In fact, Zhao Kuangyi said just now that there was a subtext, why would this be the case, could it be that I have a bad character and God will punish me.

Look at the past two years, so many disasters, but when I suppressed the third child again, can you not misunderstand. So Zhao Pu, you have to carry it for me.

Zhao Pu is more cunning, there is a big water when Yao, there is a big drought when he is in the soup, and you and me.

Zhao Kuangyi is going to fall. There have been so many disasters, Lao Tzu is not at ease in the palace, can you still deal with it calmly and let Lao Tzu wait patiently, this is the truth?

It's a pity that Song Jiu didn't hear it.

So Zhao Kuangyi forced Song Jiu again, and he was not very happy about the facts, you love the people, do you really don't care about fighting Zhao Pu for the sake of fighting Zhao Pu.

At this time, he forgot the mood when Zhao Pu suppressed him.

But he misunderstood Song Jiu, Song Jiu was really thinking of a way, and he didn't pay attention to their words for a while. He also explained in detail these kinds of auxiliary embankments.

Then he said: "What Zhao Fu said is not right, if the north and south embankments are built in the middle of the river, it is also unrealistic with the current national strength. But the water division between the Wang Mang River and the Ling River is also ineffective, the reason is very simple, not to mention the huge use, the lower reaches of the Yellow River are mostly mountainous, only the Meng Luhua is low-lying on both sides, and the water flows to the low place, so it is mostly in this section of the river or forcibly rushed to the south or forcibly rushed to the north, and the diversion is too far away from this section of the river, and the water diversion effect is not good. ”

"That's what Qing said."

But Zhao Fu also has some ideas that can be implemented, but to change them, there is no need to store water from a remote embankment, let alone use it to divide water in the east, and you can find some low-lying places in the two rivers. It is best to be more saline-alkali zone, the rear is built separately Dayue embankment, the water potential is not big in the flood season, the people cultivate, if the water potential is large, the people will be evacuated in time, the water will be discharged when the water potential subsides, and the sedimented silt can improve the soil and make up for the loss of the people. ”

Here's a way.

But it's also troublesome. That's home. When the time comes to release the floodwater, how many people are willing to leave their homes?

However, when it is absolutely necessary, it is at least better than the current rolling river east flowing all the way to Pengzhou. And you can usually do some subsidies, such as tax exemption and so on. It depends on what the court thinks. What did local officials think.

Song Jiu said again: "There are still some ways now. After all, it's not too densely populated. It's just not necessarily troublesome. Therefore, if you want to have fewer accidents in 50 years, there is only one way, to build an auxiliary embankment. It does not occupy people's land. There is no need to relocate the people, and if it is reasonable, it will also play some role in restraining the water and washing the sand. ”

"It's more expensive to build an embankment outside the river." Song Qi said.

"Your Majesty, the minister believes that in the future, the prime minister of the western province must have a period of military experience to be competent, and the prime minister of the eastern province must have served as the governor of three prefectures to be competent, otherwise it is easy to work behind closed doors and delay state affairs."

Song Jiu sneered.

Although Song Qi is very old, he used to be a deputy in the past, but because he was kind to Zhao Pu when he was the judge of Kaifeng, Zhao Kuangyi was angry out of Longzhou, and he no longer had the experience of other local officials.

The fact is not as complicated as Song Qi thought, these external auxiliary dikes are mainly to reduce the water pressure under the main dike, so that the mud can be taken from the river when the water is small, or the mud can be taken from the embankment, and the shoal can be built, and then the embankment can be built on the shoal. If you really built an embankment in the river, do you have the ability to do so now?

"It also requires a lot of labor and money." Wang Ming said honestly.

"Well, but it doesn't have to be so urgent, it can measure the national strength, and it doesn't require overnight work, but in my opinion, it is best to build this year, and first repair some dangerous river sections."

"Why?"

"Your Majesty uses forbidden soldiers to plug the shortage, no need for the people, now the water is vast, the homeland is submerged, the people's hearts are panicked all day long, if it is not organized well, the people are resentful, and I am afraid of change. But after a while, the river will recede. Once the river recedes, people's hearts will gradually settle down. However, people in so many areas have been displaced, and even in Luoyang, Shaanzhou, Hebei Province, many people have no harvest due to waterlogging. Can the imperial court not give relief? That's where the cash can be. Therefore, when the water subsides after autumn, the construction cost is the lowest. ”

Everyone was looking down and thinking about the feasibility of Song Jiu's strategy.

Zhao Fu's mouth opened, and he didn't speak.

As soon as the connoisseur makes a move, he will know if there is one.

I don't talk about how much money I use, but as soon as I heard it, I knew that Song Jiu's method was many times better than him.

