"Yi'an, the old man asked you to really want to talk to you about national politics seriously." Zhao Pu said weakly.

If it was said half a year ago that Zhao Pu had good intentions for Song Jiu, I'm afraid his two sons wouldn't believe it.

But the great drought and Halley's Comet made Zhao Pu miserable. Originally, the drought was getting worse, the Liao State invaded repeatedly, and Halley's Comet dragged out its long tail.

The whole country was terrified.

It still continues to revolve around the earth, and it will take several days before it leaves the earth's orbit and disappears into the sky.

Therefore, the huge demon star hanging above his head, Zhao Kuangyi was afraid, avoided the main hall, reduced the regular meal, and said to the prime ministers: "The long star shows change, it is the loss of the heavenly police and the king, when it is advisable to fear the province, the evil filial piety and martial arts will be persuaded by drinking, so crazy, what to do if you don't die, today's non-current politics are lost, and the material situation is suppressed?" What is the crime of the people, if they are responsible, punish me, I dare not be afraid of derogation, in order to answer the heavens for wrongdoing! ”

At that time, the Battle of Xuhe had just begun.

If he loses, maybe Song Jiu will be sad. However, the Battle of Xuhe was not only won, but also because Song Jiu instructed Li Jilong to give him the right to mobilize the strength of any army in Hebei during the war, resulting in this battle being even more brilliant than the victory of Tanghe.

Then it has nothing to do with Song Jiu, and it has nothing to do with militarily.

After Song Jiuyi tossed, all the people celebrated, and even Zhao Kuangyi simply went to Hezhou to watch a juju competition, which attracted hundreds of people to watch and cheer, is it still Zhao Kuangyi's responsibility?

Zhao Pu said again: "In this way, how about the old man and Yi An meet in Changqing Building?" ”

Changqing Building is also the top store in the capital, just south of the Imperial City, on the right side of the Royal Street. Five temples and three prisons across the street.

Song Jiu wanted to refuse, but they were left and right. They are the two most important bigwigs in the East and West Mansions, so they are scattered or upper. They were all at the forefront, and they stood together at this stop. Of course, no one dared to come forward to listen to what they had to say, but ninety percent of the people would have some curiosity in their hearts.

Song Jiu thought about it and said, "Okay." ”

From the perspective of justice, Zhao Pu is definitely inferior to Xiao He and Fang Du and others, although the founding people have gone from chaos to governance, and people are at peace. The population base is decreasing, arable land and other resources are not strained, many powerful people perished in the process of succession, and the disparity between the rich and the poor is not serious.

But it can't be said that Zhao Pu is Li Linfu and the like.

However, from Song Jiu's point of view, he can't wait for this person to die early and be reincarnated.

He has lived almost in the shadow of this old man for half his life.

It seemed that Zhao Pu was very pitiful now, but Song Jiu didn't have any sympathy in his heart.

Walking towards the Privy Council, Wang Xian asked, "Yi'an, what did Zhao Pu say?" ”

Wang Xian is a soy sauce product in Xifu. But he is an authentic general.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin suppressed the generals and was still a little measured, but Zhao Kuangyi changed his efforts in the Zhao Kuangyi Dynasty, but Zhao Kuangyi cannot be blamed. At that time, most of the generals were Zhao Kuangyin's henchmen, look at the five generations, they had military power in their hands. There is political power. Regime comes out of the barrel of a real gun. Therefore, Zhao Kuangyi is not at ease, and he does not have that self-confidence.

The Buddha didn't know if there was cause and effect in the path. But everything has a cause and effect!

At that time, Song Jiuwei said.

After the defeat of Gaolianghe, Zhao Kuangyi's self-confidence became even worse. Military power is tightened.

It should be said that it has little to do with Zhao Pu, but after Zhao Pu got up for the second time, it played an aggravating role in Zhao Kuangyi's various measures.

That is, one of these two people is the wind, the other is the fire, the wind urges the fire, the fire blows the wind, and the more it burns, the bigger it becomes. The root cause is Zhao Pu's head, Zhao Kuangyi has done it more thoroughly, and Zhao Pu has consolidated this more thoroughly.

