Zong Han has further developed his strength in recent years under the support of Aguta and the connivance of Wu Qimai, and his strength can even compete with the imperial court, but this southern invasion was hit hard by Zhao Ta and collapsed, but his rapid development still aroused Wu Qimai's vigilance, and he was going to use this to deprive him of some power in the Marshal's Mansion.

Similarly, Zong Gan and the others are not blind, Zong Han's excessive power has also affected the development of their lineage, and now Han is not dead, and he has to rely on Zong Han's help in order to compete for the storage position, but he is also wary. But after all, they and Wu Qimai are one family, and when the dust settles, the people of the two factions turn their spearheads to Zong Han.

The biggest beneficiary of this 'forced palace' incident seems to be Zong Han, who not only served as the right minister, but also took the position of commander of the army inside and outside from Zong Ben, and it seems that the military and political power have fallen into his hands, and his position in the DPRK is very important, and his rise again is just around the corner. But there are losses and gains, he has lost the territory that he has been operating for many years, he has lost the control of the army, and he has also lost the capital to turn around, but he is intoxicated with the 'victory' but he has not yet realized it.

Another beneficiary was Qin Hui, who planned behind the scenes throughout the whole incident, won Zong Han's trust, became his confidant, and became one of the deacons in the palace. Qin Hui was naturally flattered when he got such a 'knowing', and even more grovelled to the Jurchens...

Now that the oblique is also dead, and it has been found that he has colluded with the Southern Dynasty, and the dust has settled on Lichu, then no one will mention the matter of peace again, after all, it seems that it is not beneficial for everyone to change back to Zongxuan. But Wu Qimai didn't want his son to 'stay in the Southern Dynasty for a long time', and everyone couldn't help but give face to the emperor, and all kinds of signs showed. It was impossible to destroy the Southern Dynasty by purely military means.

Therefore, the policy towards the Song Dynasty needs to be adjusted. Abandon the unrealistic plan to eliminate the Song regime in the short term, and turn the corner. Devoted himself to managing the occupied Yanjing region and a large area of the Liao State, recuperating and recuperating in order to facilitate the resumption of the war, and formulated a new strategy against the Song Dynasty in accordance with this principle.

Previously, Zhang Bangchang was supported as a puppet emperor and ruled the Central Plains as a buffer zone between Song and Jin, although it failed, but it was only a decision-making mistake at that time, and if you want to find one from the Southern Dynasty clan, there will be no situation where Zhao Er is a strong man as the emperor. After review, it was concluded that it was feasible to select a suitable person from among the captured clans to serve Daejin as emperor, but only if they relied on military victories to regain the Central Plains. I can only slow down the picture.

The other is to concentrate troops to capture the northwest, in order to first capture the Qinchuan Five Routes, and then enter Sichuan from Shaanxi and go down the river, thus forming a roundabout encirclement of the Central Plains, and then attacking on both sides to seize the entire territory of the Southern Dynasties. But this is not something that can be done in a while. Everyone knows that Zhao Er has been operating there for many years in the northwest region of Ludao, which is his old base, not only familiar to him, but also loyal to him. It will definitely deploy heavy troops to guard, and even the head that Taizu touched back then broke the blood flow, it must be a difficult bone to gnaw.

The other is the old trick, using 'to fight with peace.' The strategy of inducing rebellion against the party with arrogance. The so-called war with peace was actually a kind of smokescreen, which was intended to tempt the Song Dynasty to relax its vigilance and lose its fighting spirit. The most Lu took the opportunity to destroy it in one fell swoop, so the peace negotiation was only an auxiliary means of the Jin Dynasty as an invasion of the Song Dynasty and to satisfy the emperor; The so-called inducement of rebellion against the party is to set up puppets and give high-ranking officials good fortunes. In order to lure the capitulation faction within the Song Dynasty, it was divided and disintegrated. And then undermine the anti-gold struggle.

The Jin people tried to achieve their goal of occupying and ruling all the Song territory on the battlefield through the above three measures, but each of them was difficult to implement!

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The first year of rejuvenation has passed in a blink of an eye, but it is extremely difficult and extremely important for Zhao Ta. This year, he can be said to have even used the strength to eat milk, right, evil, soft, hard, anyway, in order to achieve the goal of consolidating the political power, he did everything to achieve the goal of consolidating the regime, although some methods are not very glorious, but he also understands that there is nothing in the world that is dirtier than politics, even if it is to fight poison with poison.

