Two days later, the midwinter snowflakes soon fell, and it didn't take long for the ground to turn white.

After the Song army set up camp, there was really no way to dig again.

Because if you want to dig a trench, you first have to clear so much snow, but the snow in the north seeps into the ground and quickly freezes the land, making excavation difficult.

Therefore, the civil engineering work of the Song people encountered considerable trouble, and in the end, they could only repair the camp for the time being, and then do other things.

And during this period, what Fan Zhongyan saw the most was the letters sent to them by many families in Yanyun.

Among the Yan Si family, except for the Changping Liu family, the other three families all tried to contact the Song army to varying degrees, and even some family members secretly ran over to surrender.

Di Qing's soldiers and horses blocked in Yuguan successively had more than 100,000 soldiers and horses of other nationalities, including Nuzhi, Bohai, Murowei and other nationalities.

The difference is that Cao Cao won the victory in the end, and the clans of Xu Du who secretly contacted Yuan Shao did not change their doors and joined Yuan Shao's command, and even the seized letters were burned by Cao Cao.

According to Zhao Jun's idea, now that there is an inflow of gold and silver from Japan, he can take back the gold as much as possible as an anchor, and the silver will be minted as silver coins, so that the School of Chemistry can synthesize a synthetic silver similar to Yuan Datou, and the face is rated as consistent money.

Under such circumstances, the movements and military arrangements of the Liao army seemed to be transparent in front of Fan Zhongyan, and there was no secret at all.

Liu Liufu just happened to be the first person to eat crabs, and he informed Liu Siduan of the situation of the Liao army in Xijin Mansion, Yuhe, Wanping and many surrounding counties.

After all, it will take less than 200 years from the first industrial revolution to the third industrial revolution, and if it works properly and is lucky enough, it may not be a dream to shorten the time of 100 years and enter the information age in advance.

Because the positioning is different.

Ordinary Maison officials were completely unaware of this classified information.

With the commercial development of the Great Song Dynasty for more than ten years, the prosperity of commerce and trade has reached a higher level, and small and medium-sized trade has become more and more frequent, but there is a lack of something as convenient as Jiaozi in such transactions.

A large number of officials in and out of the house in and out of the political system are constantly sending over the official documents that have been reported by various departments recently, which are basically reports on the government affairs of various departments this year and various financial expenditures.

Therefore, this battle is a battle that is even more disparate than the battle of Guandu in history, which naturally makes the Yanyun family feel frightened.

Yan Shu may be able to experience the train in his later years, but Zhao Jun feels that he can't even experience the plane in his later years, as long as the Great Song Dynasty develops fast enough, as long as he lives long enough, such as living one hundred and twenty years old, maybe he can dream back to the twenty-first century in his later years.

The Liao people often hid in the forest, first luring the Song army scouts to pursue, and then attacking with grenades or bows and crossbows when they got closer, and then suddenly killing when the Song army was in chaos, so as to barely fight a small victory.

In this way, the scouts on both sides fought for a long time, and slowly the time came to the end of December of the sixth year of Qingli.

For example, this year's educational achievements, the construction of roads in various places, and this year's agriculture, transportation, science and technology development, and so on.

After all, in addition to relying on the Su Guards and the Pi Room Army, which had a total strength of two or three hundred thousand, the Liao army also relied on the troops of other ethnic groups.

Just because of the weather, the Liao people have not failed to successfully ambush the Song army, taking advantage of the Song army's unpreparedness, first with a bow and crossbow sneak attack, and then suddenly killed, killing the Song army by surprise.

In this way, copper coins are still the main transactions in daily life below the usual money, and silver coins can be used for small transactions between the consistent money and fifty yuan. And for medium-value transactions between 50 and 500 yuan, paper money can be used.

Zhao Jun said: "In this case, let the head of Jiaozi draw up a set of banknote plans, and I will revise it at that time." ”

It is only necessary to ensure that the medium-value banknotes are not issued indiscriminately, and the taxes can be collected, and then the anti-counterfeiting measures can be dealt with, then the problem of small and medium-sized trade with increasing demand can be solved.

The more people on both sides, the scale of the war will naturally escalate. Although formal large-scale battles have not yet begun, small-scale wars have broken out constantly, and dozens of Song troops chasing hundreds of Liao troops often occur.

Xia Zhu responded.

During this period of time, a sealed war report was constantly sent back to Bianliang, and Bianliang's newspaper updated the news of the war situation every day, which not only made the people of the Great Song Dynasty excited, but also made the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty full of excitement.

On December 20, as the year approached, the Constitutional Yuan was very busy lately.

Xia Zhu once sent his servants to do business, and he is still very experienced in engaging in business activities, not to mention that he has worked in the previous Third Division for many years, and now he has worked in the Ministry of Finance for many years, so he naturally understands these truths.

