I still don't understand, so gradually no one plays the amplification cannon.

The drought continues, but no one is aware of it.

After the ceremony, Li Jue played a play.

Expensive grain hurts the people, and cheap grain hurts the peasants. The national river guide canal, through the rivers and lakes, transports grain from all over the country to the capital. The accumulation is more and more, the warehouse is full, the red rot is exposed, and the old phase has to be rewarded, and the reward cannot be lost, so that the price of a bucket of beans is only ten cents. The reward is given to the soldiers, and the family is not more than a few mouthfuls, but if you give a few grains a month, can you eat it all? Or sell it to the people of the capital, which is equivalent to using this cheap grain to support millions of people in disguise. But it is not easy for these grains to be transported to the capital, west to the Three Gorges, Antarctic Jinghu, Baoju Jiangwu, and Zhejiang, after the danger of wind and waves, the period of the years, the beginning of the Jian'an Army, Chu, Si, and the flow of the river, before being transported to the capital. Not to mention how pitiful the income of the peasants has become, how pitiful are the people along the way, as well as the servants of the army (the soldiers who escort the grain), leaving the countryside and ending up in the rivers and lakes?

In fact, this problem was also regulated by Song Jiu when he was in the third division.

But there has been no good way, such as Bashu, the tax grain is not suitable, so they have to use silk instead of tax, which leads to the strong price of Bashu silk, so that some smart merchants sell silk to Bashu, and then turn it into a tax and transport it back...... It's even more speechless.

However, can't the imperial court not levy taxes on Bashu, not on silk, on grain, and on grass? Transporting a bunch of grass from Chengdu along the Three Gorges Yangtze River and then along the Bianhe River to the capital? Is it grass or golden grass when you get to the capital? Or levy money, is the money enough for circulation?

Therefore, Song Jiu did not have a good solution.

It happened that Zhao Pu had not yet entered the Zhongshu at that time, so he issued several orders with Li Fang's acquiescence to encourage the officials of the Bashu prefectures to reward the people for planting mulberry and hemp.

Then the year before last, he held down Zhao Kuangyi's impulse to build a temple tower, and even forbade the imperial court to cast related bronze utensils, and wantonly minted money, and minted more than 7 million copper coins before and after. Let the gold shop Ya Nei capital increase shares, the gold shop fixed assets increase, everyone continue to come out of the capital together, and then issue nearly 20 million Jiaozi. In fact, it is equivalent to an increase in the amount of money in disguise.

But this is an expedient measure.

If there is not enough copper, and the copper money is insufficient, they will not dare to increase the number of Jiaozi.

As for planting mulberry and planting hemp, can it completely solve the disadvantages of Bashu silk difficulty? How much mulberry hemp can be planted to meet the needs of paying taxes to the imperial court?

It's the same in other places, if you don't pay taxes on food, what do you use to pay taxes?

Song Jiu made some adjustments. But just his military reform saved a lot of grain and grass, plus bumper harvests year after year, so the capital stored more and more grain, and Song Jiu was helpless about it.

So Li Jue thought of a way.

Since it is too unfair to the farmers. Then I had to raise the price of grain, and a bucket of beans rose to 20 yuan. With this money. The armies took the grain and gave two liters of rice to the old days. Now you can give 300 money, and people's hearts will be happy. The armies in the city can take out and sell because they have too much food, and the cultivated grain in the hands of the soldiers can be taken out and sold, which is no less than giving more money to the soldiers, and the soldiers will be happy. Food prices have risen. The appreciation of the government's grain reserves can also make a profit. If it only rises to 20 yuan per bucket, the people will not be unbearable, and the peasants will benefit again.

But that's easier said than done.

This is determined by the market. If the imperial court wants to rise to 20 Wen, it can rise to 20 Wen?

Zhao Kuangyi appreciated this twist and turn very much, and it was true that compared to others, the peasants were too bitter. After a year of hard work, the family has dozens of acres of land, tired and tired, paying taxes, in addition to the family's food and drink, can have twenty or thirty stone of surplus grain, even if it is too good to be good. However, a stone of grain is not enough for 100 yuan, how much can these stored grains be sold? What can you do with two or three times? Originally, there was cotton, but now the price of cotton cloth is falling more and more, and even the officials below do not like to use cotton cloth to pay taxes, so as not to lose money in the imperial court. The grain is really too hurtful to the peasants.

Therefore, the officials of the two governments, three divisions and two systems of the imperial history platform were invited to the government hall for discussion.

Everyone was at a loss.

