I still don’t understand, so no one gradually called for the cannon.

The drought continues, but no one still notices it.

After the examination, Li Jue submitted a memorial.

The high price of grain hurts the people, and the low price of grain hurts the farmers. The state guides rivers and canals, and transports grain from all over the world to the capital. The accumulation of more and more, the warehouses are filled with red dew and rotten, and the old and old are related. They have to reward them, but they cannot be rewarded, so they have to deal with the sale. Even a dou of beans is only sold for ten cents. The reward is only a few gulps, but they can only be given a few gulps in a month. Can they be eaten? Or they sell them to the people of the capital, which is equivalent to using this cheap grain to support millions of people in disguise. , the idle people. But how difficult it is to transport these grains to the capital? It is to reach the Three Gorges in the west, Jinghu in the Antarctic, and Jiangwu in the south, and to Zhejiang in the right side. After the dangers of wind and waves, it is only after the Jian'an army, Chu, Si, and Bian River, and then to the capital. Not to mention how poor the farmers' income has become, it is how pitiful it is for the people on the way, as well as the soldiers of the army (the soldiers who escort the grain) who leave the countryside and live in the world. How pitiful it is for them to leave the countryside and live in the world?

In fact, Song Jiu was also regulating this issue when he was in the Three Departments.

But there has never been a good solution. For example, if the tax and grain of Bashu are not suitable, they have to use silk to replace taxes. As a result, the price of silk in Bashu is strong, and some smart merchants sell silk to Bashu and then transport it back into taxes... This makes people speechless.

However, the imperial court must not dispel taxes from Bashu. If silk is not collected, will the grain be collected? Will the grass be collected be collected? Will it be collected be collected? A bunch of grass is transported from Chengdu to the Yangtze River along the Three Gorges and the Bian River to the capital? Then when you arrive in the capital, is it grass or golden grass? Or if you collect money, is the money enough for circulation?

Therefore, Song Jiu has no good solution.

It happened that Zhao Pu had not yet entered the Secretariat of the Central Secretariat, so he issued several orders with Li Fang's acquiescent approval, encouraging officials from various prefectures in Bashu to reward the people for planting mulberry and planting hemp.

Then, the impulse to hold Zhao Kuangyi to build a temple pagoda the year before yesterday, and even forbidden the court to cast related bronze ware. He minted coins in large quantities, and then minted more than 7 million copper coins in total. He also asked Jinpu Yane to invest in and increase shares. Jinpu's fixed assets increased. Let's continue to take out the capital and issue nearly 20 million scattered Jiaozi. In fact, it is equivalent to increasing the amount of money in disguise.

But this is a temporary solution.

If there is insufficient copper and insufficient copper coins, I dare not issue additional Jiaozi.

As for planting mulberry and hemp, can it completely solve the disadvantages of Bashu silk? How much mulberry and hemp can be planted to meet the needs of paying taxes to the court?

The same is true in other places. You don’t need to pay taxes, so what should you use to pay taxes?

Song Jiu made some adjustments, but his military system reform alone saved a lot of food and grass, and he also had a bumper harvest year after year. As a result, the grain storage in the capital accumulated more and more, and Song Jiu had no choice but to do so.

So Li Jue thought of a solution.

Since it is too unfair to farmers, the price of grain has to be raised, and a dou of beans has increased to twenty cents. With this money, the army escorted grain lords and the lords gave two liters of rice in the past, and now they can give 300 yuan. People are happy. The army in the city can take out and sell it because of too much grain reward, and the garrison can take out and sell it. This is no less than giving more money to soldiers, and the soldiers will be happy. The price of grain rises and the appreciation of the government's grain storage can also make a profit. It only rises to one dou of twenty cents. The people will not be unbearable, and farmers will benefit.

But it is easy to say and difficult to do.

This is decided by the market. If the court wants to rise to twenty cents, it can rise to twenty cents?

Zhao Kuangyi admired this memorial very much. It is indeed too hard for farmers to work hard for others. He worked hard for a year, and the family had dozens of acres of land. He worked so hard to pay taxes. In addition to his family, he could have twenty or thirty stones of surplus grain, even if it was not good. However, one stone of grain was not enough, how much could these stored grain be sold? What can I do if I had two or three coins of money? It turned out that there was still cotton, but now the price of cotton cloth is getting worse and worse. Even the officials below didn't like to pay taxes with cotton cloth to avoid the court's deficit. The low grain was really too harmful to farmers.

Therefore, officials from the two governments, three departments and two systems censors were invited to the Political Affairs Hall to discuss.