Liu Siduan, on the other hand, would travel back and forth between Xijin and Danzhou in the name of escorting grain and grass every time, and then secretly spread the news to the Song camp in other ways.

Yan Shu gently tapped the brush in his hand on the table with the end of the pen and said: "The five trade routes we have drawn up in the past have increased their trade volume every year. However, since the second half of this year, the trade between Western Xia and Liao has been cut off, and two of them have been cut off at once, and foreign trade income is estimated to be greatly affected. ”

This is much safer than sending a message directly from the Sijin Mansion.

"There is also good news, this year, the Ministry of Statistics of the first ten months of fiscal revenue and gross national product has been counted, the fiscal revenue is more than 11 million guan more than last year, and now there are still November and December taxes have not been counted, last year it was 100.921 million guan, and this year it will have to exceed 110 million guan."

But not small notes, but the kind that are worth five and ten dollars.

Coupled with the Mongol people from Zhangjiakou in the north, the Liao army had gathered more than 400,000 troops two months after the start of the war.

In the midst of such a confrontation, time passed day by day.

But most of the time, the Liao people were shot down by the Song people, and they couldn't get close at all. Therefore, many Liao people were afraid of the Song people's firearms, and once the scouts of the two sides met, the Liao people were often far away and turned their horses' heads, scattering girls and running away, not giving the Song people time to pursue at all.

This is very similar to the scene before Yuan Shao and Cao Cao fought the Battle of Guandu.

This is related to the economic development of the Great Song Dynasty, and it must not be sloppy.

For this reason, Fan Zhongyan mainly encroached on the surrounding Liao land step by step, and constantly harassed the surrounding Liao land, at least for the time being, the entire southern part of Xijin Mansion was occupied by the Song army.

And Liu Liufu is an exception, although he was taken down by Yelu Zongzhen, Zhang Jian still admires his ability, so he has always been qualified to participate in the supreme meeting and can know a lot of military secrets.

He intends to officially issue banknotes.

"Yes, I will send someone to hand over the affairs later, and ask them to hand in the plan before the New Year."

But with the passage of time, the number of Liao troops is also increasing.

At the same time, cotton cloth, linen, silk and other items are used to make exquisite banknotes, which are worth five and ten times.

Therefore, it is very important to come up with a monetary system that can solve small and medium-sized transactions.

But on the whole, the Liao people suffered greater losses, and the battle loss ratio once reached fourteen to one, and it was necessary to kill and wound fourteen Liao people in exchange for the death of a Song army.

Zhao Jun said: "The real growth rate has not yet been put on the agenda, once the heavy industry, light industry, construction industry and other industries are developed and on the right track, then the growth rate is as fast as flying, and it is normal to grow twenty or thirty points per year, but it is also at that moment, if there is no external blood transfusion, continuous internal friction will only become more and more scarce." ”

And now Fan Zhongyan is no longer able to give the Liao army a chance to burn his grain and grass - the Liao army can't even get out of the city, let alone grain and grass, and the edge of the camp can't be touched.

Whoever wins, they help whom, this is a constant truth since ancient times.

"Well, the effect is still very obvious, but I estimate that it will be a little unoptimistic from the first half of next year."

Moreover, even the Song army in Yunzhou was already engaged with the Liao army in Datong, and the offensive on both sides was in full swing, and the progress was very rapid.

This is because the end of each year is the time to sum up the work of the previous 10 months, including this year's administration, the reports of various departments this year, the development of various fields, the surplus of fiscal expenditures, and so on.

Therefore, Fan Zhongyan often needed to screen these messages, and combine them with the intelligence detected by the Song army's own scouts to make his own judgment.

After all, at this time, the Xijin Mansion was very strictly investigated by the principle of the war bureaucracy, except for the movement between Liu Siduan and Liu Liufu's brothers, which was not easy to arouse suspicion, the rest of the ministers would often be investigated if they had any changes.

They were mostly stationed in Guihua, Khan, Shunzhou, Danzhou, Jingzhou, Jizhou and other prefectures and counties behind Xijin Prefecture, and they were almost from Zhangjiakou in later generations to Changping, Huairou, Miyun, Sanhe and other areas in Beijing, and were in the surrounding area of Xijin.

The weather was even colder in December, and because of the heavy snowfall, it was difficult for the Song army to dig trenches, and although there were also operations, the workload was much less.

At the beginning, Yelu Zongzhen chose to go to war, in order to prevent being discovered by the Song people, the first choice was to let the soldiers and horses of the headquarters rush to Xijin Mansion first, and then mobilize the teams of other ethnic groups.