Song Qi was not convinced, so he said: "Your Majesty, disasters are repeated, the treasury is tight, if you start construction again, please stop the work in the northwest." And the minister thought that it was only to deal with first-class thieves, and the country spent a lot of money, which was not worth it. ”

On the surface, this sentence makes sense.

Isn't Li Jiqian just a rogue, what kind of climate can he become?

Song Jiu made a big fuss.

Now choose one of the two, one is the river worker, the other is the northwest, and the river worker is the most important.

The truth is that this sentence is vicious.

If the northwest stops, it means that the imperial court acquiesces that Song Jiu is a joke, but how much money has been spent for this joke.

If it doesn't stop, it is because of the shortage of funds caused by the northwest, so that the river construction cannot be started, and Song Jiu does not know the general situation.

Song Jiu's eyes finally glowed with a cold light.

Grandma, I have a grudge against you Song Qi?

But Song Qi can't help it, if Song Jiu is allowed to shine again, he faintly feels very bad. As soon as Zhao Pu falls, can Song Jiu still tolerate him? This is forced to fight Song Jiu.

Song Jiu turned his head and called a eunuch and asked him to go to Xifu to bring the thing that Wang Ming had given him.

Let's speak with facts.

After a while, Xiao Huangmen took the account book from the West Mansion, and Song Jiu handed it to Zhao Kuangyi: "Your Majesty, please take a look." ”

This is Wang Ming's gift to him.

Xifu didn't ask the cashier, but under the perfection of Song Jiu, the account books gradually became very clear. Therefore, from the three divisions, we can get the national military expenditure for three years of Taiping Xingguo.

When Song Jiu was looking through the account books, Wang Ming asked the little official to count the state military expenses cashier from June last year to June this year and give it to Song Jiu. However, what Song Jiu is in his hands now is the "updated version", which is the military expenditure from August last year to August this year.

This military expenditure includes soldiers' salaries, rewards, pensions, and weapons expenses. and other military-related expenses such as fort building on the front line, as well as aid costs to Liaodong.

It seems that Song Jiu spent a lot of money this year, building forts and roads in the northwest, part of the subsidies to Fengzhou, aid to Liaodong, and an increase of 30,000 township soldiers, and some new forts in Hedong, Hebei......

However, after the statistics of the three divisions, the fact is that compared with the military expenditure of the Taiping Rejuvenation in the three years, not only did not increase, but on the contrary, it also decreased by more than 500,000 yuan.

Zhao Kuangyi was stunned when he saw it.

But then I thought about it. The three years of Taiping rejuvenation of the country have a lot of military spending. Because of the preparation for the conquest of the Northern Han Dynasty and even the desire to recover Yanyun, the Song Dynasty expanded its army to more than 300,000.

Now the number of soldiers on the front line has increased, and the rewards and pensions have increased. But in fact, there has been no major fighting on the front line since last summer. As a result, the reward and bereavement benefits are almost negligible. is to increase the spending of many superficials. But secretly, the cost of raising troops has dropped sharply.

Because of Song Jiu's adjustment, not only did seventy percent of the forbidden soldiers in the rear turn into rural garrisons, but the front line was also camping in a big way. Even pigs and sheep.

In many areas, the supply of troops is almost self-sufficient in the absence of a major war. Saving one stone of grain at the front may be equivalent to saving ten stone of food at the rear! Especially in the future, Song Renzong even paid a few cents in the rear, and a bucket of millet was transported to the front line, which was worth thousands of wen.

In history, Shiheng began to work in the northwest camp, but later because most of them were urban soldiers, how did the urban soldiers actually do a good job of farming? It was Song Jiu who sent the urban soldiers to the rural soldiers, especially the soldiers who were later conscripted, who were usually peasants and were accustomed to farming, so they went to the front camp and quickly gained merit.

It's also a vintage.

Song Jiu's method was an improved version of the Tang Dynasty's camps in Qinghai and other places.

But in the Tang Dynasty, it was very hard, there was no rotation, and there was not much subsidy. But this is the result of the economy, if it was like the Song Dynasty, the military expenditure may reach more than 100 million a year at its peak, then the Tang Dynasty would have been finished long ago.

It's not new, but the savings are staggering.

For this reason, Song Jiu was still constantly adjusting in Xifu to further reduce unnecessary military expenditures for the imperial court.

Therefore, it seems that Song Jiu has spent a lot of money in the past year, but he has not spent much.

