In the Fan Building, Zhao Jun feasted.

Fan Zhongyan didn't know the taste of food - he was spicy.

The two of you say a word, and I will improve the new policy to be issued this year.

Historically, the Qingli New Deal was issued at one time and lasted for a short period of less than two years.

But today's new policy is released slowly, only a part of it is issued each time, and after this part is changed, it will continue to change to other policies.

The reason for this is that the Great Song Dynasty has been sick for too long, and the stubborn disease is in the body, and it is difficult to eradicate it once and for all.

So you need to take it step by step, just like a patient with a serious disease all over your body, what you need to do is the first step to stabilize and eliminate the disease that can be fatal.

Then the rest of the serious diseases that are not fatal, but may develop to fatal, can be cured, and then those chronic diseases and minor diseases can be treated.

And the treatment is only the beginning, the disease is cured, and it has to be recuperated for a long time so that the patient can gradually recover.

After recovery, we can talk about development and how to maintain long-term health of the body and mind.

The current situation is that Zhao Jun has just cleared the fatal disease after several rounds of reform, but there are still a small part that have not been completely cured.

Therefore, he must take advantage of the present to get rid of these serious illnesses and stubborn diseases, and then start to lay out the problems of long-term development in the future.

When the country is stable and all the symptoms are cured, it is about a few years of rest.

Basically, when things like rubber and cinchona take root in the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty will usher in rapid development.

And this issue of land annexation is one of the serious diseases.

Zhao Jun's policy of completely banning land sales is still too aggressive, and Fan Zhongyan strongly opposes it.

However, he didn't quarrel with Fan Zhongyan, because even he felt very radical, so he was able to discuss a solution with Lao Fan calmly.

And apart from looting the tenant farmers of the rich landlords and making them have no one to cultivate the fields, Zhao Jun believes that there is another way.

"It's time to start raising taxes on the landlords and wealthy households."

Zhao Jun wiped his mouth with a towel, and there were only scraps left on the table, as if they were a group in the country.

But not ordinary people, but a group of vampires who eat people without spitting out bones and entrenched in the heads of the people at the bottom.

"Well, but speaking of taxes, since the sale and purchase of land cannot be banned, why not collect a land transaction tax? In this way, they turn their left hand to their right hand, and they want to raise the price of the land, won't they lose? ”

Fan Zhongyan suddenly thought of something.

"Yo."

Zhao Jun's eyes lit up and said: "We two stinkers, really Zhuge Liang." Sometimes I still have to use my brain and brainstorm ideas, but I can't do it alone. ”

Saying that, he hesitated for a while, thinking about whether to call his two younger brothers, Li Di and Xia Zhu, to discuss together, and their brains were also flexible.

But it's better to think about it.

The reason why it is concealed from the Constitutional Yuan is that although everyone has the same political purpose, their interests are not the same, and it is easy for differences to occur.

A large part of these people are from the landlord class, and let them fight themselves, isn't that a trouble?

And talk with Lao Fan because Lao Fan has the same interests as him.

Lao Fan was born in a small bureaucratic family, but his family was in the middle of the road, and when he was young, he had to eat porridge and cut off his teeth, and his life was no better than that of ordinary people.

Therefore, after taking power, they all want to crack down on corrupt officials, corruption in the army, and landlords to protect the interests of the common people.

Therefore, at least in the next few decades, he and Lao Fan have a long period of cooperation to go, and the two of them discuss these things together, so that there are not so many worries and quarrels.

"In addition to the tax changes, there should be other changes. Now is the retreat period of the Xiaoice period, the global recovery, and the ecology is gradually recovering. ”

Zhao Jun thought for a while and said: "Not only in Guangdong, but also in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, where the sunshine will be more sufficient, I think cotton as a cash crop can be promoted in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and will be included in the tax system in the future, and will be widely planted throughout the country." ”

Fan Zhongyan said worriedly: "You said before that cotton was promoted throughout the country during the Yuan Dynasty, and it was not forcibly promoted until the Zhu Yuanzhang period. Does this mean that the real Xiaoice River is over, and it will not be until the beginning of tomorrow, and if it is promoted now, will it cause any problems? ”

"Hmm"

Zhao Jun groaned: "Let's try it first." It is not so easy to completely end this Xiaoice period in one day or two, but the current cotton production is still too small to protect against the cold. In the future, if you want to reclaim the Northeast, cotton is indispensable. ”

"I see."