Everyone is worried about it.

Wang Xian stumbled and said, "It turns out that a good harvest is not a good thing?"

Some people also say that they are brewing wine, but everyone rolls their eyes together. Make wine. Can the people in the capital not eat and drink wine?

Song Jiu said: "This year seems a bit dry. Since ancient times, things are rare and expensive. If there is too much food, it will fall. There is no other good strategy. If you really want to solve it, there is only one way. The grain in Guanzhong will not be mobilized to the capital for the time being. The grain in Jianghuai, Jinghu and Zhejiang will be transported to the north, but will not be transported to the capital, but will be transported to Hebei. Officials will be sent to observe the situation of the grain hoarding in each state, and the people will be stored as appropriate in each state warehouse. The grain in the capital will be transported to Hedong and hoarded as appropriate. The price of the capital is the national price vane. Summer grain gradually rises, but new grain will not enter the capital, and the old grain will gradually come out of Hedong. The grain storage in the capital will be greatly reduced, and there is no need for national dispatch.

The price will gradually become more expensive. Since ancient times, the country has believed that natural disasters and man-made disasters and wars require nine years of grain storage. It is also prepared, only partly in the local area and partly in the capital. Although the local greed will be more serious. If the price of grain is high, it can be dispatched to the capital. The round-trip relief will naturally stabilize. Moreover, if there is a disaster and the state treasury has grain, it can be immediately provided to save the cost of back and forth transportation, which will also make up for the greed of some bad local clerks. Furthermore, the chief officer of the Third Department needs to be held at his discretion. If the grain storage is abundant, local officials can be ordered to use other things as taxes, or even gold and silver as taxes, then they can be used directly to pay the salaries of officials and military salaries."

It is a solution.

However, for such "macro" regulation, officials now do not have the economic mind, so there will be many troubles to continue to implement it.

But the food is really too cheap. When the Tang Dynasty was cheap and the money was more expensive than the Song Dynasty, a dou of millet was sold for four or five cents, which was the year of great governance. Now a dou of beans is only sold for ten cents, how cheap is the grain?

Therefore, Song Jiu laughed at himself again: "Your Majesty, although the peasants suffer a little, if there is no war, at least the people will not starve to death because of the high food."

Everyone couldn't help but smile bitterly together.

Zhao Kuangyi said: "Just do it like this."

It is the top priority. The rare two governments and three ministries united together and worked together to deal with this matter. Even though the big-mouthed Tianxi saw that the grain price finally slowly rose, he made a memorial again. He had long been doing this, and the generals and ministers were in harmony. The country was prosperous, and see what the two governments had become!

Zhao Pu treats Tian Xi as a psychopath.

Song Jiu believed that Tian Xi was a scholar.

In fact, even Zhao Kuangyi was regretting. If the two of them did not have conflicts and united with each other, with their talents, how lucky would the country be?

But it’s just an unsolvable problem. I’m sorry to convince Zhao Pu. If you use the old minister, you have to tolerate the old minister’s shortcomings. Convince Song Jiu, what, let me give in. I didn’t do it like Zhao Pu, it would be nice to give in. I’d rather give in?

So Zhao Kuangyi came to these two people together, and couldn't help but feel sad...

The two continued to do their own things.

Zhao Pu carefully managed the country. No one underestimated him. At the beginning, he looked at Song Qi and Li Fang, and they took office one after another.

This time he was optimistic about Lu Mengzheng again. Lu Mengzheng's spring finally arrived. Even Zhao Yuanxi wanted to take over the throne and acted, but it was not safe to win over Zhao Pu. After all, Zhao Pu was old, so he secretly wooed Lu Mengzheng. Zhao Pu was fake, and Lu Mengzheng was really wooed by him.

Zhao Pu also turned a blind eye to this.

Even Zhao Pu found Kou Zhun on Baidu in Zhongfang and transferred him to the capital. He praised him greatly, so he made Zhao Kuangyi become a direct scholar of the Privy Councilor. Even after hearing that Kou Zhun's first wife, Xu, died, Zhao Kuangyi personally gave the marriage and married Queen Song's sister to Kou Zhun.

Some people say that Xiao Kou's fate is not good, but he is actually wrong. He is really lucky. He is just a child of a small official, and he is appreciated by Xu Zhongxuan. If he marry his daughter to him, Xu Zhongxuan is no worse than Lao Song. He is also a famous minister of the Song Dynasty and a high-ranking official of his generation, he is not far from entering the two palaces. The second wife is Lao Song's daughter. With these two marriages alone, she has gained countless connections and successfully entered the quasi-rich family.