However, under Song Jiu's careful operation, the soldiers were first ruralized, the tuntian system in disguise, the bereavement rewards of high treatment, the giving of certain freedom to the border generals, and the construction of more border forts. Except for the latter ones, which are not very good, the others are doing well.

In particular, as long as the cost of raising soldiers is not started, then the current annual military expenditure may be reduced by more than half compared with history, but the income of soldiers, on the contrary, will increase by a large margin. At least now there are military prostitutes in the barracks, but there are very few who want to find soldiers' wives to be military prostitutes, but it also has a negative effect, that is, the cost of prostitutes is increasing......

This is the earliest thing Song Jiu did, after all, Zhao Kuangyi had only been on the throne for a short time at that time, and the system was indeed very bad.

Coming back from Liaodong, the main thing is to run the northwest, this is the most controversial thing that Song Jiu has done, and in fact, its significance is even more extraordinary, no less than taking back Yanyun, but who knows what to do? The other is to deepen the reform of the military system in the early days of the Taiping Rejuvenation and observe the military talents of the generals.

After returning from the battle of Qigou Pass, Song Jiu's movements were still very small, either recruiting Fanqiang cavalry in the northwest and training tens of thousands of light cavalry, not the heavy cavalry of the Jingsai army, and even trying to let Yang Qiong train these tens of thousands of light cavalry according to the wolf pack tactics of Yuanmeng in his memory.

The advantages and disadvantages of light cavalry and heavy cavalry were shown in Li Jilong's two battles, and the lethality of the Jingsai army's heavy cavalry almost stunned everyone, but its speed was indeed a problem.

Moreover, it is difficult to breed Hetao horses in Hebei.

But it can't be called a big movement.

Until this time, it was not enough to improve the fort system. Mainly the first two.

The first is the staff system, the original military staff planning power is basically the participation of the prime ministers of the east and west provinces, and even if it were not for the two battles of Song Jiu played a key role, without Zhao Pu coming back, let Li Fang take away the power of the Xifu, but now it is clearly regulated and handed over to the hands of the old generals to deal with, that is, let the real insiders make decisions, the emperor only has the right to make decisions and the right to participate, and the east mansion is good to take advantage of the coolness. That's it, the capital only gives a rough plan, and the details are completely handed over to the front-line generals to deal with, and even the emperor's formation map is gone, so the power in the hands of the generals will gradually increase.

The second is the temporary granting of power, just like Li Jilong's temporary power to calm down the deployment of the thirteen states of Bao Mo Cangying, Xiongxiong, Qi Shen, and Zhao Thirteen Prefectures, in fact, he is also further improving the treatment of military generals. In fact, even the rights of Xifu have gradually improved, otherwise Xifu was once just an empty shelf.

The third is to hype up and give honor to the soldiers.

This almost made Zhao Pu formulate the system of neutral imperial control and the suppression of military generals. Almost completely slashed.

Wang Xian is a martial artist, not a civil official. So it's a pleasure.

But he was also worried about Zhao Pu.

"Prince, don't be afraid. Demon star......"

Thinking of the long-tailed comet, Wang Xian was also happy.

The demon star is good, the drought is good, and it has a fart relationship with Xifu!

Let Dongfu mess around.

"Yi An, if His Majesty agrees, then who will enter the General Staff Division?"

This is not very easy to do, the founding general Shi Shouxin they can't be counted, after the founding of the Song Dynasty, they almost did not participate in the war, among the veterans are Cao Bin, Pan Mei, Murong Yanzhao, Tian Chongjin, Cui Yanjin, Liu Tingrang, Li Jilong, Cui Han, Mi Xin, Yuan Jizhong and others. Most of them died, including Cui Yanjin, who wanted to use that Qi Ce to correct his name, but as long as Bazhou was idle, he was depressed and died last year. The rest of the people, can Yuan Jizhong, Pan Mei, and Cui Han be transferred back?

or second-class veterans, such as Li Jinqing, Yang Mei, He Jiyun, Li Hanchao, Guo Jin, Niu Sijin, Wang Zan, Zhang Baoxu, Lu Huaizhong, Wang Jixun, Ding Deyu, Zhang Yantong, Liang Zhen, Shi Qi, Tian Qinzuo, etc., also most of them died.