"By the way, don't we have a good relationship with Qingtang? After the American cotton production we brought back from North America was raised, we sent it to the Western Regions to be planted. ”

"Send it to the Western Regions? Now that the Western Xia controlled a lot of the Uighur regions of the Western Prefecture, wasn't this an enemy? ”

Fan Zhongyan frowned.

When I first traveled to North America, I not only brought back crops, but also a large amount of North American cotton.

Cotton is divided into Asian cotton and American cotton according to the type, and the cotton that Zhao Jun brought back from the Western Regions at the earliest time is the Asian grass cotton that came from India, the yield is relatively low, and the advantage is that the growth cycle is short, and cotton can grow in about 130 days.

American cotton is also a grass cotton, which can grow for a long time, and it takes more than 200 days under the condition of sufficient light and water resources. If the growth demand is not met, it will take a year to produce cotton.

However, the advantages of American cotton are also obvious, high yield, good quality, is different from Asian short-staple cotton long-staple cotton, later China's Xinjiang region on a large area of this cotton.

Now that the fleet has been brought back from North America, the imperial court has ordered it to be planted in areas with plenty of sunshine and heat, such as Canton, just to wait for the production to increase.

Compared with Guangzhou, the Western Regions are obviously more suitable for planting. It's just that now a large part of the Western Regions is controlled by Li Yuanhao, if he gets North American cotton, wouldn't it be even more developed for him?

"I don't understand."

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "I call everyone to share good things, in the future, what is yours is mine, and mine is still mine." ”

Fan Zhongyan was a little thorough, and suddenly realized: "Do you want to use them to help you promote this kind of cotton in the Western Regions, and when the promotion is successful in the future and mature, you will destroy the Western Xia, recover the Western Regions, and take it for yourself?" ”

"Don't be so ugly."

Zhao Jun said: "I repeat it again, the Western Regions, the Northeast, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and Taiwan have been inalienable territories of our country since ancient times. Moreover, the descendants of the Dangxiang clan have been members of the 56 big Chinese families in our country since ancient times, and I am asking them to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors. ”

"Ah, yes, yes, there are Khitans, Dali, and Tibetans. In the future, will they be Koreans, Japanese, and members of our big family since ancient times? ”

Fan Zhongyan laughed.

"If they want to come, I welcome it, East Asia is a whole circle of Confucian culture, let's get together with common prosperity, common development, under the influence of Confucian culture, together to form a brother, brother, brother, brother, and harmonious family, isn't it beautiful?"

Zhao Jun spread his hands and said the words of annexing Japan and Goryeo in a high-sounding manner, without feeling that there was anything wrong at all.

In fact, there really is nothing wrong with that.

Because this era is not an era in which the international order has been determined in later generations, at least even if the Great Song Dynasty of this era recovers Zhuozhou, it will only be 3 million square kilometers, and even one-third of the later generations have not reached.

In the heyday of the Yuan Dynasty, there were 13 million square kilometers of land.

While the order of this period has not yet been determined, the territory area is still in the era of who conquers and who occupies.

Zhao Jun struck first, taking advantage of the first-mover advantage accumulated by the Great Song Dynasty to destroy the Liao State and break the Western Xia, seize Dali and take the Western Regions, and then include the Northeast, the Mongolian steppe, Goryeo, Japan and even Vietnam into the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, which is also a reasonable thing.

The only problem is that at present, the Great Song Dynasty only has the national strength to defeat the Liao State and annex the Western Xia, but not the national strength to eliminate the Liao State and annex the Liao State. So it needs to develop for a while and become stronger.

"You didn't finish talking about long-term plans yet."

Fan Zhongyan looked at the leftovers on the table, and then turned his head to look out the window, it was still lunch break, and the weather was still cold, but the spring willows in Bianliang City were already swaying in the wind.

"Getting the land annexation is only the first step, in order to lay rails and develop trains across the country after the mass production of steam engines in the future."

Zhao Jun said: "In addition, it is to ensure the basic red line of agricultural land, and not to let individuals own too much land to form a landlord class, even if they become a bourgeoisie, it is beneficial to the country in this period, and the landlord class is too malignant, and India just did not eradicate the landlord class and caused the situation in later generations." ”

"Well, and then what?"

"The second step, of course, is to wait for rubber and cinchona frost to come, and then officially start the first industrial revolution, rubber is used in mass production of steam engines, a large number of factories are built, and Lingnan, Taiwan, Hainan and other places are developed to strengthen export trade."

"That's such a big step?"

Fan Zhongyan was surprised.