This disparity in battle loss ratio is still because the Liao people have grenades, because Yanyun and other places were not so well developed at that time, with a population of about 300,000 households, about 1.5 million, and the damage to the natural environment is not serious, so there were many forests in the Yanyun area at that time.

The accumulation of so many things, big and small, coupled with the summary of the year's work at the end of the year, is obviously not such a simple thing.

"This should not shake the foundation, now the construction of brick factories and cement factories everywhere in the commercial firms, Gyeonggi Road alone this year there are more than 300 enterprises registered, once the money is used, the economy will accelerate circulation, it is estimated that domestic commerce will be more prosperous."

Then came the various official exchanges.

Yelu Zongzhen had actually sensed the problem of people's hearts fluctuating, so after consulting with Zhang Jian and other important confidants, he made certain military adjustments.

As he spoke, he suddenly remembered something, slapped his head and said, "By the way, since the first industrial revolution has appeared, it's almost time to start paper money." We need to start improving the monetary system and determining the value of money, otherwise copper coins and jiaozi alone will hinder the development of commerce. ”

Xia Zhu, who is in charge of finance, has just finished the affairs of his headquarters, because he has been staring at the financial affairs, and almost every month's expenditure and income have to be summarized, so the original cumbersome finances have been sorted out first, and it is obvious that this year's growth is still quite good.

The transaction of one or two hundred guan will definitely not use Jiaozi, but two hundred guan is close to 16,000 copper coins, and the weight is about 1,400 catties.

At the beginning of October, the Song army defeated the Western Xia, encroached on the Western Xia Zhuoluo and Nan and other regions, and beat Li Yuanhao to retreat in Xingqing Mansion and did not dare to take the lead.

However, the number of soldiers and horses of the Liao army increased dramatically, and the Song army also increased its troops.

"Indeed, although the people in their daily life are still dominated by copper coins, only when there is a large transaction, there will be a Jiaozi guaranteed by Jiaozi as a transaction, but the kind of medium transactions of dozens or even hundreds of yuan, now the market is very in demand, but with dozens of hundreds of yuan, it is still very inconvenient."

If there is no road to Zhangjiakou, the Liao people can drive cattle and sheep from the Mongolian steppe in the north, I am afraid that there will be a shortage of food in Xijin at this time.

The Northwest Army immediately began to mobilize on a large scale, plus the Central Army, almost half of the more than 600,000 forbidden army troops of the Great Song Dynasty gathered in Yanyun, Fan Zhongyan alone had more than 200,000 in his hands, and the remaining 780,000 or so were on Hedong Road, and they were storming Datong.

In the early morning of this day, many prime ministers in the Constitutional Yuan were in full swing after the morning dynasty, and a total of 11 prime ministers were in the office, including Zhao Jun, Yan Shu, Cai Qi, Song Shou, Li Di, Jia Changchao, Jiang Tang, Zhang Shixun, Xia Zhu, Zheng Jian, and Du Yan.

However, Fan Zhongyan did not fully trust these messages, because these messages themselves are fraudulent and non-time-sensitive, and some of them are even deliberately released by the Liao army, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false.

Therefore, at this moment, the number of troops of the Liao army is unprecedentedly large, but the corresponding pressure on grain and grass is also very large. The grain and grass in Liaodong have not been able to be transported, and the result is a rapid decrease in food.

Zhao Jun also smiled and said: "After entering the industrial society, everything will develop much faster, this is just the beginning, and when the second industrial revolution is completed, you will know what is the miracle speed of flying." ”

Judging from the minimum central fiscal revenue of 110 million yuan, it is at least 9% higher than last year. This is still the revenue of the central government, and if we include the fiscal revenue withheld by the local governments, I am afraid that the total revenue this year will exceed 150 million yuan.

"I have read the official document of the Ministry of Railways, and this year's railway task has been completed quite smoothly, and it has been repaired to Yexian, and it is expected to be repaired to Xiangyang by the end of next year or the end of the year after that."

After Yan Shu finished reading the work reported by the newly established Ministry of Railways this year, he raised his head to look at Zhao Jun and said with a smile: "We are building at a speed of more than 20 kilometers every month, and in my lifetime, maybe the old man can also take a train." ”

This kind of work efficiency is actually very low, after all, there are a lot of affairs of a country, even if the current scope of government affairs of the Constitutional Yuan is only the ministries and roads, and the state level and the county level are often handled by various departments, but the volume of a country is here.

The deposit of each Jiaozi must be at least 500 yuan, and each application is often a commodity transaction, which is not popular among the people.

Jiaozi said that it was paper money, but in essence, it was actually a bank bill or a large check.

One of the most gratifying things is that a few days ago, the steamship finally succeeded and is about to start trial operation.

Obviously, the Great Song Dynasty will step onto a new level.

(End of chapter)