Wang Xian said: "It turns out that the harvest is not a good thing? ”

There are also people who say that they make wine, and everyone rolls their eyes together, making wine, do the people of the capital not eat and drink alcohol?

Song Jiu said: "It seems that there is a bit of drought this year. Since ancient times, scarcity has been precious, and if there is more staple food, it will fall, and there is no other good way. If you really want to solve it, there is only one way, the grain in Guanzhong will not be transferred to the capital for the time being, and the grain from Jianghuai and Jinghu will be transported to the north, but not to the capital, but to Hebei. Then officials were sent to inspect the grain hoarding in each state, and the number of people was large, and some grain was hoarded in the state treasury as appropriate. He also hoarded some grain in the capital and transported it to Hedong, hoarding it as appropriate. The price of Beijing is the national price vane. The summer grain gradually came up, but the new grain did not enter the capital, and the old grain gradually came out of Hedong. The grain reserves in the capital will be greatly reduced, and the price of grain in the capital will gradually become more expensive without the need for state dispatch. Since ancient times, the state has thought that natural and man-made disasters, military disasters and wars need to prepare for nine years of grain storage. The same is prepared, only partly in the locality, and partly in the capital. Although the local situation will be a little more serious. If the price of grain is expensive, it can be dispatched to the capital. Grain prices will naturally stabilize when the economy is adjusted back and forth. Moreover, if there is a disaster and the state treasury has grain, it can be immediately relieved and save the cost of moving back and forth, which also makes up for the greed of some unscrupulous officials in the local area. In addition, the three chiefs need to exercise discretion, if the grain reserves are abundant, they can ask the local officials to use other things for taxes, or even gold and silver for taxes, then they can directly use it to pay officials' salaries and military salaries. ”

is a solution.

However, such "macro" regulation and control, and now that various officials do not have the economic acumen, it will be much more troublesome to carry it out.

But the grain is indeed too cheap, in the Tang Dynasty when prices were low and the money was more expensive than the Song Dynasty, a bucket of millet cost four or five cents, that was the year of the Great Rule. Now a bucket of beans is only sold for ten cents, but how cheap is the price of grain?

Therefore, Song Jiu laughed at himself again: "Your Majesty, although the peasants are a little harder, if there is no military disaster, at least the people will not starve to death because of the high cost of food." ”

Everyone couldn't help but smile bitterly together.

Zhao Kuangyi said: "Let's do it." ”

It is a top priority, and it is rare for the two governments and three divisions to unite together and work together to deal with this matter. So much so that the big-mouthed Ba Tian Xi saw that the price of grain was finally slowly rising, and played again, it should have been like this for a long time, and the country will be reconciled, and the country will prosper, look at what the two provinces have become!

Zhao Pu treated Tian Xi as a neuropath.

Song Jiu thought that Tian Xi was a bookseller.

In fact, even Zhao Kuangyi is regretting. If these two people do not contradict each other, unite with each other, and with their talents, how lucky should the country be?

But there is no solution to the problem, convince Zhao Pu, sorry, use the old minister, you have to tolerate the shortcomings of the old minister. Persuade Song Jiu, what, let me let me. It's good that I didn't do anything like Zhao Pu, and let me?

So Zhao Kuangyi came to these two people together, and couldn't help but feel sad......

The two went on their own business.

Zhao Pu carefully operated for the country, and no one else underestimated him. At the beginning, he was optimistic about Song Qi and Li Fang, and the two took the throne one after another.

This time, he was optimistic about Lu Mengzheng again. Lu Mengzheng's spring has finally arrived, and even Zhao Yuanxi wants to take the throne. I want to behave. It's not safe to win over Zhao Pu, after all, Zhao Pu is old, so he secretly woos Lu Mengzheng. Zhao Pu was fakely wooed, and Lu Mengzheng was really wooed by him.

Zhao Pu also turned a blind eye to this.

Even Zhao Pu was in Zhongfangli Baidu, and actually found Kou Zhun and transferred him to the capital. greatly admired it, so Zhao Kuangyi was promoted to a privy councilor, and even heard that Kou Zhun's first wife Xu died, and Zhao Kuangyi personally gave marriage. Marry the younger sister of Empress Xiao Song to Kou Zhun.

Some people say that Xiao Kou's life is not good, but he is actually wrong, he is really a good life, he is just a child of a small official eunuch, Xu Zhongxuan appreciated it, and married his daughter to him, Xu Zhongxuan is not much worse than the old Song Dynasty, he is also a famous minister of the Song Dynasty, a generation of high-ranking officials, and he has not entered the two mansions. The second lady is the daughter of Lao Song. With these two family affairs alone, he has gained countless contacts and successfully entered a quasi-wealthy family.

