The two old ministers are worthy of being old fritters, and they guessed the emperor's thoughts. After Zhao Ta received the news of the deaths of Zong Ze and Hebule one after another, he suddenly realized that he had reached middle age, and the life span of people in ancient times was very short, so there was an old saying that 'people live for seventy years', even the emperor who was called 'long live' every day was no exception. The longevity gene of the old Zhao family also seems to be lacking, there are few long-lived people, most of them die at the age of fifty or sixty, especially after the Divine Sect, they all die early, but his father has now broken the nightmare of 'early death'.

As he gets older, Zhao Ta is also faced with a choice, he wants to leave his children and grandchildren a peaceful world, a glorious history, but Zhao Ta knows very well that this is just his own wishful thinking, there is no immortal dynasty in the world, and there is no eternal foundation, and the history of short-lived dynasties that have ended in several generations abounds, and he is just a continuation of the national fortune of the Great Song Dynasty, without the Jurchens, without the Mongols, there will be the rise and invasion of other ethnic groups, and even the appearance of a handful of unscrupulous descendants, who have lost the family business of their ancestors, It will be overwhelmed by the progress of history.

Zhao Ta also understands that there is no city in the world that cannot be attacked, a river that cannot be crossed, even if a bronze wall of Luoyang City is built, it is difficult to ensure that it will not be breached, and it is a joke to pin the entire national fortune on a city, Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall and failed to block the invasion of foreign enemies, and the Maginot Line in modern times is even more difficult to resist the crushing of Nazi tanks. Therefore, moving the capital to Luoyang is not just from the perspective of defense, but according to the current development of the situation, he is just doing the things in front of him, and he will have his descendants to worry about in the future!

The Yellow River is known as the mother river, but it is also a river that has been plagued by disasters and has caused numerous disasters throughout its history. Swallowed up countless lives. When Kaifeng was close to the Yellow River and enjoyed the convenience brought by the water transportation, it was also facing the danger of being submerged at all times. As far as Zhao Ta knows, Kaifeng has been submerged several times in history. As a result, the wonder of 'city on the city' was left, and the Song Dynasty left behind in Kaifeng City in addition to the records and legends of historical books. In his previous life, he left only a mound and a pagoda known as the Dragon Pavilion.

After Zhao Tan succeeded to the throne, he set aside special funds to mobilize a large number of people and troops, raise dikes, and dredge rivers to ensure that the Beijing division would not suffer from floods. But he knew that with the technology of this era, it was impossible to completely eliminate the flood, and the efforts of himself and his predecessors were only to delay the arrival of the disaster, so the only remaining choice was 'unable to provoke and hide', although it was a shame for a 'omnipotent' traverser.

In addition, Bianjing at this time had a population of more than one million, and in ancient times it could already be called a super-large city, and it had the same drawbacks as modern big cities, such as traffic congestion, narrow development space, and huge consumer spending, and in ancient times with low productivity. The barren land around Kaifeng is far from enough to support such a large number of people, especially the heavy dependence on the southeast region for food and capital, resulting in the rich capital and the poor southeast, resulting in an excessively large development gap between the north and the south.

Less than 100 years later, the people's strength in the south of the Yangtze River was almost exhausted, the economic development of the rich lower reaches of the Yangtze River was stagnant, the Song government often could not make ends meet, the huge military expenditure made the government and the people breathless, and the financial "poverty" and military "weakness" became an irreversible trend. Now Zhao Ta opened the sea to trade. The vigorous development of the handicraft industry enabled Jiangnan to recover, but the north suffered a great loss of vitality after the Jingkang Rebellion, so that the finance still depended on Jiangnan for supply.

Now with the implementation of the military line of Zhao Ta's expansion. The Song Dynasty has recovered the sixteen states of Yanyun and reached as far as the Mobei region, although the Jin State still exists. But the military threat in the north has greatly lessened, and the Central Plains has become the rear. Moving the capital to Luoyang in the north would not only avoid excessive financial dependence on Jiangnan, but also promote the economic development of the Central Plains. In this way, the economic recovery of the entire north will be promoted......

Since the founding of the country, there have actually been two opportunities to move the capital to the best time, one is that when Taizu founded the country, he took Luoyang as the capital in the name of 'bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new', but limited to the historical conditions at that time, Taizu finally succumbed to the opposition of his ministers and failed to succeed;

But Zhao Ta did not move the capital, firstly, because Luoyang was dilapidated and the land was barren, it was difficult to make the trip in a hurry; The two are out of stabilizing people's hearts, and when the two monarchs hunted north and the north of the Yellow River fell, recovering the capital had practical significance; The third is that Zhao Tan doesn't want to bear the reputation of a 'coward', he wants to move the capital in a dignified manner after defeating the Jurchens and destroying the country, so as not to make the world laugh at him because he is afraid that he will move the capital and hide immediately after becoming the emperor. Therefore, after Zhao Tan succeeded to the throne, when the situation was settled, he sent King Zhao Qi to repair the city, renovate the palace, dredge the canal, and develop the economy in the name of relocating the children of the royal family, so as to move the capital when the time was ripe in the future.