Under Zhao Tan's punches and kicks, the army of the Great Song Dynasty was reorganized, the local governments were basically replaced, the government decrees were smooth, and the people's hearts gradually stabilized and were content with production. The four major coastal treaty ports have all set up municipal shipping divisions, the ports have begun to expand, and some fleets have begun to eagerly start sea trials. The preparatory work of the Jiaozi Bureau has been completed, and the business of exchanging old banknotes has begun in the counter shop in the fourth hall. In addition, there are also the rest and recuperation of the border cities, the displaced people, the leftovers who have been laid off, the placement of weak soldiers, etc., each of which is difficult and requires a lot of financial support.

If someone asks Zhao Tashi now, who is the poorest person in the world? Without hesitation, he will raise his hand and answer: It's me, it's me, it's me! Every day, as soon as he opened his eyes, he had to face the watch asking for money everywhere, and several bigwigs in the court really regarded him as an ATM, thinking that the official family was really a big money, and he could take out gold ingots in his pocket at any time.

Zhao Ta also knew that if he didn't insist on it now and didn't take out this money, then his previous efforts would be halfway, and he could only bite his back molars and take out the most copper plate in his pocket. Although Zhao Ta was so worried about money that he wanted to be his own palace, he resisted the repeated persuasion of the deacons and did not increase the tax by a penny, and also cut some of the harsh taxes of his father, his brother and the older generations.

However, in such a tight financial situation, Zhao Ta did not owe a month's military salary and reduce military expenditures, but always maintained strong military pressure on the Jin State. Because he knew that he was in difficulty, the Dajin Kingdom was not rich, and the years of conquest and the increasingly luxurious life of the nobles consumed a lot of financial resources of the Jin Kingdom, and once the foreign plunder failed, there would be a serious economic crisis.

There are only three ways for the Jin State to solve the current crisis: one is to continue to wage war and continue to tide over the immediate difficulties by plundering the wealth of others; the second is to increase the taxes of the people of the country and squeeze the conquered people in the occupied territories in order to maintain the fragile finances; The third is to strike the army and cease fighting, recuperate and recuperate, and gradually restore the people's livelihood in order to obtain a steady stream of tax revenue.

What Zhao had to do was to drag the Jin Kingdom into an arms race, depriving them of a chance to recuperate, so as to achieve the goal of dragging down their economy. To this end, he deployed tens of thousands of troops on the border between the two countries. Putting on a posture that he would attack at any time, Jin had to abandon the traditional habit of the nomadic people who used to 'use troops for the people'. They helped them 'form' a large standing army, which was deployed in the vicinity of Yanjing and Zhongjing.

Meanwhile. The border conflict between the Song and Jin armies continued, and a battle was fought from time to time, generally not too large, but the timing of the outbreak was very appropriate, often in the autumn harvest season, the Song army would use the method of attack to enter the control area of the Jin army, put two torches on the crops that were about to be harvested, and drive back to order cattle and sheep, anyway, it will keep you busy for a year. In short, if you don't have to live in peace, the army is all on duty and can't rest.

Zhao Ta's trick is very bad, the climate in the north is cold, only one season can be cultivated every year, the backward production method is inefficient, and a lot of manpower is needed, and now these young people are all recruited into the army, resulting in a shortage of labor. The food produced simply cannot meet the demand. And the Song army blocked the border and revoked the field, not to mention paying tribute to them. Even if the Jurchens had money, they could not buy what they needed, so that prices skyrocketed. The price of a pound of salt reached 500 wen, and a stone of wheat cost five or six yuan.

Food and clothing think of lust, hunger and cold give birth to stealing hearts. Harsh economic conditions. The Jurchens quickly forgot that they were forced to rebel more than ten years ago because they were oppressed by the Khitans. When they passed on the crisis to the people of all ethnic groups under their rule, they forced these people to take risks. Either fleeing or embarking on the road of rebellion against tyranny, the continuous popular revolt hastened the deterioration of the economy of the country...

"Second master, how to spend New Year's Day this year, do you still want to keep everything simple?" Seeing Xi followed behind Zhao Ta and asked cautiously, it is about to usher in the third year of rejuvenation, last year, the official family 'thrift and revolution', cut the amount of money in the palace, and even canceled the song and dance of the New Year's Day court, and also called it a new style and eliminated the extravagance of officialdom, but in fact, it was because of money, and I had to calculate the spending.

