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"Xianggong, how much should be written on the official's good news?"

Liao Yingzhong put down the military newspaper in his hand and asked softly, walking around the wooden map depicting the terrain around Yangzhou. The casualties of the officers and men of the two Huai armies, Jia seems to have concealed and underreported. However, how many Huizi (Huaidong Caifu Consulate General) printed to fill the military salary were under the strict supervision of the Lin'an Imperial Court! Even a powerful minister like Jia Yidao can't do much.

The officials of the Great Song Dynasty can't fight, but the trick of how to firmly control the army is known - the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty are all mercenaries who sell their lives for money and food! As long as the civil and military generals who supervise the army on the front line cannot control the source, the official family can use an edict to seize their military power! Yue Wumu of the Gaozong Dynasty and Yu Qiaoyin of the Lizong Dynasty can be said to be folded on the word money and grain. If any general and commander has the power of the army in one hand and the wealth enough to support the army in the other, then the official family of the Great Song Dynasty will not be able to help him!

Moreover, even if Jia Rudao can control the Huaidong Salary Division, it is impossible to use the wealth of Huaidong Road to support the 178,000 Song troops of the two Huai - of course, it is on the books, and in fact, it can be pulled out of the first battle, no less than 1230,000. However, the annual consumption of money and food by these 1230,000 troops is also an astronomical amount, even in a relatively peaceful period, it is not something that can be raised by the two Huai places. What's more, now that the two Huai are being ravaged by Mongolia, there is no need to count on this year's tax revenue.

Although Huaidong Yusi has had the power to issue huizi since the beginning of the Xiaozong Dynasty. But this is not a real copper coin after all. Moreover, as early as the Duanping period, because the Jin-Song War and the Mongol-Song War brought huge military expenditures, the Southern Song Dynasty's finances fell into bankruptcy, and in order to cope with the increasingly huge military expenditures, the Southern Song Dynasty court suspended the Huizi recovery. The Huizi of the Song Dynasty was similar to a bond, which was issued in one realm and one realm, and when a new one was issued, the old Huizi would be withdrawn, but there was no interest and it would be recovered at a discount. As a result of the suspension of recycling, the value of the meeting has been depreciated. If there is no support for the imperial court to transport grain and goods from Jiangnan, how many times the Huaidong Road will be issued will be meaningless waste paper!

To illustrate, although the Huizi depreciated sharply, the Southern Song Dynasty court could use the method of "and buying" to purchase civilian property according to the currency value of the Huizi that had been depreciated to meet military and official needs - compared with the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations, the financial and commercial tax system of the Song Dynasty was indeed more efficient. Huizi can be seen as a bond in a certain way. On the surface, the system of "and buying" and "bomai" (of course, not "buying" all goods, but only a part) seems to be state intervention in the market economy, but by the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, using huizi to "buy and buy" and "bomai" was already a de facto tax in kind. Although tax in kind is not an advanced tax system, in an era when the price of commodities, especially imported goods, is difficult to estimate reasonably, the collection of tax in kind is indeed an effective means of taxation. At least enough money can be obtained to sustain a long war with the Mongols!

The Lin'an Imperial Court, which controlled the two roads of Jiangnan East and West, Zhejiang East and West, Fujian Road and Guangnan East Road, which had not yet been ravaged by the war, was also the only central government in the world that could provide a certain amount of food and money to the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and generals of the Great Song Dynasty, which is also the real reason why the Lin'an Imperial Court has been maintained to this day......

And the greatest reliance on the fact that a civil servant like Jia Rudao can drive an army of more than 100,000 people in Lianghuai is also a constant source of energy to obtain wealth from the officials in Lin'an to feed the soldiers below - but this wealth has become more and more difficult to get...... This is the reason why Jia Yidao must say that yesterday's battered battle was a great victory.

If it weren't for the great victory, how could the officials of the Great Song Dynasty, who were quite tight on hand, be willing to take out their wealth and goods to reward the soldiers?

If there is no reward, even if the king of heaven Lao Tzu descends to earth, don't expect these generals in Yangzhou City to fight hard again! But the problem is that the officials of the Great Song Dynasty are not fools, if the Lianghuai pacification envoy reports the number of lost armor and equipment to Lin'an, plus more than 500 Tartar heads, the water of this victory will be a bit big!