But now Xiao Kou is a little depressed, Song Jiu and Zhao Pu are incompatible, and he is appreciated by both of them at the same time, what should I do?

After thinking about it, it's not yet time for him to enter the whirlpool show.

At the same time, Zhao Pu also praised Zhang Qixian, knowing that Zhang Qixian and Song Jiu had a tacit relationship, and recommended it again and again, which made Song Jiu look at this gray-haired old guy with hatred and fear.

Song Jiu was also doing his own thing.

After the Battle of the Tang River, Yizhou lost and was temporarily unable to fight back.

Then the Broken Army was at the forefront, and this time Liangmen (Jingrong Military City, now Xushui, Hebei) and Suicheng became the top priority.

Li Jilong recommended Wei Neng, Song Jiu was not very clear, and he was actually speechless, because later generations desperately demonized the Song Dynasty, so that the deeds of the Song Dynasty's martial arts could not be widely known. Song Jiu's poor golden finger is still obtained from reading overhead novels, or unreliable channels such as TV dramas, and if you don't see it, you don't know what to do, and even if you see it, it may not be accurate. Therefore, Tian Min doesn't know the way, Wei Neng doesn't know the way, and Jing Si doesn't know the way......

But Li Jilong recommended it, maybe it was Tian Min again, so Song Jiu agreed.

However, the other person was appointed by Song Jiu, who won a great victory in the front, and sent people to take advantage of the emptiness of the Liao army in Liaodong to land directly on the Liaodong Peninsula and transfer Yang Yanzhao back to Liaodong. As for Shi Pu, a famous general in history, he continued to stay in Liaodong. Don't dare to let it go, and the rest of the generals don't dare to let it go. At least now is not the time to come back.

This back and forth has an advantage, and many terrains in eastern Liaodong are gradually well understood. But running a lot, the Liao State was also alert, Yang Yanzhao was discovered by the Liao people when he came back, fortunately not far from the sea, there were not many Liao soldiers who encircled and suppressed, and later Dalian was an empty place, so Yang Yanzhao fought out of the encirclement and boarded the ship.

But there is no way for Liao.

Their ship skills are backward, how can they prevent the long coastline?

Yang Yanzhao immediately landed from Cangzhou and went to Suicheng.

In fact, at this time, the dazzling stars of Hebei are unimaginable, Li Jilong, Jing Si, Li Jixuan, Yin Jilun, Tian Min, Wei Neng, Yang Yanzhao, Yuan Jizhong, Fan Yanzhao, Kong Shouzheng, Sun Quanzhao, the commander of the army...... may even Cui Yanjin have to stand back, at least compared to these "outlaws", Cui Yanjin is far inferior in bravery.

Therefore, in the future, Li Zicheng regarded himself as a descendant of Li Jiqian.

It is not easy to make a living under these outlaws and develop and grow.

Song Jiu was exterminated in time, and in a few years, Li Jiqian gradually matured militarily, even if he sent an army of 100,000 to clear it, it might not be successful. Although he was a mess when he started. Song Jiu also vaguely knew about the Dao, but he didn't know it, and he also underestimated Li Jiqian's ability. Maybe in this time and space, Li Jiqian will always be underestimated.

In fact, there is another person, Wang Xian, who is under Song Jiu's eyelids, and Song Jiu is also underestimated.

Then he asked the general Hu Tingzan to go to Baozhou under the Weilu army, and the walled city was in Baozhou.

In addition to the transfer of generals, the transfer of troops.

The northwest side was similar to what Song Jiu thought. But it was worse than the court thought.

The imperial court did a good job, not only benefiting everyone from the trade routes, but also liberalizing the salt profits, and also teaching the local people to keep livestock in captivity to increase their income. However, a number of rebellions followed. However, without the leadership of the great Western Xia founding emperor Li Jiqian, it was not a climate and was quickly suppressed.

However, after a long time, it is very beneficial to integration, especially the measures to encourage the Qiang and Han families, as well as the captive settlement. There are also some people who moved from the two families of the Zhewang family, and some tribes close to the Song Dynasty fled from the Jiashan area of the Liao State, and successively divided the system on various oases in the Nanhetao. With them, it has somewhat constrained the strength of the heroes who are determined to be difficult, as well as the strength of some of the remnants of Li Jiqian's forces on the Gobi Desert.

The court saw the sad side. It's so difficult to raise, what else do we need to do? Song Jiu saw it on the gratifying side. At least better than a Great Xia Kingdom standing in the northwest.

