In fact, Zhao Guangmei and Zhao Kuangyin were both talking and playing. Money is not much for the country, but in fact, for Zhao Guangmei personally, it is useless.

Even if Zhao Kuangyin didn't distinguish this money, he would definitely have to be used for the imperial guards. In fact, making money was never Zhao Guangmei's purpose. Reforming the military expenditure system of the Northern Song Dynasty was Zhao Guangmei's real and fundamental purpose. The pergola was just his attempt.

Zhao Kuangyin was actually just talking and calculating the accounts. Sun Liancheng tactfully stepped aside. While watching the show performing storytelling on stage, Zhao Kuangyin asked with a smile intentionally or unintentionally: "You are trying to do these things, just pointing at the yard."

Zhao Guangmei still smiled and admitted, "Brother is Big Brother. What I want to do, you can tell at a glance, Brother, you will sooner or later in the yard, right? You do your job and change yours, I will be responsible for checking for you for the omissions and filling in the gaps. Don't worry, all my reforms must be based on your major policies and will never make trouble for you."

"hehe"

Zhao Kuangyin smiled and ignored it, just said, "You are still so honest and dare to touch such sensitive things. Don't talk about this here. Let's go to my mother's place to have dinner with me tonight."

"good."

The military issues of the Northern Song Dynasty were often financial issues, or military expenditure issues.

During the Five Dynasties, the military expenditure of the army did not all come from financial appropriations. The army had factories, which were called the yard. The main business of this yard was to make and repair armor, weapons and other arms. The main practitioners were family members and veterans in the military camp. However, in addition to their main business, they often involved a little bit of other side jobs. Do you make money?

Whether it is the Jiedu Army or the Imperial Army, they are actually doing business by themselves. To a large extent, these armies have certain abilities to support themselves, otherwise civil servants would not have no means to suppress the army.

Zhao Guangmei, who had a certain understanding of the history of the early Song Dynasty, knew that Zhao Kuangyin would soon cut the reform knife on the courtyard. In the military reform of the early Song Dynasty, a very important one was that Zhao Kuangyin stipulated that the imperial guards' courtyard would not be allowed to make profits in the future. Even if there was a "envious remnant" in the courtyard, Zhao Kuangyin would punish the person in charge of the courtyard.

I have to say that this actually makes sense. The obvious reason is that this breeds corruption space. In fact, the corruption space is indeed very large. It is no exaggeration to say that all the officials in the Songchu Courtyard were taken out in the name of corruption, and one by one was beheaded, so as to ensure that no one was wronged.

The deep-seated reason is to compete with the people for profit, because the army does not pay taxes when doing business, or it only pays a little in name, which is completely symbolic. If you have the intention, which tax collector dares to check taxes in the army?

The army is strong and does not pay taxes. The people can't play any business that the army likes. This is a big deal.

Of course, the most fundamental reason is to limit the army's autonomy. If the army has no money, it is natural to listen to civil servants. Otherwise, your army will have money and the emperor will not be able to sleep well.

Zhao Guangmei also felt that the eldest brother was doing the right thing, but I have to say that this approach is still too rough and has great side effects.

In this way, the army could only rely on the national financial allocation, but the problem was that the Northern Song Dynasty was a well-known redundant soldier. The country could not afford so many soldiers, so the military pay of the soldiers could only be owed again and again, deducted again and again.

To put it bluntly, this money was not made by the army, but the country was not made by the country!

Secondly, since the courtyard is not allowed to make a profit, will the person in charge of the courtyard be greedy? Although the courtyard in the past was greedy, they would still find ways to reduce costs and increase efficiency and greedy from profits. But if you are not allowed to make a profit, you will only be greedy from costs, which will lead to the quality of the military weapons in the Northern Song Dynasty becoming worse and worse, so by the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, there were hundreds of thousands of imperial guards in name, but many soldiers, let alone armor, did not even have decent weapons in their hands.

Is there a way to control and limit the courtyards, weaken the military's financial autonomy, and prevent the army from relying too much on financial appropriations and reducing the military's combat effectiveness?

Zhao Guangmei didn't have a good method, but there were some ways to use it. For example, he earned the military pay and rewards of the soldiers into his pocket by doing business, and shared some of the functions of the courtyard, and then took out the money from his pocket and returned it to the Privy Council, and then paid it to the soldiers as military expenses.

I will also help me fight for a deposit.

Of course, this is because his brother is Zhao Kuangyin. He attaches importance to family affection, and the second is that the chaotic times of the Five Dynasties were too scary, so he had to establish a crown prince Yixian. If he had changed to other emperors and other dynasties, he really didn't dare to reach out to such a sensitive place.

In the stands, the storytelling effect was relatively average. Although everyone still listened with relish, the sound was still a little bit smaller and the venue was too loose, and the audience in the back row might still be a little unaware.

Moreover, this original version of the Three Kingdoms vernacular sounds really boring to him, and it is far less exciting than the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It even intersperses with a lot of dirty jokes and many vulgar things. Zhao Guangmei also finds it very boring when she hears it.

Zhao Kuangyin himself had read history books, and this thing didn't sound like it, so soon the two of them started chatting below.

"What are you teaching in the school studio? Why do you say that it is more profitable than the theater studio here?"

"In the morning, it is free, and everyone can listen. If you want to listen, you can leave. If you want to listen, you can leave. The retired elderly people from the army who are fine, come to teach you. They don't expect them to participate in the imperial examination, but it is always good to be able to read. By the way, some private goods will be stuffed to teach them loyalty to the emperor and patriotism."

Zhao Kuangyin nodded first and expressed his approval.

“What about the afternoon?”

"Teaching real things in the afternoon, but it also depends on their career choices. Most people are following Pan Meixue to fight in wars, and a small number of them learn some medicine, calculation, industry, and business. After all, there are still some children who are unwilling to be born in the military camp and die in the military camp for the rest of their lives. They are willing to go to the outside world. Moreover, girls will not be able to go to the battlefield in the future. Many girls learn a lot of craftsmanship. After learning these, they can marry a good family in the future. Everyone will learn, but if they don't learn, they won't get married in the future. Don't they have to collect some money, and they will accumulate a lot."

“Oh~”

Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help but sigh: "You guys are really good at doing business. A mere shed can actually make you play so many tricks and so much money. What are you going to do next?"

Zhao Guangmei did not answer, but asked back: "What are you busy with when you are doing recently?"

Zhao Kuangyin smiled and took out a coin from his pocket and said, "I'm busy with this."

"Is this...Song Yuan Tongbao?"

"Yes, Song Yuan Tongbao, our own money in Song Dynasty."

"Oh, then this is what I'm going to be busy with next."

"You did this too? What does this mean?"

Zhao Guangmei said, "Brother, please tell me first, what do you mean? What do you plan to use this Song Yuan Tongbao?"

"Of course, we confiscated the iron coins, small coins, especially southern coins on the market, and then all of them were exchanged for Song Tongbao. Humph, from then on, a single piece of Jiangnan money was not allowed to flow into the Song realm."

"Oh... Then I have to take advantage of this opportunity to buy Nantang Xiaoqian, especially in various military camps, to collect the Nanbao in the hands of the soldiers and exchange them for the Song Tongbao. In this way, when the Nantang money price increases in the future, I will be able to make another fortune."

Zhao Kuangyin was stunned and turned his head to look at Zhao Guangmei: "What do you mean? I want to ban the Nantang coins, but I think the Nantang coins will increase the price?"

"Yes, if you don't ban the Nantang coins, the Nantang coins will not be able to rise."

"You mean I can't do this?"

"Yes, you definitely can't do it."

"You fart!"
Chapter completed!