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It took only a little more than a year from the official start of the Great Qian Dynasty to the official demise of Western Xia.

It turns out that Li Cun is right again.

From the court to the people, there are people everywhere who praise Li Cun's merits.

It is generally believed that the successive emperors of the Zhao and Song dynasties failed to recover the Western Xia for a hundred years, and Li Cun recovered it in only one year, no wonder Li Cun was able to easily destroy the Zhao and Song dynasties, swept all the surrounding countries, and became an emperor through the ages.

In the face of such praise, Li Biao, who could have taken half of the credit, not only did he not regret it at all, but on the contrary, he was worried!

Many people thought that Li Biao was only because he was not sure of recovering Western Xia, so he delayed starting a war against Western Xia.

Actually, that's just one of the reasons.

In Li Biao's view, the order to attack Western Xia was very simple, and it was also very simple to continue to follow the route of Li Cun's Western Xia, but it was rare that he was not Li Cun, and he did not have the unparalleled prestige and prestige of Li Cun in the army.

Be.

Li Cun can casually issue a decree to attack Western Xia, or he can directly hand over the task of recovering Western Xia to a few generals and ministers, and then fully support them.

But Li Biao can't.

Li Cun dared to do this, it was because anyone in the army of the Great Qian Dynasty, including Zhao Li who recovered Jidi, Yue Fei, Li Yanxian, Han Shizhong who recovered Liaodong and Northeast China, and Wu Jue, Liu Qi, Wu Lan and others who had just recovered Western Xia, Li Cun could handle them at will, it is not an exaggeration to say that Li Cun let them go up, they will go up, Li Cun let them go down, they will go down, Li Cun let them live, they will live, Li Cun let them die, they will die, they will never have any complaints, take a step back and say, even if they have complaints, didn't dare and wouldn't say it, Li Biao was extremely sure that they would definitely obey Li Cun, and even willingly listen to Li Cun's unreasonable orders and go to death.

- Of course, Li Cun would definitely not do this.

And how can Li Biao be virtuous, how can he be like Li Cun?

Actually-

Li Biao didn't say anything about it to anyone, if, only if Li Cun died suddenly, what Li Biao was most worried about was nothing else, that is, the heroes of the Daqian Dynasty who won all battles and made great contributions to the Daqian Dynasty.

After the elimination of the Western Xia, Li Cun ordered to screen out 200,000 elites from the Western Xia army, retrain and educate them politically, and then separately enter the various armies of the Daqian Dynasty and organize them into the regular army of the Daqian Dynasty.

- At the beginning, when destroying Goryeo and Jin, Li Cun also used the same method to deal with the original armies of the two countries.

As a result, after the destruction of Goryeo, Jin and Western Xia, the army of the Daqian Dynasty swelled by nearly 700,000, making the army of the Daqian Dynasty exceed 2 million!

Moreover, these are all regular armies that cost a lot of money.

Those officers and men of the Goryeo Army, the Jin Army, and the Xia Army, who were originally treated very poorly, have been transformed into cadres and soldiers who are in charge of everything, have extremely high salaries, and have a very high social status, eat well, dress warmly, and have high military salaries, and are respected wherever they go, and the atmosphere in the cadres and troops is still very good, and the political work cadres not only never beat them with whips, but patiently solve all the difficulties and troubles they encounter, and the Han soldiers never bully them. The soldiers of the Xia army must be extremely willing to accept such a new life.

But the problem is that this has brought an extremely heavy burden to the finances of the Daqian Dynasty.

Let's put it in the most intuitive number.

Today, the annual cost of raising the army of the Daqian Dynasty is as high as nearly 100 million, which is double the cost of raising the army of the Zhao and Song Dynasty.

If wartime, including the rewards for meritorious soldiers, the pensions for soldiers killed in battle, the resettlement of disabled soldiers, and so on, 150 million yuan a year will not be enough!

What is this concept?

It is known as the richest dynasty in history, that is, the world's largest agricultural productivity! The world's No. 1 in handmade production! The world's first in mining and smelting technology! No. 1 in the world in terms of iron production! The world's first shipbuilding industry! The world's first in the entertainment industry! The world's first in urbanization! No. 1 house price in the world! The average income of the people is the first in the world! The Zhao and Song dynasties, which had the world's largest fiscal revenue, had only 160 million yuan in revenue at its peak.