The first kick is just to solve the problem of land annexation, and the second kick is directly to the industrial revolution?

"It's just grand strategy."

Zhao Jun shook his head and said: "At the level of tactical execution, just a land annexation, the imperial court does not know how many policies, how much money and manpower to solve. ”

"That's just as well."

Fan Zhongyan nodded.

"In terms of the first step of overall planning, I think there are three directions, one is to deal with land annexation, the second is to build a large national infrastructure, and the third is to prepare for the future."

Zhao Jun said: "I have already told you about the first direction, and I have also talked about the second one, and I will make it clear about the third one." ”

He looked at Lao Fan, tapped lightly on the table, and said, "We must take Vietnam down." ”

"Vietnam?"

"Yes, at least the Hanoi Plain should be done."

"Why?"

Fan Zhongyan was puzzled.

Vietnam has repeatedly violated the border of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty has not dealt with it, not because it does not have this national strength, but because it is really far away from the emperor.

There are many Tusi in Guangxi, and the Song Dynasty has always adopted the rule of restraint, and the rare power structure is only in the county seat or state capital, such as Yongzhou, which is the later Nanning City, which is the governor of the Great Song Dynasty.

But out of Yongzhou City, Zhizhou's orders will be weakened a lot, and they can only control the Han people around the city, and the ethnic minorities in the mountains are nominally obedient, but it is not necessarily how much they can hear.

Moreover, there are many mountains and dense forests over there, and the cost of sending troops can be higher than that of Liao and Western Xia, in history, Song Renzong encountered Nong Zhigao's rebellion, and before Di Qing went out, Nong Zhigao won many battles, and the Song army's mountain operations, logistics and supply, and tactical play were all problems.

Even if Di Qing went out, he would have brought an army of 200,000 and spent millions of yuan to pacify the goods. It can be seen that the southwest is not a small number of people can be solved, but simply troubled by factors such as terrain, diseases and so on.

If you want to get the southwest done, the prerequisite may be that you need cinchona. But the need for cinchona trees to be planted in the rainforests of Southeast Asia creates a paradox.

"Grain, cinchona, rubber!"

Zhao Jun admitted: "Many diseases are transmitted by mosquitoes sucking blood, especially malaria. But there are too many mosquitoes in the south to get rid of them at all, so you can only rely on cinchona. Like rubber, this thing grows in tropical rainforests and needs to be planted in Yunnan, Taiwan, Hainan, and Southeast Asia, and we must prepare the soil in advance for them to survive. ”

"But if you attack the southwest, it is not as good as attacking the Liao State and the Western Xia, and I am confident that I will win the battle against the Liao State and the Western Xia, and the enemy in the southwest may not be Vietnam, but various diseases."

Fan Zhongyan frowned.

"I've also considered this, there is no need to send a brigade of men, let the firearms battalion go to 10,000 or 20,000 people, and push Vietnam out of the Vietnamese flat for me, as for the ordinary soldiers."

Zhao Jun narrowed his eyes and said with a slight smile: "There are some soldiers stationed in the local area, but it is really not good, and there are Nong Zhigao." ”

"Isn't Nong Zhigao a rebel thief? If it weren't for the imperial court's repeated use of troops against Western Xia and Liao over the years, I am afraid that someone would have been sent to destroy him long ago. ”

Fan Zhongyan was puzzled.

"If he wants to rebel, he will rebel in the future, this matter is a loss for the Great Song Dynasty, it is my Great Song Dynasty who has not taken care of his own territory, and has been being exploited by foreign countries, this is our own shame, and it is none of his business."

"You mean we should take him?"

"What if it weren't?"

"But now that Nong Zhigao has established himself as a country, what if he just wants to use us to defeat Vietnam and then dominate in the southwest?"

"If that's the case, then it's no wonder that my Great Song Dynasty faked the Dao and killed him."

A trace of ruthlessness flashed in Zhao Jun's eyes.

Nong Zhigao is not good, but it is not that bad.

Because in essence, he was to fight against the oppression of the Li Dynasty in Vietnam, so he always wanted to belong to the Great Song Dynasty.

However, at that time in history, the Great Song Dynasty was at war with the Western Xia, and was really unable to take care of the southwest, so he ignored his request.

So Nong Zhi was angry and launched a rebellion, revolted and rebelled, wanting to occupy Guangxi and Guangdong, and was finally eliminated by Di Qing.