But now Xiao Kou is a little depressed. Song Jiu and Zhao Pu are incompatible. He is appreciated by both of them at the same time. What should I do?

I thought about it too much, it was not yet time for him to enter the whirlpool performance.

At the same time, Zhao Pu also praised Zhang Qixian very much. Even though he knew that Zhang Qixian had a tacit relationship with Song Jiu, he also recommended it repeatedly, which made Song Jiu hate and fear when he looked at this gray-haired old guy.

Song Jiu is also doing his own thing.

After the Battle of Tanghe, Yizhou failed and could not be fought back for the time being.

Then the Polu Army was at the forefront, and Liangmen (Jingrong Army City, now Xushui, Hebei) and Suicheng became the top priority.

Li Jilong recommended Wei Neng, but Song Jiu was not very clear, and in fact he was speechless. Because later generations tried their best to devil the Song Dynasty, the deeds of the Song Dynasty's martial arts were not widely known. Song Jiu's poor golden fingers were still obtained by reading unreliable channels such as fictional novels or TV series. He didn't know before he saw it, and even if he saw it, it might not be accurate. So Tian Min didn't know, Wei Neng didn't know, Jing Si didn't know...

But Li Jilong recommended that he might be Tian Min again, so Song Jiu agreed.

However, the other person was appointed by Song Jiu. He had a great victory in the front and sent people to take advantage of the empty Liao army in Liaodong to land directly from the Liaodong Peninsula and transfer Yang Yanzhao back to Liaodong. As for the famous general in history, Shi Pu, he continued to stay in Liaodong. He did not dare to let go, and the rest of the generals dared not let go. At least now is not the time to come back.

There is one advantage in running back and forth. Many terrains in Liaodong gradually became clear. But after running a lot, the Liao Kingdom was also alert. When Yang Yanzhao came back, he was discovered by the Liao people. Fortunately, he was not far from the sea and there were not many Liao soldiers encircled and suppressed. Later, there was a place with a population of people in Dalian, which allowed Yang Yanzhao to break out of the siege and board the ship.

But the Liao Kingdom had no choice.

Their ship technology is backward, how can they prevent the long coastline?

Yang Yanzhao immediately landed from Cangzhou and went to Suicheng.

In fact, the dazzling star of Hebei at this time is unimaginable. Li Jilong, Jing Si, Li Jixuan, Yin Jilun, Tian Min, Wei Neng, Yang Yanzhao, Yuan Jizhong, Fan Yanzhao, Kong Shouzheng, Sun Quanzhao, the army of the defeated army... Maybe even Cui Yanjin had to stand back, at least compared to these "desperate", Cui Yanjin was far inferior to that of his bravery.

Therefore, Li Zicheng later regarded himself as the descendant of Li Jiqian.

It is not easy to make a living and grow stronger with these desperate people.

Song Jiu was wiped out in time, and in a few years, Li Jiqian gradually matured in military affairs. Even if he sent out a 100,000 army to clear it out, he might not succeed. Although he was so young when he started his business, Song Jiu also knew vaguely, but he didn't know it, and underestimated Li Jiqian's ability. Perhaps in this time and space, Li Jiqian would be underestimated.

There is actually another person, Wang Xian. Just under Song Jiu's eyes, Song Jiu also underestimated it.

Then he asked the general Hu Tingzan to go to Baozhou under the Weilu Army. The city walls were in Baozhou.

In addition to dispatching generals, he also dispatched troops.

The northwest side was similar to what Song Jiu thought, but it was worse than the imperial court.

The court did a good job. Not only did the trade route benefit everyone, but it also let go of salt profits, and also taught the local people to raise livestock and increase their income. However, some rebellions occurred one after another. However, without the leadership of the great founding emperor of the Western Xia Dynasty, Li Jiqian, it was not the same as the weather and was quickly suppressed.

However, over time, it is very beneficial to integration, especially to encourage the measures of joining the Qiang and Han ties, as well as to settle down in captivity, and some people who moved to the Zhewang family, some tribes close to the Song Dynasty fled from the Jiashan area of ​​the Liao Kingdom, and successively divided into various oasis in Nanhetao. With them, they have somewhat restricted the powerful forces in the Defence and some remaining forces in Li Jiqian's remaining troops on the Gobi Desert.

What the court saw was a sad side. What should we do if it was so difficult to cultivate. Song Jiu saw was a gratifying side, at least better than a Great Xia Kingdom standing in the northwest.