And if it catches up with the bad year, the financial income of the Zhao and Song dynasties will also be seventy or eighty million.

In other words, if it was the period of the Zhao and Song dynasties, a year's financial income was sometimes not enough to support so many troops.

That is to say, Li Cun has engaged in maritime trade, vigorously developed commerce, vigorously developed agriculture, and vigorously developed industry in recent years, which made the Daqian Dynasty unprecedentedly rich, and the Daqian Dynasty won many battles and victories, seizing the accumulation of the Zhao and Song dynasties for 200 years, the accumulation of the Great Liao Empire for 300 years, the accumulation of the Goryeo Dynasty for more than 200 years, the looting of the Jin people everywhere, and even the spoils of war looted by digging graves and all the accumulation of the Li Dynasty and the Champ Dynasty, and squeezing a lot of wealth from the surrounding Khmer, Japan and other countries, so that this problem was not exposed.

However, there will always be a day when this war will end completely, and several big dynasties and big countries around it have been wiped out by the Daqian Dynasty, leaving only some small fish and shrimp, where can the Daqian Dynasty go next to grab it?

When there is no place to grab, the more than two million troops with extremely high costs still have to be supported by the financial income of the Daqian Dynasty?

If you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, you don't know how expensive they are

The annual financial income of the Daqian Dynasty is now close to 500 million yuan, which seems to be a lot, and the previous dynasties are not as rich as the Daqian Dynasty.

- Except for the Qing Dynasty in history, when the Qing Dynasty's fiscal revenue reached the highest in China's history, 300 million taels of silver. The Song Dynasty was equivalent to 1,500 to 16 million taels of silver. The Ming Dynasty had only three hundred to four million taels of silver. The Daqian Dynasty was only converted into tens of millions of taels of silver, which was still quite far from the peak of the Qing Dynasty, and only caught up with the financial revenue of the middle of the Qing Dynasty.

The financial revenue of the Great Qian Dynasty was unprecedentedly large, but the expenses of the Great Qian Dynasty were also unprecedentedly large.

First of all, the Great Qian Dynasty built railways everywhere, and the personnel used in the construction of railways in the Great Qian Dynasty, except for a few labor prisoners, were all paid hired people, plus supporting related industries, such as iron and steel mills, such as the harvesting and manufacturing of sleepers, such as the felling and processing of stones, and related transportation, as well as the opening of mountains, the construction of bridges, etc., etc., etc., all of this, which does not cost money?

You think that's the end of it?

As early as 15 years ago, Li Cun put forward the slogan "If you want to get rich, you must first build roads", so that the Daqian Dynasty not only had to build railways, but also built official roads extending in all directions and built all kinds of bridges.

The investment in these capital construction is an astronomical amount that ordinary people dare not think of, and it is an astronomical amount that must be invested every year.

Second, the Daqian Dynasty vigorously developed the shipbuilding industry and vigorously promoted maritime exploration, which was also a huge investment.

Do you think that during the Ming Dynasty in history, why did Zheng He ban the sea after he went to the West six times, and even Zheng He's navigation logbook and navigation charts were burned by Liu Daxia, not because it was too expensive to do this?

Thirdly, the Daqian Dynasty also invested a lot in education, medical care, pension, resettlement of veterans, and other aspects of people's livelihood, and the cost was naturally not small.

And that's not all it takes the most.

The most expensive thing is actually the Industrial Revolution.

This is the most money-burning policy, and more than half of the annual financial revenue of the Daqian Dynasty must be smashed into this.

Let's put it this way, historically, Britain, known as the empire on which the sun never sets, colonized almost the whole world to support the Industrial Revolution, and if you think about it, how much it would cost.

Also, Li Cun is moving at every turn because he has recovered this place and there, and he has made an amnesty and a tax exemption, and in addition, when the year is bad, Li Cun has to do a disaster relief or something.

By the way, there is also the damn Yellow River, which has been governed for more than ten years, and has not been completely governed, and tens of millions of dollars have to be thrown away every year.

These are stacked together, in Li Biao's eyes, where he inherited is an inexhaustible country, which is clearly a heavy burden that has weighed him down.