From this point of view, it is somewhat similar to "the warlords of northern Myanmar lost the battle with the Burmese government army, and repeatedly asked our country to accept it, but our country sternly refused." So a warlord surnamed Nong angrily led his army into Yunnan and was wiped out by our army. ”

However, the difference is that the warlords in northern Myanmar are internal affairs of Myanmar, and we are not good at interfering.

And Guangyuan Prefecture, where Nong Zhigao is located, is actually the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and belongs to one of the forty-four fetters of Yongzhou in the Great Song Dynasty.

Although this kind of feudal state is not the territory actually controlled by the Great Song Dynasty, it is a bit like an ethnic minority autonomous prefecture, but it is not a state like Goryeo and Ryukyu, but nominally belongs to the Great Song Dynasty.

Therefore, this can barely be regarded as the internal affairs of the Great Song Dynasty, and his uprising was also characterized by the Great Song Dynasty as a domestic rebellion.

It's just that as the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, Vietnam has substantially occupied it, and it is constantly squeezed, forcing the local people to pay high taxes, which is really unreasonable.

According to records, in the summer of 1039 alone, Guangyuan Prefecture was forced to "offer" a piece of raw gold weighing 112 taels to Jiaozhi. ”

Therefore, as the leader of the local ethnic minorities, Nong Zhigao raised the banner of resistance against Vietnam, which is a righteous thing.

At this point, Da Song is very reasonable.

His own territory is oppressed by others, but he doesn't care. The locals rebelled and wrote to the court, hoping that the court would send troops to help, but the court still ignored it.

The locals were furious and began to attack the imperial court, which sent troops to eliminate this resistance.

The end result is that Vietnam is more unscrupulous.

So in essence, the role played by Da Song in it is not good-looking. If you belong to your own borders, you can't manage them well, and even if you are bullied by Vietnam, you can only knock your teeth out of your stomach and swallow it yourself.

It's just that on the whole, the Great Song Dynasty is at a loss, but Nong Zhigao is not a good person.

He was cruel by nature, he killed his adoptive father at the age of thirteen, and after he started the army, he burned and plundered everywhere, and did all kinds of evil.

In addition, from the standpoint of the Song Dynasty, Nong Zhigao founded the country and became the emperor, which was extremely intolerable to the imperial power, so he was characterized as a rebel thief.

It's just that Zhao Jun, as a later generation, did not fully believe that "History of the Song Dynasty" characterized Nong Zhigao as a villain.

After all, from an objective point of view, he really maintained the unity of the country and kept the southwestern border from being invaded by foreign enemies.

So Zhao Jun plans to give Nong Zhigao a chance.

He said to Fan Zhongyan: "At the beginning of Qingli, Nong Zhigao wrote a letter hoping to return, and he has been writing letters in the past few years, and the imperial court has not given a resolution for the time being because it is busy dealing with the Liao State and the Western Xia, but only appeased him, and now that we have dealt with the Western Xia and the Liao State, it is time to deal with the problem of Vietnam." ”

"Vietnam has repeatedly provoked our Great Song Dynasty, not only often sending troops to the southwest, but also encroaching on our Song land and forcing our Song people to pay high taxes, which is tolerable and unbearable."

"In the past, Li Chaoyang violated the Yin, and on the surface, he constantly wrote to the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty to worship, but secretly harassed the border. My Great Song Dynasty has to face the Liao State and Western Xia, and the cost of attacking Vietnam is too high, so it is temporarily stranded, but now under the firearms and equipment, they have to pay the price. ”

"The Hanoi Plain is a very good place, both for agriculture and for cash crops. In addition, there is also an outlet to the Beibu Gulf, and I think it will be very good to establish a trade port in Guangxi, Hanoi, and Hainan after the Cinchona. ”

"Nong Zhigao is sincere, and we also have reasons and excuses to attack Vietnam, so take advantage of the situation and destroy Vietnam, at least we have to drive them to the south, and northern Vietnam, like the Han Dynasty, will return to the embrace of China."

"After that, if Nong Zhigao is honest, he will give him a southwest festival envoy, and first govern his own ethnic minorities, we only seek development, and then pursue ethnic integration in the future."

"But if Nong Zhigao is not sincere, and just wants to borrow the strength of the Great Song Dynasty to establish himself as the king, then destroy him too, what the Great Song Dynasty needs is a little brother who follows the Great Song with a heart, so that the Great Song will also bring them benefits. But if it's half-hearted, then there's no need to keep it. ”

"As for the white-eyed wolf of Vietnam."

In the end, Zhao Jun's eyes burst with murderous intent: "It's gone!" ”

(End of chapter)