The relocation of the capital can be said to be a major event of the country, requiring huge expenses and causing a series of social problems, and everyone will definitely not agree to all of them, for which Zhao Ta has also made comprehensive preparations. He carefully studied the opposition opinions of the ministers when Taizu moved the capital, and combined them with the 'Chen Bayan' of Li Fu, the living man at that time, and Li Huaizhong's advances.

Li Fu said in the book: "Jingyi withered, one also; The palace is not prepared, and the second is also; The suburban temple has not been repaired, and the three are also; Hundred divisions do not have, four also; The people of Jinnai are poor, and they are also five; The military food is not sufficient, and the six are also; The barrier is not set, and the seven are also; Thousands of rides in the summer, eight also. Li Huaizhong said: "There is a canal in Tokyo, and millions of Jianghuai rice have been sent every year, and hundreds of thousands of troops have been sent to Yan. Your Majesty lives here, will you take it in peace? And the treasury is heavily armed, all of which are in the beams, which have been stable for a long time and cannot be shaken. Once they want to migrate, they don't see the benefits. "As far as the situation at that time is concerned, Li Huaizhong and Li Fu's reasons are very sufficient and realistic.

But now that Luoyang has been in operation by Zhao Ta for more than ten years, these problems are not a problem, and the main resistance will come from vested interests like Taizong. Although Zhao Ta has not yet determined a successor, Bianjing has been the capital of the Great Song Dynasty for nearly 200 years, and has formed a huge local power, they have an intertwined relationship with the imperial family and court officials, and have great influence, and the relocation of the capital will hinder their interests and will also attract their strong opposition.

At that time, Taizong persuaded Taizu to "not be in danger in Germany" also had a large market in the Great Song Dynasty, where Confucianism was prevalent, and they believed that "the fundamental factor that determines the rise and fall of the country is political factors, not geographical factors. I thought that simply relying on virtue and politics would make the country eternal.

Even the far-sighted people of this dynasty were aware of the shortcomings of using Bianjing as the capital. Fan Zhongyan, a famous minister, said: "Luoyang is dangerous, Bianbian is the land of four wars, Taiping is livable and livable, and there is something to live in Luoyang." The famous general Han Qi also suggested: "Beirong is heavy, and the Beijing division is frank and unprepared. If he is victorious, he will rush to the abyss. If the capital is strong, the soldiers of Heshuo should not fight. He must not fight, and if he wants to go deep, there will be a strong city in front of him, and there will be heavy troops in the back, and he will be hindered and retreat. Retreat and invite, hit it, you can also. It is a pity that their opinions were not taken seriously by the supreme ruler or discouraged, and thus left a legacy to future generations.

Later generations Gu Zuyu summed it up well, he said: Although virtue is not dangerous, and the righteousness of setting up risks and closing is not to be omitted...... The land of the four battles in Bian, the deepest enemy, the disaster of the late Emperor Liang is worse than that of the king, the humiliation of Jingkang is more than that of Shi Jin, and the monstrous immersion is close at hand.

Zhao Ta also has another view on the 'theory of virtue and risk', as far as the rule of virtue and the defense of the country in danger are concerned, although the rule of virtue should be put in the first place, but the danger and defense of the country must not be ignored. But talking about morality with the enemy is no different from seeking skin with the tiger, a mouth full of benevolence and morality cannot defeat the knife in the hands of the murderous enemy, morality is only useful for those who talk about morality, and it is not even a fart for the invader......

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Zhao Ta, who was hunting in Dongdu Yuan at the moment, didn't know what Li Gang and Chen Yu said that he had just hunted two deer during the day and handed them over to the cooks to take care of. Seeing that the emperor wanted to go out, a team of guards on duty immediately stepped forward to escort them, Zhao Ta waved his hand to let them retreat, and only Wangfu followed with a few internal guards.

The Eastern Capital Garden is the station of the leopard generals, and the emperor has naturally arranged a guard to hunt here, and the entire Eastern Capital Garden has been enclosed, prohibiting idle people from entering. The guards were responsible for the security of the camp, and a second defensive ring was arranged five miles around the imperial tent, and the inner guard brigade was responsible for the defense of the core part, that is, the safety of the emperor and his family. This is in the country, and there are elites all around, so everyone is relieved to let the emperor out of the camp.

"You're on duty today?" Zhao Ta walked for a while and saw a duty point set up by a leopard general on the side of the road, and he said to a soldier standing guard.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" That little soldier was only sixteen or seventeen years old, but the armband was from Luoyang martial arts, and when he heard the emperor's question, he immediately raised his hand and saluted.

"Is it okay to let him walk with me?" Zhao Ta returned the salute and said to an officer with the rank of lieutenant next to him.

"Your Majesty, of course you can!" Where did the officer dare not agree, he immediately stepped forward to take the spear in the soldier's hand and motioned for him to go with the emperor, but the soldier didn't seem to be very happy, pouted and took off the equipment on his body, and was reluctant to go. In front of the emperor's lieutenant, he didn't dare to get angry, and secretly scolded him in his heart that he really didn't know what to do, how much honor it was to be able to talk to the emperor, and I don't know what kind of wind this kid smoked...... (To be continued......)