Actually-

For example, the construction of railways, infrastructure construction, marine exploration, education, medical care, pensions, the resettlement of veterans, and the industrial revolution, including the control of the Yellow River, are easy to solve.

In Li Cun's view, the most troublesome thing is this army.

With so many troops, it's really too much money.

The key is that Li Biao does not dare to carry the army.

If Li Biao really dared to carry out disarmament, the army would have rebelled and overthrown his rule.

However, these arrogant soldiers and fierce generals also think that they have laid a great foundation for the Daqian Dynasty, and thanks to the Daqian Dynasty, everything they have obtained is deserved, and if they are given a lower treatment, it is estimated that they will all rebel.

There are also the soldiers newly accepted by the Daqian Dynasty who originally belonged to the Goryeo Army, the Jin Army (Liao Army), and the Xia Army, who had just entered heaven, and Li Biao kicked them back to hell, how could they not jump.

- Of course, Li Biao felt that this was only operated by him, and if Li Cun operated it, he might be able to solve this problem. As a matter of fact, Li Biao has always wanted to talk to Li Cun about disarmament and reducing the treatment of military personnel. But Li Cun's side has been fighting, and it is precisely when soldiers are needed to serve. Li Biao is not a fool, how can he engage in "unloading the mill and killing the donkey" at this time?

It is precisely because Li Biao saw this, or it can also be said that it is precisely because of the literati and strategists behind Li Biao who analyzed the danger here for Li Biao, and Li Biao was worried that if the Daqian Dynasty suffered a big defeat in the process of conquering Western Xia, then the backlog of the Daqian Dynasty might break out in advance, and Li Biao did not start a war against Western Xia for a long time.

Now the results have also proved that Li Biao's worries are not unreasonable, no, after a national war, not only did the cadres not decrease, but on the contrary, there were 200,000 more dangerous elements with huge consumption.

In this kind of situation, if Li Biao proposes to Li Cun to disarm and reduce the treatment of soldiers, he will definitely confirm his reputation of "unloading the mill and killing donkeys." In this way, the good reputation that he has accumulated after two years of hard work in the army will not only be exhausted, but he will also arouse the disgust of the military, and it is not certain that the military will operate and let Li Cun change the crown prince.

In addition, Li Biaozhen was worried that if Li Cun defeated the surrounding grasslands, Tibet, Dali, and the Western Regions, the standing army of the Daqian Dynasty might be as high as 3 million.

If that day really comes, Li Biao will have to die of sorrow.

Let's ask, Li Biao, who saw all this clearly, where can he regret not personally participating in the battle of Vaxi Xia now?

Li Biao looked at Li Cun, who was holding the nineteen-year-old Empress Dowager Ren in his left hand, and the Empress Dowager Ren, who was about the same age as the Empress Dowager Ren in his right hand, and was being served by a group of daughters of the Western Xia royal family and the daughters of the clan, looking at Li Cun who was dancing there with a group of Xixia dancers, and thought: "Father, Emperor, you have repeatedly created miracles, just create another miracle and solve these worries for your sons, okay?" ”

Let's talk about Li Cun.

Li Cun did not have this anxiety of Li Biao at all.

Some people may want to ask, Li Biao can see the problems and hidden dangers, Li Cun should not be able to see it, right?

How could Li Cun not see it, if he didn't even know what the problems and hidden dangers of the Daqian Dynasty he had created, wouldn't Li Cun become a confused dumb king?

Actually-

Li Cun knew better than anyone what was wrong and what hidden dangers the Daqian Dynasty had.

However, Li Cun never worried about these problems and these hidden dangers, because Li Cun had a way to solve these problems and these hidden dangers.

It is no exaggeration to say that as long as Li Cun does not die, Li Cun will definitely be able to solve these problems and hidden dangers that Li Biao is worried about.

It's just that Li Cun can't say these things yet, and Li Cun also wants to see how Li Biao deals with these problems and hidden dangers, which can be regarded as an exercise for Li Biao by Li Cun.

Now, instead of worrying about the problems of the Daqian Dynasty and the hidden dangers of the Daqian Dynasty, Li Cun is more worried about another matter.

