With this finance, Song Jiu had confidence in his heart.

The first is the plague of the river and the two Zhejiang.

Song Jiu imposed a large-scale quarantine in Suzhou, as well as improved dietary habits, and the plague was gradually controlled, but it did not stop and was still spreading.

There is a doctor's prescription is more effective, although Song Jiu doubted, but there is better than nothing, so he allocated a sum of money to purchase a large number of herbs again, and quickly shipped them to Liangzhe. The plague made the Song Dynasty a little miserable, and the two Zhejiang gradually became the big tax collectors of the Song Dynasty, the drought and the plague, the tax of the two Zhejiang was miserable this year, even so, Song Jiu still exempted the two Zhejiang from all the two taxes for a year. There is no way, we have to let the people of Liangzhejiang quickly get out of the shadow of disasters and plagues, otherwise next year's harvest will still be affected.

Coupled with the lack of embankments in the Yellow River, the Bashu rebellion ......

No wonder Zhao Heng said that I was tired.

There are still tax-free areas, Bashu, and the prefectures and counties affected by the Yellow River, if there is actually no threat from Liao, such tax exemption from time to time is also a disguised return to the people, and the proportion of the two taxes in the national revenue is gradually decreasing. It's just that those officials may be very hard, and there is an important excuse for being greedy for ink.

But this year will give Chen Shu a bit of a headache, not only the tax exemption in these areas, but also the reduction of other income.

However, Song Jiu's various uses continued to increase.

Oppressed by the Liao State, the imperial court further transferred the people on the border of Hebei to the south, and then recruited Ding Zhuang into the forbidden army in Hebei, which had several conveniences, first of all, because of the policy of Song Jiu, a lot of arable land was moved out very early to let the forbidden soldiers tuntian, but these forbidden soldiers did not all stay in the Gyeonggi area, and most of them went to various places. As a result, a lot of arable land was rented to the common people for cultivation, which gave rise to a large number of disputes. With this expansion. The area of the tuntian field has become tight, and at least there will be no large-scale renting.

Tuntian is to reduce the country's supply. Increasing part of the income of the soldiers was not to make them big landlords.

Secondly, when a large number of Ding Zhuang entered the forbidden army, he moved out a lot of arable land to settle the people who had migrated from the north.

Ostensibly so......

In fact, this is an expansion of the army.

Oppressed by the Liao State, the number of forbidden soldiers is slowly increasing, but now the total number is only 3,780,000 soldiers and horses, and with this number of troops, it is still not enough to defeat the Liao State.

Therefore, Song Jiu has to look at the financial situation of the three divisions.

The expansion of the army means an increase in military spending.

The expansion lasted until June of the following year. Not only selected Ding Zhuang from the common people, but also selected some powerful and martial arts soldiers from the northern box soldiers to enter the ranks of the forbidden army, and then selected a part of the people from the disaster victims to supplement the box army.

There is no way to do this, the country still needs to do things.

It was not until June of the following year that the number of forbidden troops was expanded to a staggering 460,000. In fact, it includes more than 120,000 township soldiers of various forms, such as the township soldiers in the north, the township soldiers in the northwest, and the township soldiers in Bashu. Sichuan cavalry, native soldiers of Jinghu and Guangzhou, and township barbarian soldiers...... and more than 190,000 soldiers, the number of soldiers reached a staggering 770,000. At this time, the number of households in the country was only 6.8 million. Thanks to the increase in the number of households brought by Song Jiu, otherwise it would have been less.

As a result, some redundancy began to emerge.

However, compared to history, because the tuntian system has been implemented from the beginning. The income of soldiers has increased somewhat compared to history, and at the same time, the pressure on the country's supply has also been lightened.

But not only the number of soldiers increased. The cost of weapons and equipment is also increasing, which has also led to a rapid increase in military spending.

Some ministers objected to this. But what surprised them was that from the emperor to the ruler, no one listened.

Increasing the number of forbidden soldiers and improving armor weapons is only the first step.

At the beginning, the Beiwei Army was set up, led by Jing Si, Yang Yanzhao, Zhang Ning, and Yang Qiong, but the Beiwei Army also had to be rotated, and the Song Dynasty's strange system was the rotation system. So the Lord will be changing people almost non-stop. Now of the four back armies, only Yang Yanzhao's one has not been dispersed in Song Jiu's face, and although the others have not been dispersed, all the main generals have been replaced, and most of them are in rotation, which is actually equivalent to being scattered, and even the training is a little lax.

This time, Song Jiu picked it up again, but the main general was changed, and Tian Min led most of the troops to continue to train in the northwest.

Then Yang Qiong was transferred to the northwest again, and a special army was established, and 30,000 light cavalry were selected from the light cavalry to form the Xianping Army.

Use Zhao Hengnian's name as the name of the army!

Undoubtedly, this is to train the most powerful light cavalry class to make up for the lack of speed of the back army.

However, if you want to form combat effectiveness, there are still a few years to go, if what Song Jiu said will happen, then now you have to race against time, not only the strong training of the Xianping Army takes time, but also the newly recruited forbidden soldiers will also take several years to train.

The second is to allocate a sum of money for the front-line generals to set up scouts to inquire about the intelligence of the Liao State.

However, two people were mobilized.

The first is Cao Wei.

Cao Wei was not arranged to Hebei, but went to Weizhou.