If this candidate had been picked ten years ago. But ten years later, it became a problem.

Song Jiu smiled slightly and said, "Prince, you are wrong, this position is part-time. If there is something to discuss, if there is nothing to do, it is vacant, so it is easier to choose a candidate. Like Cao Bingong, Mi Xingong. Tian Chongjin, Liu Tinghan and others. In these two wars, some generals emerged one after another. With a little sharpening of the imperial court, the veterans who can gradually stay on the front line can let these veteran generals leave the fortress and return to the capital to enjoy a good old age. Then we can successively fill up the staff division candidates. ”

"yes......"

"Prince, don't think too much, if it weren't for His Majesty's consent, deliberately training young and middle-aged generals on the front line, if this continues, the country's heavy generals will be lost. People have no long-term worries, but they must have near-term concerns. In fact, in Song Jiu's heart, there are still several candidates, such as Cui Han, An Shouzhong and others, who can be transferred back to the capital one after another.

However, it was the area east of the river, and Song Jiu was very sad.

The father-in-law can't get up, so it's better to come back to support the elderly, but who can replace him? Or where to find another Li Jilong?

However, this restructuring came at the right time, otherwise the Song Dynasty would be ashamed of future generations, and in fact, later generations were also doing the same work to suppress literature and dethrone the military, and the system of guarding the inside and the outside was about to take shape.

That's more terrible than the general's congregation.

What guards the inside and outside, to put it bluntly, the civil war insider, the outside war layman, or a little more white, fierce on the inside, weak on the outside; The common people are not people, they are pigs and dogs, and foreigners are not ambitious Yidi, but uncles and ancestors. Then fight in the nest, it's so powerful, and then worship the foreign, it's so powerful......

After getting off duty, Song Jiu came to Changqing Tower.

The two asked for a private room and sat down separately.

Zhao Song Hui, in fact, since Zhao Pu and Song Jiu walked into Changqing Tower, I don't know how many pairs of eyes Lu Dao had stared at Changqing Tower, and even Xiao Huangmen hurriedly entered the palace to report to Zhao Kuangyi after hearing it.

The two of them arrived and made the chickens and dogs jump up and down the Changqing Tower.

However, where did the two of them care about this, Zhao Pu waved his hand to the director of Changqing Building: "Serve a few dishes at will, let's go down." ”

Then send down the uncles who have come to serve.

Zhao Pu looked at Song Jiu with some complexity at first, in terms of credit, he was the founder of the country, and he must be above this. However, in the Zhao Kuangyi Dynasty, the credit for this son is above himself. I didn't expect that the boy who didn't know the importance of the past would grow to such a point.

Putting aside the distracting thoughts in his heart, Zhao Pu said: "Yi'an, you have the intention of forging ahead, the old man agrees very much, but the country is not inside or outside at all, show you something." ”

He pulled out a booklet from his bosom.

Song Jiu opened it and saw that it was south of the Yellow River and north of the Yangtze River, that is, the statistics of the number of households in the territory that existed at the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty. It turned out that the large area of the Yellow River in Hebei was also owned by the Song Dynasty, but because of the war, Zhao Pu deliberately did not count it. Then there is a piece of data, that is, the number of households that have migrated over the years, including some Hebei people who have migrated north of the Hutuo River, some people who have been captured or brought over from Yanyun in Liao, and people who have forcibly migrated from the northwest to clean up, which are mostly scattered in Hedong, southern Hebei and western Beijing. These people also deduct them, so you can see the speed of the increase in the number of households.

Then there is a statistical data on the number of households in Lingnan.

When the Lingnan Song Dynasty received it, there were only 170,000 households, and now it has reached 380,000 households, excluding the people who moved from Jiaozhi by Song Jiu and Pan Mei, and the number of households has also doubled.

However, the original territory of the Song Dynasty was operated for a longer period of time, and the growth rate was only 30 percent, which was not enough.

This illustrates the devastation that war has done to the people.

Song Jiu sneered: "If there is no demon star, if there is no drought, I am afraid that Zhao Gong will use this to target Song." (To be continued......)