As far as Li Cun knows, the women of Western Xia are the most strong.

History says: "Xia customs, ashamed of not taking revenge".

The spiritual shaping of Western Xia women who have revenge is completely different from the education of the three obedience and four virtues in feudal society.

This is the influence of Tangut women by Tangut cultural factors.

In fact, the same is true of Western Xia men.

In Western Xia society, it was shameful to have revenge and not take revenge.

Records of female soldiers in Western Xia are associated with revenge.

"Xixia Waiji" cloud: Xixia women, happy to take revenge, if there is a mourning, they will not cut people, and they will bear the nail leaf in their backs. Hatred, with the blood of chickens, pigs, dogs, and wine, stored in the skull to drink, but the oath said: "If revenge is restored, the grain and wheat will not be harvested, the men and women will be bald, the six animals will die, and the snake will enter the account." ”

The powerful and small can not avenge, gather strong women, enjoy cattle and sheep wine and food, tend to the enemy's arson, and burn their houses.

As the saying goes: The enemy female soldiers are ominous and avoid them.

From these descriptions, it can be seen that in the revenge action, the women of the Western Xia were not bound by the standards of women's morality like the women of the Central Plains, but when someone "was too weak to take revenge", they gathered in one place, sacrificed animals, and fought after they were full of wine and food, and only then could they stop burning, killing and looting.

The fierceness of the Western Xia women made the enemies walk around.

The history books explicitly refer to such women who gather for revenge as "female soldiers".

Zeng Gong's "Biography of Zhao Baoji" also recorded: There are murderers who have not recovered, and they are remembered by negative nail leaves. Those who cannot be restored gather the women of their neighbors, cook cattle and sheep, and have wine and food, and then turn to the enemy's house and set fire to them. Those who are female soldiers are not prosperous, so they are deeply evil.

Tangut women have revenge and are recognized in Tangut society. These women who dared to fight were no ordinary women, and they valued the courage and courage of the spirit.

In the Central Plains, there are strict restrictions on women, especially with the rise of science, the kind of requirements for women to "starve to death is a small matter, and a loss of temperament is a big matter" and women's "three obedience and four virtues" are full of government and opposition.

And the Tangut women can even sacrifice their lives to boldly pursue their true love, and the performance of the Tangut women who are not bound by etiquette and love is just the opposite of the Central Plains.

The marriage of a woman in the Central Plains is the order of her parents and the words of the matchmaker.

Xixia proverb: "In the next life, you will fall in love with each other, return ten times a day, do not love your own home, and go far to the end of the world." ”

The marriage of Western Xia women was never decided by their parents, but elopement was accepted by society.

According to the "Tiansheng Decree", a Western Xia woman could run away with other men, and if she no longer liked it for a while, she could run away with another person who was in love with each other, and then start a new family, even if she returned to her original home to live, the original husband could not stop her.

Let's put it this way, due to the sparse population, the labor force and combat power are seriously insufficient, the Western Xia Dynasty had to let women take on the task of social production and foreign combat, and gave the Western Xia women the right to control their own destiny, women participate in war, participate in politics, revenge and the pursuit of love regardless of their lives, all reflect the courage and fierceness of the Western Xia women compared with men.

To a certain extent, Tangut women are the closest group of women to equality between men and women in ancient times.

When Li Renxiao and the royal family and clan of Western Xia were not escorted to Jingshi, the Great Liang family, Xiao Liang family, Li family, and many other Western Xia women of Li Cun repeatedly reminded Li Cun that they must be careful of Western Xia women, and it is best not to let the royal daughters of Western Xia and the daughters of Western Xia clans enter the palace.

Da Liang's, Xiao Liang's, Li and other Western Xia women also told Li Cun that the reason why these Xixia women were allowed to be played with by Li Cun and at the mercy of Li Cun and did not resist was because most of them came with the idea of serving the country, and they would definitely not cause trouble for their country and their families, but now the situation is very different, Li Cun destroyed the Western Xia, captured the men, fathers or sons of these Western Xia women, and even killed the men, fathers or sons of these Western Xia women, There is already a great enmity with these Western Xia women who have lost their country and destroyed their families, and it is difficult to guarantee that none of them will deliberately want to assassinate Li Cun to avenge their hatred......

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