Because the northwest has not settled, Yin Xian continued to stay in the northwest. He then re-transfers Tian Renlang and Wang Fu to the northwest. After Song Jiu reminds that the two of them were not placed in one place. In addition to these three, there are also Zhai Shousu, Liu Yong, Zhang Ning, Zheng Wenbao, and Yang Qiong. Some of them can fight, while others cannot fight, but because they are not powerful enemies, it is difficult to distinguish.

Among them, Yang Qiong is the oldest, and he is the one who is in charge of training cavalry.

It takes a long time for a cavalry to form. It is not like Song Jiu, who can only ride on horseback, but also ride on horseback to fight, fight, shoot archery, and cooperate with each other.

However, the soldiers consumed a huge amount of imprisonment and the number of imprisonment was insufficient. The more this happened, the more imprisonment was needed in the capital, and the more tense the front line troops would be.

Song Jiu thought about it and finally informed Yang Qiong, you should pick up a cavalry that can be passed by. Whether it is the forbidden soldiers or the forbidden soldiers, the forbidden soldiers must be soldiers whose family members have moved to the capital or near the capital, otherwise they will not want to fight when they come to Hebei.

I have a little impression of Song Jiu, a foreign soldier in the northwest of history, that is, the majesty of the foreign soldiers during the victory at Kunlun Pass.

But when Tong Guan went on the Northern Expedition, he was the strongest Western army, and there were also foreign cavalry, but he was defeated. It cannot be said that Tong Guan was not good. It was him and the generals who conquered Qinghai and once opened the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty to Xinjiang. It cannot be said that the land was not suitable for the land. Is it more evil than the land of Lingnan? Or that the wars were exhausted and the soldiers fought for years, just a battle? Isn’t it more tired than the battles in Xixia? Or that the founder of the Western Liao Dynasty, Yelu Dashi, was too awesome, so he was defeated.

Song Jiu was not very clear about the reason, so Song Jiu was somewhat skeptical about the combat effectiveness of this foreign soldier when he went to Hedong, Hebei. But I believe that it would not be worse than that of the Song Dynasty soldiers and infantry. However, there is another problem: individuals are useless and they must be powerful as a whole to exert their combat effectiveness. For example, Li Jilong's subordinates really fight alone, and one can compete with five or six Liao cavalry? This also requires the command ability, morale, and their respective military disciplines and formations.

But this will give Hebei generals a headache.

After the order was issued, Yang Qiong selected more than 4,000 Han cavalry and more than 5,000 Fan Qiang cavalry, led by Zhang Ning and arrived in Hebei.

It is gold that will eventually shine, such as Wang Chao, who was under Pan Mei's subordinates in Hedong, gradually performed well.

Zhang Ning was brave and brave. When Zhang Mei saw Hou Zhuanzhi in Cangzhou, she summoned her to the tent and was brought to the vassal residence by Zhao Kuangyi to serve as a personal guard. However, no one, including Zhao Kuangyi, was very interested. However, he was Zhao Kuangyi's man, so he was appointed as the commander in front of the palace and was transferred to the northwest to cooperate with Yang Qiong to train cavalry soldiers. Only then did Yang Qiong see his talents, and he was also from the emperor's personal guard, so he asked him to lead these ten thousand cavalry to Hebei.

In fact, Yang Qiong himself can fight, and Song Jiu has not noticed that Yang Si, the younger brother of Yang Xin, who is the chief supervisor of Gaoyang Pass, who is still in Gaoyang Pass.

Cao Bin's son Cao Can had a good relationship with him and was in Hebei. He performed well, but did not meet Song Jiu's requirements. So Song Jiu paid attention to Xiaoxiao Cao and Cao Wei. He was too young to be cultivated at all. However, he noticed Xiaoxiao Cao, but did not notice Gao Qiong's eldest son Gao Jixun.

In fact, during this period of time, there were many powerful generals in the Song Dynasty, but it was a pity that the court did not use them well.

Song Jiu was deliberately observing, but he didn't know, so he could only really observe, so he was slow to discover it, and even didn't pay much attention to Sun Quanzhao, including Zhang Ning and Yang Qiong's recommendation, Hebei, which was only in charge of the Tianxiong Army. The Tianxiong Army was located in the west of Bazhou, with dense rivers and swamps, and it was not the first choice for the Liao Kingdom to invade, nor the main war zone.

But then again, it is enough to be the general.

And with the arrival of 10,000 cavalry, although the defense zones are being divided up, it has somewhat increased the strength of the front line.
Chapter completed!