Song Jiu didn't invite credit for offering it, he had too much credit, and he didn't have to invite credit to make Zhao Kuangyi disgusted. It's just that Song Jiu used it to illustrate a truth, there will be an error in this statistic, but there will be no difference of two million, and the military spending may not be less that year, but how much is the treasury surplus? How much is the surplus now? Not to mention disaster relief, the cost of plugging the shortage is to go to the inner treasury, and the disaster relief measures have not been fully implemented, if there is a surplus of the year, even if there is a catastrophe, the military expenditure is not overdrawn, it is enough to survive safely.

It's not that the West Mansion is using more money, but that something big has happened in the East Mansion.

Song Jiu handed it over and didn't say anything.

Northwest explained I don't know how many times, as for the river work, since Guo Zhen went down, Dongfu has become Zhao Pu's private residence, can he implement it?

Zhao Kuangyi sighed.

One mountain can't tolerate two tigers, why did you have so many years with Zhao Purong?

Seeing that it is time to choose.

So he said, "Let's go." ”

Chen Congxin said: "Your Majesty, the river works ......"

"Let's talk about it."

Song Jiu sighed in his heart, and he braved the heavy rain to watch along the Yellow River for two days, but it seemed that it was over.

Everyone retreated, Chen Congxin suddenly caught up from behind, and whispered in Song Jiu's ear: "Such a catastrophe, the prime minister is at fault, no, it has nothing to do with you, but the Dongfu is at fault." ”

Song Jiu stared at him and shook his head with a smile.

This person is Zhao Kuangyi's confidant and Zhao Pu's political enemy, but not his comrade-in-arms.

He also has bad intentions.

It stands to reason that there have been disasters in the past two years, especially such a catastrophe, with a little bit of skill, Zhao Pu is responsible, even if he talks about the principle of the weather, does it include his denial of the existence of gods? Celestial and human induction is still the mainstream of this era.

But I can't say it myself.

First, if you say it yourself, it will disgust Zhao Kuangyi.

The second is that if you think about it crookedly, for what is the disaster, those demon moths that Zhao Pu and Zhao Kuangyi did, but there is Zhao Pu's share and Zhao Kuangyi's share.

In fact, the people began to discuss, what would be the good end if they said it themselves?

But Song Jiu didn't know that Zhao Kuangyi began to force the palace, and only a few days later, Zhao Kuangyi called Zhao Pu to admonish: "I regard all the people as sons, and I remember the diligence of their cultivation, and the military state has used it, and I hate to get rid of it all." Therefore, the deadline for paying the two taxes in March was deliberately extended by one month, but the officials did not consider the decree of the court, and they were like wolves and tigers, and they beat the people as if they were commonplace. ”

Zhao Pu immediately went to write a cursive edict.

After the previous edict was written, Zhao Kuangyi called him again and scolded: "What are the disaster relief officials you sent doing, I heard that they all stay in the capital and do not leave, they don't go to the place, how can the people's tax reduction and exemption be implemented?" What should I do if the magistrate delays the payment of taxes? ”

Zhao Pu's head was sweating.

When the edict was issued, Zhao Kuangyi called Zhao Pu again and scolded: "Jinghu, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Huainan Prefectures provide money and silk every year, but what do these officials think, when they saw that the people were rich, they asked him to escort the money and grain into Beijing. They are all honest and foolish, and they have no royal skills, and the boatmen and boatmen are all stubborn people, how these high-ranking families are their opponents, and how many people have gone bankrupt because of this, which is really a human tragedy. ”

Zhao Pu was dumbfounded when he heard this.

According to the Song Dynasty service law, all households above the third class served as errand servants, and they were not allowed to be charged, so who would escort them?

But knowing that Zhao Kuangyi was picking thorns in the eggs, he had to write an edict vaguely, and the edict would send the officials directly from now on and stop disturbing the people. The tooth official is not a high-ranking household?

However, Zhao Kuangyi is also anxious, old man, you have to let me tell you the truth.

Therefore, he deliberately left all the ministers behind, and said in front of everyone: "State affairs can not be treated by big or small, there are interests and disadvantages, I have recently compared and seen that the rattan cutters cut off seven or eight tenths of each (referring to the tax vine and tribute vine transported to the capital to make furniture), but the rattan is only produced in the south, and it is not easy to transport it to the capital from seven or eight thousand miles away!" I also saw that the workshop made weapons, and only half of the iron was used. If only the part of the rattan that can be used is handed over, if the iron is made into weapons and then handed in, will not it reduce the labor of the people? The world has unlimited interests, but officials can't replace my longitude. This is a trivial matter, when there is something greater than this, you will think about it. ”

Outside the word, how did you become the prime minister?

Zhao Pu, don't you still understand?

Zhao Kuangyi was about to vomit blood, but when it came to this, Zhao Pu still refused to submit his resignation. (To be continued......)