It's helpless, but you can suffer in the east and make up for it in the west! The Jin Kingdom also had a relationship with the Western Xia and a field with ethnic minorities further north, such as the Mongols. In these two places, the Jurchens continue to play the original image, winning or losing, bullying and dominating the market... The harvest is also huge.

As the days passed, Wan Yan Yong was always steady. The internal policy has been consistent, and the external policy is even more leaky, even if the Southern Song Dynasty has deliberately set a trap several times, he has been resolved to the point that he is not alarmed, and this kind of stability has lasted for 27 years!

It is outrageous that this person is still saying before he dies, "While I am still healthy, if there are imperfect decrees and inconsistent laws and regulations, they should be proposed for revision and revision, and I will not slack off."

Wanyan Yong makes people desperate! On the south bank of the Yangtze River, Zhao Tuan seemed to be facing a soft air, and every time he tried to smash something, he found that it was empty, and there were no consequences...

Wan Yan Yong driven, or rather forced, all the people at that time to live a peaceful and stable life with him. For the Southern Song Dynasty, this killed many of the Song people's dreams; As far as the people are concerned, whether it is the Jin Kingdom or the Southern Song Dynasty, they will be very fortunate because of peace. In the end, Yan Yong I, the war never broke out again!

This year, only 17 people were sentenced to death in Kinko.

Wan Yan Yong reigned for more than 27 years, "Sejong has long been in the outer county, the cause of the chaos is clear, and the gains and losses of the officials are governed." The north and the south make peace, rest with the people, and diligently seek governance, so as to be the way of the king, the upper and lower levels are at peace, and the family is sufficient. When it was called Xiao Yao Shun"

No matter how good Jin Guo is, looking across the river, he always responds to the old saying "Looking at the scenery across the river, it's always good over there", so no matter what kind of achievements Yan Yong makes, Zhao Tuan is not convinced. The Song people who are a little sensible are not convinced! Let's take a look at the Southern Song Dynasty:

After the Longxing Peace Conference, Zhao Tuan was the nephew emperor abroad and the emperor at home, and as far as the eye could see, there were cats and dogs almost everywhere, and each of them dared to jump out and bark a few times!

But reality doesn't allow Zhao Tuan to do nothing! Objectively speaking: Zhao Gou's legacy to him is more rubbish than the mess left by Wan Yan Liang to Wan Yan Yong, and almost all the government crises are integrated!

First, there is the corruption of officials. In Lin'an City, the top high-ranking officials have nothing to do all day long, and they turn a blind eye to the more and more Wen Jiàn that accumulates on their desks, even if it really becomes a mountain. Because you have to do work. It's going to be looked down upon... That's cumbersome, figurative, low-level expression. Officials at all levels in the field do only two things: they speculate in order to get promoted. Clever taxation and extortion in order to bribe. Miscellaneous. Here's an example:

One summer, there was a great drought in Lianghuai, and locusts were infested. Note: These two points together don't just make people unable to live. Even the bugs can't stand it! There weren't many crops in the summer. The locusts swooped to the sky in search of food. As a result, not a single straw pole could be seen in the place where the disaster was severe, so the insects could only hold on to all kinds of dry branches to die aggrievedly...

This made the local officials overjoyed, and Yao Yue moved the fastest. He wrote a chapter to report to the emperor, saying: Since Huaibei, locusts have all hugged plants and trees to die. This is an unprecedented Jiarui, which shows that His Majesty has governed the country in a good way, moved the heavens, moved the earth, and moved the ghosts and gods... It must be congratulated in Chongqing and commemorated in the annals of history...

Zhao Tuan has this kind of courtiers in batches, how enviable! And what is even more gratifying: the size of such officials is growing rapidly every moment...

The number of officials in Beijing, referring to the great Renzong Dynasty, was less than 2,000, and the maximum number of officials in the late Northern Song Dynasty was no more than 2,700 in the Zhao Ji era, and at this time there were nearly 4,000 in Lin'an City. And that's just on the job, and the various alternate officials remain at around 8,000 people, ready to join the civil service...

The number of local officials cannot be counted, but the incomplete statistics of the 7 prefectures of Liangzhedong Road, where the capital Lin'an is located, have reached the total number of registered officials in Lin'an City! You can imagine what kind of official-based world the entire south of the Huai River will be!

On these bases, the number of officials is still increasing uncontrollably! The number of scientific expeditions held every three years was more than in the Northern Song Dynasty, reaching a maximum of 500. In addition, the grace of Yin Bu and Ren Zi is multiplied by 5 for each official, and 5 descendants can get a quota. This is only a few, and the officials, in the spirit of selfless "patriotism", also recommend countless "white people" to the imperial court at any time, that is, ordinary people who have no fame, no information, and no background...