So hearing Liao Yingzhong's question, Jia Rudao just sighed lightly: "How else can I report?" Naturally, it was reported truthfully...... The imperial court is going to send someone to inspect it! The Northland Han and the Tartar look and dress differently, and they can't hide it! ”

Although there is not much difference in appearance between the Han and Mongols in the north, the officials sent by the military department are all experts and can be recognized at a glance.

"Xianggong, if we feed the people sent from above, it doesn't hurt to report more beheadings......" Li Tingzhi said in a low voice.

"No, no...... Ding Qingpi's eyes are not blind! Jia Rudao pressed his temple.

Ding Qingpi is the nickname of Ding Daquan, the right prime minister and privy envoy who controls the government.

And Jia Rudao is now leading the two minister-level dispatches of the Governor and the Privy Council, and is the younger brother of Emperor Lizong's favorite Jia Guifei (who has been dead for many years, but left a daughter to Lizong, and this daughter is also the only child of Lizong who has grown up, and is naturally regarded as a pearl in the palm of her hand), and has been in Lianghuai and Jinghu for 18 years...... Everyone knows that once Jia Rudao repels the Mongolian army that invaded the south, he will definitely enter the court to worship the prime minister! Such a character is not something that Ding Daquan can suppress.

The day Jia Rudao entered the dynasty was when Ding Daquan and his henchmen lost power! Therefore, Ding Daquan will definitely not let go of an opportunity to pull Jia Yidao down and pacify the envoy now.

"Let's report it truthfully!" Jia Rudao snorted, paced a few steps a little anxiously, and said in a low voice, "The official family knows that I, the ambassador, am in distress...... Now that the national disaster is at the head, the warriors below can only be coaxed! If you don't feed them, it won't be easy to clean up like Sichuan Road! ”

After the Southern Song Dynasty purged Yu Yu and his henchmen, the morale of the Song army in Sichuan fluctuated, and the Song army in Longqing, Chuzhou and other places launched rebellions, which gave the Mongolian army an opportunity, so that a large area of land in northern and western Sichuan fell, and also allowed Meng Ge's troops to reach eastern Sichuan.

"That's all there is to it." Li Tingzhi and Liao Yingzhong glanced at each other, and they both felt that there was no other way. Saying that, Liao Yingzhong was about to quit and prepare for Lin'an's recital, but heard a loud commotion outside.

"Xianggong, Xianggong! Great joy, great joy! ”

Hearing the word Daxi, the three people in the festival hall looked at each other and didn't understand what was going on? Could it be that Sichuan has won? This is not a great joy for Jia Yidao......

It was not someone else who strode in, it was Liang Chongru, Jia Yidao's staff, he was originally a cloth cloth guest and had nothing to send. However, after yesterday's battle, Jia Rudao felt that he still knew a little about military affairs, so he entrusted him with a Wurui army writing machine Yiwen. In fact, it was a military Chinese book or something, and let him count the losses and gains of the Wurui Army.

The Wu Rui Army suffered heavy losses in yesterday's battle, not only was Lu Zhaolin killed, but even the commanders of the left and right armies of the Wu Rui Army (Lu Zhaolin himself was the commander of the Chinese army) and more than half of the generals and deputy generals did not come back. Therefore, in the battle report that Jia Yidao has obtained now, there is no one that belongs to the Wu Rui Army.

"Where does the joy come from?" Jia Rudao frowned and asked, "Isn't it Lu Youwu alive again?" ”

On the battlefield, it is common for generals to be falsely reported to have died, but even if Lu Zhaolin does not die, there is no great joy.

"Yes, the Wurui army captured 41 Tartar heads in the first battle yesterday, and the Mongolian Han army had 215 heads, and 48 war horses were also plundered......"

"What?" Jia seemed to be stunned for a moment, and blinked his eyes, "Liang Yifu, you were not deceived by the martial artists below, right?" ”

"It's true! Xianggong, a certain person pinched his nose and counted his head one by one in the warehouse, and after counting, he vomited on the ground......"

"Hmph, who knows whose heads they belong to!?" Jia Rudao said coldly.

"And the horses, forty-eight tall horses, almost five feet tall at the shoulders, there must be no fake, right?"

Jia Yidao's eyes widened. And horses! The head can kill the good and take the lead, but the horse can not be changed, the Song Dynasty has never lacked horses, and the Southern Song Dynasty is even more lacking, even the horse army of the Ma Jun Division in front of the palace has no horses!