As a large number of recruits, Beiwei troops, and Xianping troops went to Nanhetao one after another, although many tuntian fields were gradually cultivated in the local area, they could not afford the supply of food. Of course, there are training facilities in various parts of Gyeonggi, but the effect is much weaker.

So Pei Ji was transferred to Xiazhou again, this person has quite a political achievement in Lingzhou, the decision is fair, Zhuqiang is convinced, and at the same time build water conservancy, attach importance to agricultural production, a rare good minister and good general with both civil and military skills.

Just as Xiang Minzhong entered the West Mansion to pick up the burden, Wang Xian's ability was slightly inferior.

So Wang Xian was transferred to Dingzhou, and he was awarded the Shannan Dongdao Jiedu, the Pingzhangshi under the Tongzhong Shumen, the Dingzhou Road Xingying Deployment, and the Hebei Capital Transfer Envoy and Dingzhou. That is, let him preside over the border affairs of Hebei, and then because Kong Shouzheng proposed, when the Khitan invasion, the three roads of Zhen, Ding, and Gaoyangguan were deployed, and Xu was cheap to engage in.

There is a background to this appointment, the Liao State is ambitious and can invade the south at any time, but the generals of Hebei are headed by Qunlong, and each of them is not strong enough to fight, and it is necessary to have a person with high prestige who understands military affairs.

Wang Xian is undoubtedly competent.

But then there are personnel transfers.

Wang Huaji dismissed the prime minister as his own official.

He didn't make a mistake, and it wasn't because of the Song-Jiu relationship, because there was a new appointment below. With Feng Zheng and Chen Yaosu as the matter, Xue Ying, Liang Ding, and Yang Yi as the knowledge system, isn't it more intimate to talk about the relationship between Yang Yi?

The main Wang Huaji stayed in Zhongshu for too long, five or six years, and if he didn't go, he had to retire.

Up and down is the theme of the Song Dynasty's bureaucracy.

Not only civilian officials, but also military generals.

Song Jiu suddenly thought of Wang Anshi's art of war, but at that time, a military leader dared to occupy Yizhou. If he wants to be called a king, how can he say it?

With the two of them as the same knowledge of the Privy Council.

Wang Qinruo returned from Xichuan. He was appeased and moved to participate in political affairs.

But this up and down. The constant changes in personnel made Song Jiu feel a sense of time tension.

It is impossible for him to stay in Zhongshu for the rest of his life, and once he is transferred after a few years, all his plans will be lost. Can anyone else take the lead? He was skeptical.

For example, one day, Wu Shu, a staff member and a foreign officer, had a whim, and he wanted to promote the chariot in the army.

Zhao Heng was somewhat agreeable.

Many people are silent, yes, the chariot is recorded in the Spring and Autumn Period. For what is it now, it is gone. Only a few ministers were against it, and they couldn't say why.

Song Jiu had no choice but to explain, the chariot came in handy in the Spring and Autumn Period, one is the gentleman's war, unlike now, in order to win the war, all kinds of tactics are used to the extreme, and the other is mainly aimed at the infantry, such as the Zhao State did not use the chariot when fighting with the Hu people, but changed the Hu suit. Learn to ride. In the Han Dynasty, the cavalry invented the horse pedal, which allowed the cavalry to make more flexible movements on the horse. The speed is inferior to that of a simple cavalry, and the cost is higher than that of a cavalry. Flexibility was not enough, so the tank was eliminated.

When he mentioned this, Zhang Qixian suddenly remembered something. That is, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, Fang Guan, seems to have used a chariot against the rebels in Guanzhong, and the battle was a fiasco. Forty thousand soldiers died tragically.

So Zhao Heng stopped mentioning the chariot.

Otherwise, a catastrophe befell the Song Dynasty.

So Song Jiu quickened his pace.

First, one thing was proposed.

The wind blew and captured Youzhou. Then the city of Youzhou was destroyed. The Song dynasty also paid a heavy price, spending countless sums of money and silk, and one of its most important allies was completely destroyed. But the harvest was also very large, and many nobles were captured from Youzhou, and Song Jiu sent them to the pit one by one to mine.