These people's salaries are a chilling number! History: At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, there were only 1.5 million taels in the whole year, with an average of 125,000 taels per month. At the time of the Divine Sect, it increased to 360,000 per month. In the Zhao Gou era, it increased to 800,000 yuan per month, and it was Zhao Tuan's turn to be 1.2 million yuan per month!

The territory has shrunk, the land has become smaller, the number of officials has increased, and the wages have become inflated! And that's just the base salary, not counting all sorts of super lucrative rewards!

As for the army, it is even more outrageous! Just mention one point: the Sichuan Xuanfu Division, which is known as a strong soldier, commands more than 70,000 troops, and 17,700 generals at all levels, with an average of less than 4 soldiers led by each officer!

The expenditure of military spending is a different scene: the Huaixi army spends 11 million yuan, the Huguang army costs more than 960 yuan, the Huaidong army more than 700 yuan, and the largest Sichuan army reaches 30 million to 40 million yuan a year! A total of about 57.60-67.6 million!

At the end of the Song Dynasty, the highest annual revenue of the treasury was 65.3 million!

How can such a country be a game? All of these are the appearance of the country, and the Northern Song Dynasty will not appear until the era of Yingzong, forcing Shenzong to cut it drastically before it can be reinvigorated. At this time, the Southern Song Dynasty was only the second, and it was eroded to this point, so I asked Zhao Tuan if he should do something? He did it seriously!

In terms of governance, limit sources and lay off people together! In a short time, the ranks of officials began to shrink. And the financial aspect is not so simple, he will hit a lot of mountains every step he takes, such as "his father" Zhao Gou.

The country's finances are so tight, the emperor takes the lead in making trouble! One day, Zhao Tuan was checking the account book and found that someone was making wine without permission. Wine is an important source of national income and is a special supply and sale material. Not to mention private manufacturing, even private sales are crimes. But Zhao Gou just opened a winemaking workshop in his Deokshou Palace, openly moving in and out every day, bringing large quantities of wine into the market. Yu Shitai specially reported on this matter, and Zhao Tuan felt a headache. Want to deal with it? Don't deal with it? Do you really not deal with it?

I am struggling. "Daddy" exploded first! Zhao Gou sent someone to question Zhao Yan: This is true, what do you want?

Zhao Tuan's filial piety nerve attacked, the matter of alcohol was ignored, and the relevant personnel of the Yushitai were expelled. He felt that this could show his impeccable filial piety, and he knew that these thousands of miles of rivers and mountains were given to him by his "father", and what was a little wine tax? Words like "ungrateful white-eyed wolf", never want to be close to him Zhao Yan!

But the people down there don't do it! The prime minister took the lead in opposing it, and the edict of dismissal was withheld and not executed! Zhao Tuan was in a hurry, didn't he fall into injustice? He asked the prime minister to reprimand him sternly. The prime minister said: The clerks in Deokshou Palace are all eunuchs. What do you know about state affairs? For their sake, the officer was withdrawn. Who will worry about the country in the future?

You can say that again! It is right in the middle of Zhao Tuan's vital point. His Majesty the Emperor was immediately in a good mood, and he took back his fate, and the imperial history did not have to be laid off! But the moonshine affair is over, and he is determined not to pursue it again...

He thought about it. Zhao Gou hasn't done it yet! A few days later. Deoksugung summoned to the court. Invite your son to drink. After the wine came up, I found a small sign on the bottle, which said "Made in Deoksugung Palace" to invite the emperor to drink moonshine. Hundreds of officials and princes are following, see if you drink or not?

Zhao Tuan has drunk countless cups of bitter wine in his life, which is only a small cup of insignificance. What's so hard about it? Tilt your head and swallow it!

His father's wine was delicious, and his subordinates were angry. Speaking of finance, this is the most important pillar of the national line of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty, which is more important than the invasion of foreign enemies, and Zhao Tuan has to govern it no matter what!

In short, the financial chaos of the Southern Song Dynasty at this time was to the extreme! First of all, there is overlap of institutions, and each is not coordinated. For example, the financial management agency at the central level is the Household Department Zuozangku, which is the only responsible department specified by the state. But there are also Zuozang South Library, Zuozang Sealing Pile Library, Inner Treasure Library, Privy Council Reward Library of the Three Provinces, Contract Basis Division, Xiu Internal Division, State Utility Division and other departments, once the state taxes come up, all reach out and ask for money! And each one is absolutely independent and does not listen to constraints!

For example, Zuozang Nanku, which was privately created by Qin Hui when he was in power, he allocated a large part of the tax income from the household department to the treasury for various reasons, for his personal expenses. After Qin Hui's death, Zhao Gou took this library into his own possession along with the Qin Mansion of Wangxian Bridge, and became the small treasury of the Emperor Taishang.

