those who are familiar with military affairs know that the first brigade of the two armies is good at fighting in mountains and jungles, and the hinterland of the Jin country is mountainous and forested, and the old nest of the Jurchens is even more dense and dense, and the formation of this army is for the next step of combat operations......

In the past, when the expansion of the army was mentioned, someone would persuade the emperor to be cautious and not to go back to the old road of redundant troops in the past, Zhao Ta also understood that now the country's money is tight, so he can save some money, and at this time he has to take a lot of trouble to explain. In fact, it is not that everyone was frightened by the emperor, but that their 'consciousness' was improved and they thought it was necessary.

After the lessons learned from the near-destruction of the country a few years ago, people of insight in the DPRK and China have come to realize that military spending potential is an important component of a country's war potential, and judging from history and reality, most of the victory or defeat of a war is related to a country's military spending support capability. The most obvious thing is that the amount of military spending has a great impact on the scale of troop mobilization. The size of military spending potential depends on a country's overall economic strength, strategic reserves, peacetime financial situation and many other factors, and also has a certain relationship with the country's mobilized resources, foreign trade, and transportation.

The main factors affecting the scale of military spending are economic strength, land area, and security situation; when there is little money, it is natural to reduce the size of the armed forces and reduce military operations, and when there is more money, we can raise the level of combat readiness and update weapons and equipment. In the same way, the country needs more troops to protect the country, and what is the use of raising so many soldiers in a country with only a big butt. The security situation is not good, and you are ready for the outbreak of war at any time, even if you have no money, you have to raise troops, otherwise you will only lose the country, and there is no need for peace in the world!

Military spending has always been the bulk of the Song Dynasty's financial expenditure, the new forbidden army is equipped with firearms and cavalry, in this era against the cold weapons of the enemy can be called relying on the strong to bully the weak asymmetric warfare, of course, it is also at the cost of spending more money, expanding the army means spending more money to purchase equipment, raising more soldiers, increasing financial difficulties.

After Zhao Ta ascended the throne, the military expenditure decreased after the reorganization and downsizing, just taking a universally equipped Lianzhu gun as an example, the cost of materials and production is several times that of a bow, not counting the ammunition consumed. It is precisely because of the huge demand that Zhao Ta has not launched a major campaign since the last Northern Expedition, and even a small-scale campaign is to dispatch an army and use deterrence.

With the victory of several foreign wars, the land area of the Great Song Dynasty has nearly doubled, which also means that more troops are needed to defend it, which has also become a contradiction. Although the victory on the battlefield improved the security situation of the Great Song Dynasty, the Jin State still existed, the remnants of Liao always hoped to return to their homeland, the nomads in the north also eyed the rich Great Song Dynasty, and the Tibetan tribes also had ambitions for the Central Plains...... As a result, the security situation remains unpleasant.

This seems to have become a dead knot, and Zhao Ta understands that the only way to solve this dead knot is to develop the economy, and only when the country is rich and the people are strong, can we have more money to develop military strength, and only by strong military strength can we provide a guarantee for economic development.

Therefore, Zhao Ta in a series of victories after the decisive stop the pace of conquest and military expansion, vigorously develop the economy, now after several years of the Great Song Dynasty after opening the sea to strengthen foreign trade, the sustained development of the economy to ensure the increase of taxes, now all the Changping and Guanghui two warehouses are full, the treasury will naturally not be empty, in the rejuvenation of the country in three years of tax more than 100 million guan mark to achieve a balance of payments, since then there has been accumulation every year, this year is an explosive increase, only the summer tax has reached 200 million. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Households, the total amount of gold and silver in the treasury and the physical goods stored in each warehouse was 200 million taels, which was not counting the emperor's own small treasury, and everyone agreed that it would not be less than the treasury.

Nowadays, the Great Song Dynasty has become the economic center of Asia, and the economies of neighboring countries and even as far as Central Asia and Southeast China are increasingly dependent on the Great Song market, and it can be said that the Great Song Dynasty has choked their economic lifeline. In addition to using military means, the use of economic means in the Great Song Dynasty could also restrain and weaken the power of the hostile countries, promote regional economic and cultural integration, and make it possible to achieve a military defeat without a fight through diplomatic means.

With money, Zhao Ta did not rush to increase military spending, but saved a part of it to prepare for disaster years and wars while ensuring the normal operation of the country, and most of it was invested in infrastructure construction. He built water conservancy facilities on a large scale, developed agricultural production, and controlled floods; excavated canals so that the southeast grain ships could go directly to the Yanjing area; expansion of ports and increase cargo throughput; Widening and renovating the original Chi Road, building a road from Chang'an in the west, Linhuang Mansion in the north, Chengdu in the south, and Dengzhou in the east, and the branch roads that are as dense as a spider's web can connect the state capitals.

This money was not thrown in vain, and it not only realized the rapid transmission of military information and enhanced the mobility of the army among the towns and prefectures, but also helped to raise the level of combat readiness, increase the potential of war support, achieve a balance between economic and military development, and lay a solid foundation for strengthening the army.

Merchants and civilians alike benefited from the infrastructure, facilitating the movement of caravans and promoting commerce, as well as handicrafts and agriculture. Silk, tea, porcelain, paper, and books were the main commodities exported by the Great Song Dynasty, and these were based on agriculture and processed and produced, which not only benefited the upstream and downstream from it and increased the enthusiasm for labor, but also gave the landless peasants an additional way to live, alleviated and reduced the domestic contradictions caused by land annexation, and kept the wealth in the people so that the economy would not collapse due to the outbreak of war...... (To be continued......)