But Zhao Heng was soft-hearted, and after he succeeded to the throne, he issued an edict to release these people, and rewarded some idle officials and raised them in the capital. Among them are some relatives of the Henderjang family.

Why raise these people?

Song Jiu was always not very happy when he saw them.

Therefore, he simply proposed to exchange them for the people taken captive by Xiao Yanyan in the south, and then show weakness to Xiao Yanyan and negotiate peace.

Tian Xi went to Liao as an envoy, and it was okay to change people, especially Han Derang's clansmen, Xiao Yanyan has always expressed concern. But it is not possible to negotiate peace, yes, you must hand over the territory of Feihu Pass, Lingqiu County and Bauhinia Pass, Biguan and Shenwu City.

This is a bit difficult to say, the partial pass and Shenwu City Shi Jingtang were not ceded to the Liao State, and were owned by the Northern Han Dynasty. However, with the repeated invasions of the Song Dynasty and the rescue of the Liao State, this area was gradually swallowed up. In history, the Song Dynasty has not taken it back.

As for Bauhinia Ridge and Feihu Pass, Lingqiu County was ceded to the Liao State, but Yizhou was later taken by Chai Rong. However, Yizhou is isolated in the north of Yishui, and the Song Dynasty occupies most of the plains, and it cannot be defended. Therefore, after the wind blew, Song Jiu still proposed to decisively abandon Yizhou, Jintaitun and other places, but in turn, occupy the highland of Bauhinia Ridge and build Zijing Pass.

Xiao Yanyan went south last year, wanting to take back the Bauhinia Pass, at that time Yelu Xianzhen was not dead, sent someone to investigate, the Song Dynasty was stationed in the Bauhinia Pass is Wei Neng, the whole army is under martial law, military discipline is strict, and its rear is the Flying Fox River Valley, although it is not wide, you can grow crops, raise cattle, horses and sheep, enough to ensure the supply of the garrison. In addition, the terrain of Bauhinia Pass is treacherous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Yelu is afraid of accidents, so he suggests that Xiao Yanyan cancel the attack.

This insider Tian Xi doesn't know the way, but he knows the importance of the Bauhinia Pass, if the Bauhinia Pass is lost, the Flying Fox Pass may not be able to be protected, and the Flying Fox Pass is lost, then the Hedong and Hebei fronts are equivalent to being divided into two by Taihang Mountain, each fighting for itself.

The same is true for Biguan and Shenwu City, once lost, it will be difficult to keep the newly established Shengzhou.

did not agree, and then Tian Xi came back, and the two sides exchanged prisoners, and exchanged thousands of people back. But there are still many people who have not been replaced, so Xiao Yanyan was sent to the Shangjing area of Zhongjing and became a slave of various tribes.

Of course, the result of this mission was to once again make tens of millions of Song people feel humiliated.

The first emperor asked for peace, asked for it twice, didn't agree, had to fight, the new emperor still didn't agree, and put forward a reason that people couldn't agree, or fight, is the Song people really so weak?

The anger of the people, as well as the weakness of Yanchen's impeachment of Song Jiu, Song Jiu didn't care too much, at least his goal was achieved, and the peace faction kept their mouths shut from then on.

Then I did the second thing.

Work with Wang Qinruo to improve the commercial tax.

Song Jiu in Suzhou. I heard many businessmen complaining that the commercial tax rate was too high. In fact, Song Jiu has already reformed the commercial tax law once, for example, it used to be taxed almost every time he passed through a state. Now it has been changed to calculate the tax all the way to the tax, so that the merchant is much less exploitative.

However, it is still very high, for example, a trip from Suzhou to Beijing, Liangzhejiang Road, Huainan East Road, Jingdong Road, Jingxi Road, plus 2% of the residential tax, the tax rate has almost reached 14%. This is still close, if it is from Jinghu South Road, or Liangguang, Bashu to transport goods to the capital. The tax rate will be doubled.

Therefore, Song Jiu made the second commercial tax reform.

The tax continues to increase on a road-by-road basis, and the tax shall not be calculated within the state.

The tax rate has been lowered to 2 percent.

