After watching it for more than an hour, Wanyan Muhan didn't say a word and led everyone back to Baisha Town.

For a few days in a row, Wanyan Sticky Han led thousands of personal guards to circle around the periphery of Bianliang City in Kaifeng Prefecture, and I don't know how many circles they have made, not only can they not find flaws, but they can't even find the dead corners of the defense.

The entire Bianliang City of Kaifeng Prefecture and the surrounding barracks, whether in terms of observation and observation, defensive buffer, configuration of troops and arrangement of defensive equipment, etc., are almost perfect.

Of course, this Pingrong is completely large, but the large array formulated by Zhao Kuangyi, Taizong of the Song Dynasty, collected the wisdom of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, and ranked first among the many formations compiled by the Song Dynasty, and it was the first formation of the Song Dynasty.

From a purely defensive point of view, this large array can be called invincible.

In the end, Wanyan Muhan still couldn't make up his mind to attack, so he could only withdraw his troops and leave Bianliang City like Wanyan Wushu.

Jin Bing is also a human being, and he is also flesh and blood, and he can't afford to fight the behemoth in front of him, which is mainly composed of iron and wood.

It's just that Wanyan Sticky Han did not retreat and return to Jinguo, but turned to attack Luoyang City in Xijing.

Wanyan Muhan believed that the hedgehog shell of Bianliang City would not last long, because the cost was astronomical. Wars are sometimes fought not by force, but by economy.

However, when Yan Muhan retreated, he still suffered a small loss, and was attacked by Yue Fei in the back, losing thousands of people.

History of the Song Dynasty. The Biography of Zong Ze recorded: "It is to select thousands of elites to bypass behind enemy lines and lurk their way back." Jin Renfang fought with Yan, ambushed the troops, and attacked them front and back. The golden man was defeated. ”

The good news of Bianliang City in Kaifeng Prefecture. It soon spread to the small court of Yingtianfu in Nanjing.

Gaozong Zhao Gou and the ministers can certainly breathe a sigh of relief. Those savage and terrible golden soldiers finally retreated.

But for Prime Minister Li Gang, the current situation is more of an opportunity.

I don't know when the road began, there is a popular saying in the market: "The golden soldiers are invincible." ”

In other words, as long as the cavalry of the Jin people reached a certain size, the Song army would be out of line.

However, now two large-scale dispatches of Jin soldiers in a row have been repelled by Zong Ze one by one, and it is still when Zong Ze has not received any help from the imperial court.

Now that Zong Ze can defeat Jin Bing. Logically speaking, it became feasible to send troops to attack the Jin State and welcome back the two emperors of Huizong and Qinzong.

As a result, the reorganization of armaments has become the main focus of Prime Minister Li Gang's work.

Master Li Gang's armament work is very large and complicated, and in a nutshell, it is actually three tricks: recruiting troops, buying horses, raising funds from the people, and preparing military salaries.

History of the Song Dynasty. It is recorded in the Biography of Li Gang: He also built warships, recruited naval troops, and consulted the military ministers of Zhulu who could be appointed for backup. There are three more sparse measures: one is to recruit soldiers, the second is to buy horses, and the third is to recruit people to contribute money to help the soldiers

Among Li Gang's three moves, recruiting troops and horses is easy to understand. But why do you need to raise funds from the private sector?

The reason is that Emperor Gaozong was too poor. Poor beyond the imagination of most people.

Zhao Gou left Bianliang City alone, carrying limited property on his body, and he was absolutely self-made.

Zhao Gou's first income was that Yin Zongze, the Cizhou Governor at that time, donated all the local treasury silver.

Zhao Gou's second income was the treasury silver donated by Yin Wang Boyan, the Xiangzhou Governor.

Zhao Gou's third income was the property confiscated after the dismissal of the Tianxia Shenxiao Palace. This is a large amount of money, which slightly reduces Zhao Gou's financial burden.

After that, it is the tax money paid by the various local state capitals.

However, now that the army is in chaos, the Jin soldiers may come to the city at any time, and the small court of Gaozong Zhao is not enough to convince the public in terms of prestige and strength. In this way, it is fortunate that the local state governments do not follow the trend and rebel, so how can they collect enough taxes and silver?

Gaozong Zhao's financial difficulties were not even enough to support the daily expenses of the small court of Yingtianfu

In desperation, in order to open up revenue and reduce expenditure, Gaozong Zhao Gou was forced to adopt methods such as layoffs, salary cuts, and disguised apportionment, which would lose people's popularity.

History of the Song Dynasty. There is such a description in Gaozong's Benji: "Strike Kaifeng, Zhuzhou, military, and government officials Cao Pengguan." The state and military sentences are one of the two members. The power is reduced and the execution is given one of the three. Provincial Zhulu lifts the Changping Division, the two Zhejiang, and the Fujian Lifting City Bo Division. ”

One of the two is large-scale layoffs; One of the three is a large salary cut; The Shohei Division is responsible for the taxation of domestic trade, and the Shohei Division is responsible for the taxation of overseas trade.

Our Emperor Gaozong, how miserable!

Under such circumstances, Prime Minister Li Gang, who had just been deducted one-third of his salary, did not dare to reach out to the emperor to ask for money, so he had to propose a method of raising funds from the people

Li Gang's twists and turns aroused the opposition of many people in the small court of Yingtianfu, among which the opinion of Song Qiyu, the counselor, was the most representative.

History of the Song Dynasty. The Biography of Li Gang has the following records:

Song Qi, the counselor, laughed when he heard it, and said that Zhang Jun, a member of the Yu Department, said: "Prime Minister Li Cheng has three discussions, and none of them are feasible." Jun asked, Qi Yue said: "The people's wealth cannot be exhausted; Horses from the northwest are not available, and horses from the southeast are not available; As for the number of soldiers, if the county increases by 2,000, it will cost tens of millions per year, and the fee will be released? ”

This is a conversation between Song Qiyu and Zhang Jun, a member of the Yu department. And Song Qiyue's opinion can be understood like this:

If all the property of the common people is looted, and the common people have no way to live, will it not force them to rebel? If it can't be found, how can the local officials explain to the court?

Speaking of buying horses, the war horses in the northwest region will not be sold to us by the Tangut people, and the horses in the southeast will only plow the fields and will not be useful on the battlefield. Therefore, Li Gang's recital sounds good, but it really can't stand scrutiny.

Another is recruitment, if each state and county adds 2,000 soldiers, then the annual cost will increase by tens of millions of dollars, where do these expenses come from?

Now that the foundation of the imperial court is not stable, the vassals in various places wantonly withhold the money, silver and grain transported to Yingtianfu, and before this problem is solved, the vain discussion of sending troops will only increase the instability of the imperial court

Speaking from the heart, Song Qiyu's statement is not unreasonable, and this is also the practice of many people who sympathize with and understand Gaozong Zhao Gou in later generations.

Their views, including Song Qiyue, can be summed up in one sentence: "The situation is stronger than people".

Those who hold this view often fail to see a picture: where the military spending of the golden soldiers comes from.

History records clearly that the Jin soldiers did not have any funds at the beginning; The process of the rise of the Jin soldiers is a process of raising war with war.

If you don't have funds, you occupy the territory and collect the taxes, so you naturally have funds.

The question of having money before going to war, or fighting first and then getting funding, is the same as the problem of chicken and egg...... (To be continued......)

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