After receiving the news that the Jin State had begun to overhaul the boundary trenches on the southwestern border, Zhao Ta was delighted, and he not only subdued the Mugyu tribe with a wonderful performance, but also dragged the Jin State into a new arms race. At that time, the Qin Dynasty annexed the Six Kingdoms and owned the world, but a Great Wall project not only consumed a huge amount of money from the country, but also destroyed the economic foundation because of the requisitioning of hundreds of thousands of people, causing anger and resentment, and finally closed the door in the peasant uprising.

The modern Soviet Union, straddling the Eurasian continent, was once the world's largest power, with one of the best economic and military strength, but it was still dragged down in the arms race with the United States. And similar dramas are also constantly being staged, whenever a country strengthens its armaments, the other side has to follow suit in order to maintain the balance of military power, even if it smashes the pot and sells iron, it has to be engaged, and if it can't be made by itself, it has to be bought with money, which can be said to be the most money-burning thing.

In the same way, the current strength of the Jin State is not the same as that of the Qin Dynasty back then, the territory occupied is much smaller, the population is much smaller, and it can be said that it is the strength of the whole country to do such a big project, and most of the money has been invested in it over the years. And the defense of the Great Song Dynasty is not only to repair the boundary trenches, but also to have follow-up investment, not only to increase the troops, but also to prepare weapons, and to do a reckless military thing.

The people of Jin have to pay heavy taxes and serve the endless conscription of the country, and the young and strong have to accept the levy at any time to prepare for the expedition, and the people's livelihood is difficult and resentful. There are constantly unbearable people crossing the border to flee to neighboring countries, for which the Jin State and other countries continue to quarrel and conflict, but it is still difficult to recover, it can be said that the boundary trench project is really a waste of money and money, but in the face of the increasingly powerful and aggressive Great Song Dynasty they have to do it. Tighten your belt and get this project up too!

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In April, Zhao Ta left Bianjing under the pretext of inspecting the summer harvest work. these years. It has become the norm for the emperor to go out on patrol, and the ministers are slowly getting used to it. Not only will they no longer be persuaded as hard as in the past, but they will actively prepare. And Zhao Ta out of Beijing is not like other emperors like to engage in such a big pomp, often just a guard brigade and internal guard brigade accompaniment, although there are also 5,000 people, along the way there are Zhenfu Division troops responsible for peripheral security, but it can be regarded as a light car and simple to follow.

Now that the relationship between the emperor and the empress is also harmonious, Zhu Shuzhen is busy with the newspaper every day, and is unwilling to follow the emperor on tour, so he stays with the empress dowager to supervise the country. But those imperial concubines had already thought about going out of Beijing, so they went with them. However, Shangshu Province had already made arrangements, and Li Gang and Xu Jingheng, who were too old to travel far away, formed a temporary team to accompany them with Chen Yu, the right minister, Zhao Yi, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, and officials sent by various ministries to assist in handling government affairs.

The holy driver and his party were not in a hurry, and they walked and stopped through the state, and he watched while walking, one was to see the production recovery after the disaster. Estimate the output of summer grains and supervise the sowing of autumn grains to completely eliminate the impact of the severe drought; The second is to check and accept the results of the water conservancy facilities and road widening projects that have invested huge sums of money to see if there are any tofu slag projects. In the future, they will harm their children and grandchildren.

When he arrived near Luoyang, it was the summer harvest season, and Zhao Ta saw that he had to stop and take a look at the large fields, and went down to the fields to see the growth in person. Estimate the yield. Everyone knows that the emperor is not only a good hand at fighting wars and governing the country, but he also grew up in the countryside since he was a child. He is proficient in all the five elements and eight works, and the work in the field is not a layman. There was something that couldn't hide it from him, so the local officials were also trembling when they accompanied him, lest the emperor find fault with it.

Zhao Ta spent the Dragon Boat Festival in Luoyang, and did not go to Yanjing Yanfangdian to escape the summer according to the previous itinerary, but went west to Hedong. He has walked this road for many years, and he is naturally very familiar with it, thinking that it was from this that he went to the northwest to lay a solid foundation for today's achievements, but since Jingkang led the army back to the east in the last years, he has never returned.

After a large-scale renovation, the road is much smoother and wider than in the past, and now Zhao Ta is naturally in a different mood when he walks this road for more than ten years, and this road carries too much excitement, sadness, anxiety and sadness. It's just that the young man who was a trick at the beginning has reached middle age, and the little prince who doesn't know where the road is already the lord of a country, and some of the people who accompany him have passed away, and some have also reached the end of their lives.

Zhao Ta was in charge of Hedong for more than ten years, and he was benevolent and benevolent in his administration, enriching the country and strengthening the people, and defending against strong enemies outside to expand his territory, especially twice leading the troops to defeat the Jurchens and relieve the siege of Taiyuan, so that Hedong was free from poison and won the love of the people. After entering Taiyuan, the system of the Sifu where he had lived for many years has been transformed into a palace, and the layout inside is basically the same, but things are not people, the master and Huang Daguan are far away in the south of the Yangtze River, and there are not many opportunities for him to come here again.

Revisiting the old place, Zhao Ta and several princesses are not unfamiliar with this place, especially Zhemei Luan's family is Hedong, and naturally feels more cordial, so he ordered someone to send a letter to Fuzhou to let the family come to get together. Unexpectedly, this provoked Zhao Xin and Yu Liyan also felt homesick, Zhao Ta pondered that he couldn't favor one over the other, Datong is not far from here, so he simply moved to the mandarin duck to escape the summer, and also learned from the emperor of Liao to work while playing, and just happened to see the new place of the Great Song Dynasty.