Because the northwest has not yet settled. Yin Xian continued to stay in the northwest, and then reassigned Tian Renlang and Wang Yu to the northwest, and Song Jiu reminded them that the two were not put together, except for these three people, there was also Zhai Shousu. Liu Yong, Zhang Ning, Zheng Wenbao, Yang Qiong. Some can fight, some can't, but because none of them are strong enemies, it is difficult to identify.

Among them, Yang Qiong is the oldest, and he is the leader in training cavalry.

It takes a long time for a cavalry to take shape, not just like Song Jiu, who can only run on horseback, but also fight, fight, shoot, and cooperate with each other on horseback.

However, the consumption of soldiers is huge, and the number of forbidden soldiers is insufficient, and the more this is the case, the more forbidden soldiers are needed in the capital to stay, and the more tense the front-line troops will be.

Song Jiu thought about it, and finally informed Yang Qiong, you pick 10,000 passable cavalry to come over, whether it is a forbidden soldier or a forbidden soldier, but the forbidden soldiers of Fan Qiang must be soldiers whose families have migrated to the capital or near Gyeonggi, otherwise they will not want to fight when they come to Hebei.

Song Jiuluo, the Tibetan soldier in the northwest in history, has some impressions, that is, the majesty of Di Qing's Tibetan soldiers when he won a great victory at Kunlun Pass.

But then when Tong Guan went on the Northern Expedition, he was the strongest western soldier, and he also had a cavalry, but he was defeated. It can't be said that Tong Guan can't do it, it was he and the generals who laid down Qinghai and once opened up the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty to Xinjiang. It can't be said that the water and soil are not adapted, is it worse than the Lingnan water and soil? Or in other words, fighting year after year, the soldiers are tired of fighting, isn't it just a battle, is it more tiring than fighting in the Western Xia? Or that Yelu Dashi, the founder of Western Liao, was too good, so he was defeated.

Song Jiu didn't know what the reason was, so Song Jiu was a little skeptical about what the combat effectiveness of this army would be after it went to Hedong, Hebei. But I believe that it will not be worse than the combat effectiveness of the Song Dynasty. However, there is another problem, individual ruthlessness is useless, and it must be powerful as a whole in order to exert combat effectiveness. If Li Jilong's subordinates really fight alone, can one PK five or six Liaoguo iron horses? This also requires the command ability and morale of the generals, as well as their respective military discipline and formation, and coordination.

But this gives the generals of Hebei a headache.

After the order was issued, Yang Qiong selected more than 4,000 Han cavalry and more than 5,000 Qiang cavalry, led by Zhang Ning, and arrived in Hebei.

It is gold that will eventually shine, such as Wang Chao under Panmei in Hedong, and gradually performed well.

Zhang Ning was a young man, Zhang Mei saw Hou Zhuangzhi in Cangzhou, summoned the tent, and was brought to the mansion by Zhao Kuangyi as a personal guard. But including Zhao Kuangyi, no one was too careful, but he was Zhao Kuangyi's person, so he was appointed as the commander of the palace, and was transferred to the northwest to cooperate with Yang Qiong to train cavalry soldiers. Only then did Yang Qiong gradually see his talent, and he was born as the emperor's personal guard, so he let him lead these 10,000 horsemen to Hebei.

In fact, Yang Qiong himself can also fight, and Yang Si, the younger brother of Yang Xin, who stayed in Gaoyang Pass and served as the warlord of Gaoyang Pass, Song Jiu has not noticed it.

Cao Bin's son Cao Can has a good relationship with him, and he is also in Hebei, and his performance is okay, but he does not meet Song Jiu's requirements. So Song Jiu paid attention to Xiao Cao, Cao Wei, he was too young to cultivate at all. However, he noticed Xiao Xiaocao, but he didn't notice Gao Qiong's eldest son, Gao Jixun.

In fact, during this period of time, the Song Dynasty was like a cloud, but it was a pity that the imperial court did not use them well.

Song Jiu was deliberately observing, but he didn't know what to do, he could only really observe, so the excavation was very slow, and he still didn't pay much attention to Sun Quanzhao, including Zhang Ning and Yang Qiong, who recommended that he only go to Hebei as a prisoner of the Tianxiong Army. The Tianxiong army is in the west of Bazhou, with dense rivers and swamps, and it is not the first choice for the invasion of the Liao State, not the main war zone.

But having said that, it is enough to talk about generals.

And the arrival of 10,000 cavalry, although the defense areas are divided, but it has somewhat increased the strength of the front.

In the face of this change, Yelu Hugo still did not pay attention, so the battle of Xu He started again in his carelessness. (To be continued......)