This is a very important position, there is no big problem in Xiazhou for the time being, although Xiao Yanyan also became interested in there, but because the Song Dynasty used Nanhetao as a training place, there were always tens of thousands of troops piled up there, and most of them were cavalry, which formed an effective deterrent to the Xiazhou and Lingzhou regions.

Moreover, the imperial court's policy towards this area was not bad, and in a few years, the lives of most of the tribes were well improved.

But the situation in Weizhou is still very complicated, south of Weizhou is Qinzhou, whether Weizhou or Qinzhou, there are many Qiang people and Tubo people living in it, not to mention the Tubo people of the Liugu Department in Lanzhou and Liangzhou. In fact, the scope of Weizhou controlled by the Song Dynasty was only in the central and eastern regions.

The problem of the Tibetans is not big, they are scattered, and they have lost their sense of aggression in the past.

But there is one place, Lingzhou!

If you want to control the Lingzhou area, you must have a good road, one is to go from Gyeongju to the Yinchuan Plain, the second is to go from Yanzhou to the Yinchuan Plain, the third is to go from Weizhou to the Yinchuan Plain, and the fourth is to go from Lanzhou to the Yinchuan Plain.

This is the reason why the Song Dynasty finally lost Lingzhou in history.

Weizhou also opened up the road at that time, but there were not many garrisons, let alone Lanzhou, Li Jiqian controlled Yanzhou, so there was only one road left in Qingzhou to rescue, once it was controlled, Lingzhou became a place to fly.

If Weizhou and Lanzhou were all in the hands of the Song Dynasty at that time, would Li Jiqian get Lingzhou?

Only when the three prefectures of Qin, Weilan and Lan are effectively controlled, and the Yinchuan Plain and Shaanxi form a whole, will they not become a place of hanging.

Otherwise, Lingzhou is still in danger.

The Liao State had crusaded against the Western Xia, and most of them had to start from Datong and then arrive at the Nanhetao, which was the nearest road, otherwise it would be inconvenient for the transportation of logistics supplies. But if it is a force of less than 20,000 troops, then there will be many roads to reach Lingzhou, such as a detour from the north of Yinshan Mountain and directly to Helan Mountain, which will threaten Lingzhou. Or if the Divination Blockers are co-opted and advance into Juyanhai, then they can directly threaten all the Hexi regions of the Yinchuan Plain.

Therefore, let Cao Wei march into Weizhou, at least let all the Tubo tribes in the Weizhou area submit. Then the northwest will become a whole existence, and it can also be effectively defended and managed.

Again, Pei Ji was transferred from Lingzhou to Dingzhou to cooperate with Fan Yanzhao.

This pair is still not as good as the Pei Ji and Li Jilong combination back then, but Pei Ji's military ability is not bad, and he has stayed in Dingzhou for a long time, so he understands the situation better. Compared to other combinations, it's still very good.

Dingzhou is stable, then Hebei is stable!

This action is not small, Wang Xian's ability is limited, but the three prime ministers of Zhongshu, Song Jiu, Zhang Qixian and Xiang Minzhong, are relatively familiar with military affairs, and they continue to ask for help through the deliberations of the political hall, but there are no major mistakes. However, small mistakes still continued, which led to the impeachment of Yanchen from time to time.

And there is not a group of harmony in the book, Zhang Qixian is a bold man, Li Xin and Xiang Minzhong have quiet personalities, so they have never been very harmonious. It happened that at the court meeting in the winter of this year, Zhang Qixian's wine was so high that he almost fell on the main hall. Yushi impeached Zhang Qixian, Zhang Qixian had nothing to say, I could only say that I had a bit of a cold and drank Yuzhi, so I was drunk. Then he dismissed the prime minister as his own official.

Then Zhao Heng asked Lu Mengzheng if he could use it?

There is still no Kou Zhun's share.

It's not that Zhao Heng doesn't thank Kou Zhun, but in fact, Zhao Heng is a very nostalgic and grateful person.

The main thing is Kou Zhun himself.

He is now in Dengzhou, and the situation in Dengzhou is not very good, although it is on Jingxi Road, in fact, the entire number of states west of Jingxi Road has not developed in the Northern Song Dynasty.

But Kou Zhun lived the most luxurious and erosive life in the Great Song Dynasty in Dengzhou. He is also a good drinker, not only drinking, but also not drinking, and drinking while drinking is lustful. And because of his fame, countless literati and elegant guests came to visit, so the Dengzhou Mansion was singing and dancing all day long.

And Kou Zhun's favorite is the Tuoji Dance, the dancing maiko needs at least twenty people, at most forty or fifty people, and then the wine is served, the lights are lit, in the Song Dynasty candles are still very expensive, but the Dengzhou Mansion even the stables and toilets have to light countless huge candles at night, and the next morning, just the candle tears shed can be so high that people trip down.

As soon as it gets dark, it begins, and there are countless beautiful maikos, beautiful songs and dances, as well as delicious food and wine, and brightly lit mansions, so that visitors can't tell whether it's day or night......

This kind of life atmosphere made the bold man Zhang Qixian dumbfounded.

Therefore, Zhao Heng thought of using Kou Zhun several times, but he was unanimously opposed by several prime ministers.

Not to mention Zhang Qixian, even Song Jiu, who has always had a good impression of Kou Zhun, was a little dumbfounded after hearing these situations. Mr. Kou Da, no one cares about your salary, but if it goes on like this, you have to look at the situation of the people in Dengzhou, there are still countless poor people in Dengzhou. Besides, is your salary enough to guarantee that you can use it like this? Think about it like this...... That's bad. (To be continued......)