So after staying in Taiyuan for a few days, I drove to Datong again. When Yelu Yu heard about the great joy, he immediately led his troops and the first part of the Kryu army to go out of the mansion for 200 miles to Shuozhou to greet him, and happily welcomed the emperor and the imperial concubines into Datong. At this time, it was just in time for June 18, and according to the Khitan customs, the Yelu clan should set up a banquet to invite the Xiao clan. Now that the Yelu clan has lost the country, the Xiao family has also become the imperial concubine of the Song Dynasty, but the customs are still there, so the current patriarch of the Yelu clan, Yelu Yu, will make an east banquet for the emperor and his party.

After the destruction of the Liao State, the Khitan people scattered in various places gradually returned to the old land, and Datongfu has become one of the most important gathering places, although they lost their past privileges, but the Great Song Dynasty did not slow down them, and treated them equally. More than ten years have passed, and those princes and nobles also knew that there was no hope of recovering the country, so they were relieved to be obedient people, and the ordinary people felt that they were better off than when they were in Liao, where to miss the mediocre Yelu Yanxi, who had gradually integrated into the Great Song Dynasty.

Now both the Yelu and Xiao clans have women married to the current emperor, and they are very favored, and now the emperor himself is 'accompanied' back to his hometown and province, and he feels that his face is bright. And Yu Liyan and Zhao Xin have each become the glory and backer of their own clan, and of course everyone is very welcome. Zhao Ta is also rare to be generous, and a lot of rewards are sprinkled, and everyone is naturally happy.

Zhao Ta also followed the customs of the locals, and according to the Khitan customs, he set up a tent to stay in the west of the palace thirty miles the day and night before the Midyear Festival, and prepared wine and food. The next day, the leaders of the tribes were invited to 'welcome the festival', and the banquet was held until sunset before returning to the palace. On the 16th, he went to the west to 'send off the festival', and the accompanying army made a big noise three times before it was settled. He put on such a gesture, in addition to giving the two imperial concubines a long face, it was also a signal that the Great Song Dynasty respected the customs and beliefs of all ethnic groups and would not force them to change their customs, so as to weaken their resistance.

After the holiday, the weather became hotter and hotter, and Zhao Ta invited Yelu Yuzhen and Xiao Chongjian brothers to go to Mandarin Duck to escape the summer. But good days are always short-lived, the northwest has temporarily stabilized, and Dali in the south has problems again......

Since the Great Song Dynasty supported Duan Heyu to return to power in the eighth year of the rejuvenation of the country, it vigorously developed friendly relations with the Song Dynasty, paid tribute every year, and sent people to the court every year. But as he grew older, he became an inevitable problem, but he had eight sons, all of whom wanted to be kings. And the left minister Gao Liangcheng and the right minister Dong Mida each supported a prince, and the other princes also recruited their cronies and clans to start an open and secret fight, fighting to the death.

And when the Great Song Dynasty solved the Dali problem, it also left a tail. At that time, the departments of Dongchuan County, Jianchang Prefecture and Shicheng County demanded to secede from Dali and belong to the Great Song Dynasty. Zhao Ta did not want to affect the relations between the two countries that had just been normalized because of this matter, so he ordered his envoys to 'persuade' in every possible way, but the ministries had already made up their minds. Therefore, the Great Song Dynasty 'Jianyì' did not accept their annexation for the time being, and the three counties set up special districts for a period of three years, and then they decided to stay at their own discretion, and neither country was allowed to interfere at that time.

These three counties are sitting on rich copper mines, but unfortunately they are all controlled by the Great Song Consortium, so the interests of both parties are tightly tied together. However, the influx of capital and population also provided an opportunity for the development of the three counties, so that they ended their life of slash-and-burn cultivation and lived the enviable life of the 'Great Song Dynasty'. As soon as the three-year agreement arrived, they once again proposed to join the Great Song Dynasty.

In order to take care of Duan Heyu's face, Zhao Tan postponed the deadline for two more years, and accepted the three counties as the people of the Great Song Dynasty in the thirteenth year of Xingguo. After that, the Great Song Dynasty implemented the policy of restraint, with the chiefs of various tribes as officials, and sent officials to the three counties to assist in the implementation of governance, and the central government also allocated funds to improve local health, education and people's livelihood, taught them to grow new crops, develop commerce, and allowed them to participate in the imperial examinations, so that the three counties were completely rid of poverty and ignorance.

The huge changes in the three counties naturally aroused the eyes of some tribes who had been in a wait-and-see state, and they also actively moved closer to the Great Song Dynasty to get the same treatment, and under the persuasion of well-intentioned people, they proposed to the imperial court to cancel the construction of the country name attached to the Song Dynasty. As long as those in power are not stupid, they will not allow their own people to be independent no matter what, and their Jianyi was naturally categorically rejected by Duan Heyu. When these tribes saw that the text could not be done, they changed it to martial arts, and civil war inevitably occurred.

Duan Heyu, the king of Dali, felt powerless to calm down in the face of internal and external rebellion, and the attitude of the Great Song Dynasty was **, saying that he believed that he had the ability to solve his own problems and did not want to interfere too much in his internal affairs. Faced with an increasingly chaotic situation, he decided to become a monk...... (To be continued......)