"Okay, don't be verbose, I finally went out to the capital and mentioned these troubles again!" Zhao Ta waved his hand impatiently, since he returned to Beijing three years ago to take the throne, he has never left Bianjing every year except for going to Gongxian to worship his ancestors, which is like being in prison for Zhao Ta, who is 'used to being wild', and he arranged to go out of Beijing to worship his ancestors early this year.

"Second master, it's not me who is verbose, you have to prepare in advance, otherwise you won't be in a hurry when things come!" Seeing Xi said again without hesitation, he missed the days when he was with the official family all day long, although he was always teased, but now the official family is busy in the dark, and he, the head of the inner service province, also runs every day without touching the ground, and it is not easy for the two to meet.

"It's a good morning for you to stir up again, it's really a bad luck!" Zhao Ta frowned and said, this emperor is really not a person, especially to be a good emperor, his habit of walking early for many years has been replaced by the early dynasty, every day is either facing the nagging of the ministers, or the case is like a mountain, today I have to go around the cemetery, thinking that those dead ancestors will not bother me, but I didn't expect to see the joy and steal the empty time with himself.

"Second master, there were three or four thousand servants in the province back then, but now there are only more than two hundred, and they have to be assigned to serve in various palaces, I will be used by ten people alone, and if I don't make arrangements early, I can't finish it if I am tired, you feel sorry for me!" Seeing the joy said with a sad face.

"Alas, there is no way! Who made me lack money to support so many people! Zhao Ta patted Xi's shoulder, looked at his pitiful appearance and smiled.

"Second master, don't coax me anymore, if you say that last year's lack of money can still be said in the past, this year's two taxes and commercial taxes into the treasury of 63 million, and almost the same as in previous years, in addition to expenses, there is still a surplus of 20 million, which is much better than the previous generation." Seeing Xi pouted and said, the official family used this to prevaricate themselves, just now only the income of the treasury was calculated, and the small treasury was not counted.

"You are shrewd, the abacus is clanging, there is a surplus, but this money is still of great use, what if there is a famine, what if the Jurchen enters the prison again, what if there is a natural disaster, this money still needs to be emergency!" Zhao Ta asked with a tense face.

"Second master, so this year or the same as last year's arrangement?" Miki said.

"Yes, the money has to be used now, although there is a surplus, but it can't be extravagant and wasteful, it's better to make a few clothes from those silk silks from Ao Mountain!" Zhao Tan said with a smile, but he felt in his heart that the money was still a little slow.

It is said that taxes should be obscene when new tax sources are not cultivated and mature, but taxes have not been reduced, which should not only be attributed to the solution of the three redundant problems, but also should be recorded in the change of official style.

For example, in the collection of the second tax, the Song Dynasty was established at the beginning of the country on the connivance of the bureaucratic landlords, in order to show 'tolerance', while the officials took the rare preferential treatment in the past dynasties, while still embezzling and accepting bribes, favoritism, and the east window incident can also get legal exemption from the ancestors' testament.

The landlord wantonly annexed the land, but also to hide the land and not pay taxes, only the land near the capital, even the emperor did not dare to measure, this month ordered to measure, the next month to take back the order, claiming to be afraid of "disturbing the people", Wang Anshi wanted to measure the land throughout the country, and soon became a traitor.

After Zhao Ta came to power, officials at all levels were purged and replaced, and those corrupt officials were excluded. With their cooperation, the whole country has been surveyed and re-measured, and a large amount of hidden land has been discovered, so that the base of tax collection has been expanded, so that the types of taxes are less, but the amount of taxes has not decreased.

In addition, Zhao Ta still controls the commodities of salt, tea, wine, copper and iron, and also reduces the tax on the sale of salt and iron, which are closely related to life, but the tax on wine and tea is not reduced, but it is aggravated, because winemaking requires a lot of food, and drinking less wine and less tea will not kill people, nor will it cause social turmoil. These controlled items also brought 20 million yuan of income to the Great Song Dynasty.

With the reduction of tax rates and the rise of foreign trade, coastal ports have gradually formed a fixed source of tax revenue, and the scale will only become larger and larger in the future, and the money will also roll in and flow into the treasury of the Great Song Dynasty. But now Zhao Ta is planning a big operation, and the money consumed is not enough, and he has to live a hard life first... (To be continued......)