The reality forced Zhao Tuan to think of all kinds of ways that were not the way. He appointed the prime minister, the governor and other ministers to form a special financial department to manage tax revenues at all levels in a unified manner! This is theoretically possible. The prime minister and deputy prime minister are the highest-ranking officials in the country, and their joint appearance is enough to suppress and manage all kinds of treasury and sort out the country's finances!

But first, the prime minister can't get everyone, not only Zhao Gou is inside, but Zhao Tuan himself is also one of the resistances! The left Tibetan sealing pile library and the inner storage library were set up by him, and he was also the master of the money from the national endowment! Second, the prime ministers are too busy, there are many national affairs themselves, and then countless account books are pressed, this task is too heavy, and no one can come after a backlog of many years! The most terrible thing is that thirdly, this department itself is the opposite of the only financial management department in the country, and it is still the prime minister and deputy prime minister, and to tell the truth, its strength in disrupting the country's financial order is unprecedentedly huge!

There are many difficulties, and Zhao Tuan is by no means angry! He remembered what his seventh ancestor, Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, had done. Zhao Kuangyin once worked hard to save money, saying that he bought the head of a Khitan soldier with 20 horses of silk, and his elite soldiers were only 100,000, and about 2 million horses of silk could be a big thing...

After a different time, the price must have risen, but Zhao Tuan is determined to keep up with Taizu! Save as much money as you can to complete the plan to destroy the gold and restore the Song Dynasty! Driven by this great wish, Zhao Tuan struggled hard in the erosive and smelly environment of government and in the financial quagmire full of holes and reaches, so that the money increased little by little. This is really not easy, regardless of the various small and medium-sized troubles that continue to appear, there will be natural disasters at every turn. And his father, Zhao Gou, will also reach out from time to time and take away the money he has worked so hard to save. As for the reason, it is very bright, "Son, I don't have enough pocket money recently", "Son, you see I'm about to have a birthday", "Son, your mother is going to have a birthday recently", "Son, your second aunt is also going to have a birthday..."

Each one is a huge number, and a little mention will open everyone's eyes. The necessary monthly cost is 100,000 yuan to Deoksugung Palace. 480,000 yuan per year is Zhao Gou's pocket money, which has to be calculated separately. In addition, the expenses of all kinds of people in the palace are also responsible for the government. In addition to the various birthdays and festivals mentioned above, sometimes Zhao Tuan is also cheap, and if he drinks too much, he will promise his father "200,000 yuan in two days, talk about filial piety" After waking up, Zhao Tuan was in a cold sweat, and he couldn't wait to pump his mouth! He decided to play dumb. After two days, everyone will forget about it, will Dad be serious? He underestimated the thickness of Zhao Gou's face too much! Zhao Gou asked him very seriously, "Why don't you honor it", Zhao Tuan was speechless. With the respect of the emperor and the filial piety of the sect, will it be repaid? There's really no money! It's so easy to save some points, and it really hurts to hand them over. In the end, it was the Empress Dowager Wu who came forward to round the scene and handed over 200,000 yuan on his behalf...

Deoksugung Palace is the place of Zhao Tuan's nightmare. He didn't want to go, he didn't dare to go, but he couldn't help but go! It's decorated like a fairyland. A large pond was dug in the palace and injected into the water of the West Lake, which was called the Great Dragon Pond. The rocks on the shore are stacked as mountains, named "Banzai Mountain", which sounds like Genyue? That's right! Deshou Palace is a miniature version of Zhao Gou's memory of the magnificent and unparalleled Northern Song Dynasty palace garden! There are countless pavilions and pavilions in the palace, in the summer, "the rockery in front of the hall, the bamboo, the ancient pine, do not see the sun, and there is no heat", the pavilion and the bridge next to the pond rockery in the palace are made of Sichuan stone that Wu Lan entered, "clear as jade, hinged with gold nails", "carved on the four sides of the sill. The center of the bridge is made of four pavilions, built with Silla white Luo wood, extremely elegant and clean, "under the bridge is a thousand leaves of white lotus." The couch, the table, the bottle, the stove, the wine vessel, etc., are all carved from crystal. In addition, there is also a "stone pond in Deshou Palace, with mercury floating gold fish on it" so wonderful, but in the eyes of Zhao Tuan, it is like a magic cave that swallows money! crushing his dreams all the time, messing up his career, and never helping him at all!

Many years later, maybe he will clearly realize that "Dad" is not a shameless attack, and he is cheeky and only asks for money. It's helping him! Because Zhao Gou thinks: We must always make this kid short of money in his hands in order to ensure the safety of Jiangnan!

Thousands of difficulties, fortunately, the hard-working Han people can engage in production no matter how difficult the environment is. So thanks to the blessings of the people, the emperor's wallet still bulged little by little, allowing him to do something about dignity...

On January 1, the first year of the Gandao (1165), Song Xiaozong estimated that he had lost confidence in the Great Song Dynasty of Longxing, so he changed the name of the era from Longxing to Gandao. (To be continued......)