In the case of large-scale transactions, the value of goods exceeding 1,000 yen will be reduced to 1.5 percent, and if the value of goods exceeds 50,000 yuan, it will be reduced to 1 percent. Although the tax rate has become very low, it is the big businessmen who can evade the tax.

The imperial court uniformly printed tax stamps, which were used as vouchers. When the goods arrive on the other side, they must take all the living taxes to the tax stamps, give way to the place of transaction for inspection, and hand over the tax stamps. Only after accounting to the imperial court can you trade, otherwise it doesn't matter whether the buyer and the seller are the buyer and the seller. They must be severely punished without loans, and all goods will be confiscated if they are light. and fined him more than five times the price, and exiled in the heavier cases.

In order to prevent extortion by the officials. The inventory time of dry goods shall not exceed half a day, and the inventory time of fresh goods shall not exceed half an hour. If there is a conflict between the two parties over the value of the goods, the dry goods shall be subject to the proportional amount of the commercial tax from each category of the merchant's goods, plus the storage cost of 2/1000, and the government shall deal with the goods that are not taken within one month. If there is indeed a behavior of the officials, the merchant can complain to the government, and he will also be severely punished. If the powerful or big businessman is vexatious, then it is equivalent to the punishment of tax evasion, and the person in charge will be punished with a cane on the spot, and the heavy one will be exiled.

and certain provisions,

In fact, it is to lower the tax rate so that small and medium-sized businessmen can have a glimmer of life, and then to order the powerful and large businessmen to pay taxes, and the most important thing is to prevent the officials from extorting and committing crimes.

When it was first implemented, it caused a lot of trouble, the big merchants continued to evade taxes, the officials continued to extort, and even found fake tax stamps. However, when he was severely punished, he was opposed by many scholars, saying that the gentleman should not speak for profit.

Song Jiu said rudely: "Don't say it, right, okay, from today onwards, stop paying official salaries, do you disagree, or reduce the salary to the level of the Tang Dynasty, do you disagree?" ”

After more than two years of trouble, it gradually calmed down, and the commercial tax revenue began to decrease rapidly, and it was not until the third year that it gradually flattened.

However, this reform has greatly prospered the development of commerce.

Moreover, Song Jiu's reform also has a very good background, that is, the continuous invasion of the Liao State has brought a sense of crisis to the whole country.

Winter has arrived, which means another good time for invasion.

After hearing the news that the Liao army was heading south, Li Jixuan, Yang Yanzhao, Yang Si and the great eunuch Qin Han and others quickly discussed in the military city.

The main force was led by Qin Han and Li Jixuan, 30,000 Song soldiers, and all cavalry, standing in formation with their backs to the broken military city, preparing to fight head-on with the Liao army. Yang Si and Yang Yanzhao led 6,000 cavalry to the Yangshan area in Xishan, preparing to outflank the Liao army's rear route. As a pioneer officer, Zhang Bin first ambushed the Liao army at the mouth of the Great Wall on the edge of Yangshan, and covered the ambush of Eryang by the way. Wang Xian gathered a large army in the rear, ready to support, or expand the results of the battle.

In mid-October, the vanguard of the Liao State who invaded the south set foot on the Song Realm, but the drizzle and muddy road made the vanguard general Yelu Longqing, the crown prince of the Liao State, frown.

Why doesn't it snow, but it rains?

First of all, the bowstring of the Liao army is leathetic, and it is unusable after being soaked in rain, and the Liao army that cannot use the bow and arrow will undoubtedly be greatly weakened in combat effectiveness.

But at this time, the Liao army saw that the Song Dynasty was weak and carried away, knowing that the rain in Ludao was not good, Yelu Longqing continued to order the march.

Maybe he thinks that Fan Yanzhao, the number one general in Hebei in the Song Dynasty, has just died of illness.

But he forgot about them, and the two brave generals of the Liao State also died. But on the side of the Song Dynasty, Li Jixuan, Jing Si, Wei Neng, Yang Si, Yang Yanzhao, Tian Min, Zhang Ning, Qin Han and others were becoming more and more mature, and there was still a tiger hidden in the snow on the Chenzhou side.

In terms of generals, Liao is already at a disadvantage.

In the cold autumn rain, the battle of Suicheng began. (To be continued......)