On February 15th, the second year of Yuanyou, Zhao Xu woke up from the inner bedroom of Baoci Palace. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Feng Jing appearing outside the curtain.

"Feng Jing, is there anything wrong?" Zhao Xu asked.

"I'll tell you all..." Feng Jing's voice answered outside the curtain: "The minister of Dengzhou was urgently reported, saying that the Goryeo monks were in charge of the official Yitian, and under the order of the Goryeo king, they appeared outside the sea of ​​Dengzhou..."

"Beg for the court...beg to see Your Majesty..."

Zhao Xu smiled: "The Goryeo is finally here."

Zhao Xu was not surprised by this.

After all, it is already spring, and as the snow on the peninsula melts, the cold wind disappears.

Just wait until the sky is clear and the ground is dry, and the army can unfold.

The Liao soldiers may leave Pyongyang and go south along the Datong River to take Kaijing directly.

As early as March, as late as April, the battle to open Beijing will surely begin!

In this case, the Koreans will naturally try their best to ask for help.

But, for Zhao Xu's Song Dynasty, whether to save Goryeo or not? How to save it? It needs to be thought about it carefully.

Zhao Xu got up from the bed and ordered: "Let's go and inform the Ministry of Rites, and send people to Dengzhou to welcome the Goryeo delegation!"

"By the way, let's check the battle situation between the Goryeo and the Liao people."

Although Zhao Xu is now able to know about the progress of the war between the Liao Kingdom and Goryeo through Yelu Ju and other Liao nobles.

However, Yelu Ju and others were just heard from others.

What they could know was that after the Liao army captured Pyongyang, they marched southward. The vanguard once reached the periphery of Kaijing and fought several encounters with the Goryeo defenders. Then they retreated from the entire line because it began to snow on the peninsula.

The other details are basically unclear.

Especially the Liao Kingdom's military strategy and deployment on the peninsula were unaware of it.

This is deadly.

Without knowing the details of the war and the development of the situation, how did the Song Dynasty take away the fire?

Therefore, verifying the relevant details through another party has become Zhao Xu's choice.

Of course...

Just listen to the words of the Goryeo people, and you must not believe them all.

Feng Jing received the decree, left Baoci Palace and went to Neidong Gate, found Guo Zhongxiao, and surrendered the decree.

...

After Zhao Xu got up, after washing up, he went to the Xihezhong of Baoci Palace and asked Empress Dowager Xiang for peace.

The mother and son immediately went to the Qingshou Palace to greet each other. After completing this obligation, Zhao Xu returned to Funing Palace.

Today is the Spring Equinox, and after today, the imperial lecture will be reopened.

In other words, Zhao Xu has started school and has to return to his life of listening to the sutras every three days.

Back at the Funing Palace, Wen Xunniang, Di Qiang and Meng Qingqing, the three girls, had already brought their people to clean and organize inside and outside the hall.

They each divided their own labor and were able to help Zhao Xu deal with many life matters as decently.

Seeing them doing things seriously, Zhao Xu nodded slightly.

At this time, Feng Jing, who had gone to the Nei East Gate, who had visited the Nei East Gate, came back.

Behind him, follow Liu Weijian.

"I'm going to greet everyone." Liu Weijian came to Zhao Xu and kowtowed to greet everyone seriously.

"Please get up quickly by the old commander." Zhao Xu hurriedly asked Feng Jing to help him up.

Liu Weijian stood up and said, "According to the will of the old slave, I have already communicated with the left some of the ministers who are specialized in the Goushi!"

"Good!" Zhao Xu stroked his hands.

Then he asked about the conversation between Liu Weijian and Lu Gongzhu yesterday.

After learning that Lu Gongzhu had fully understood the business situation and profits of the Beijing Municipal Corporation.

Zhao Xu said: "Let's see if the left prime minister is flexible enough!"

If Lu Gongzhe could be as sensible as Han Jiang, then Zhao Xu would give him greater authority and allow him to participate more deeply in Zhao Xu's core circle.

If not...

Then he can only stop there.

The prime minister who cannot keep up with the tide of the times can only be abandoned.

At worst, I can stop looking!

This is not a great thing.

In the Song Dynasty, it was common to dismiss the priest.

Emperors like Zhao Xu who have been working hard to ensure the stability of the capital structure and reduce turmoil have never appeared in the history of the Song Dynasty.

...

Mr. Lu stood under the Neidong Gate.

He was nervous and nervous.

Because today is a big test.

He knows it!

He understood this from the time he learned the secrets in Taifu Temple yesterday and saw the account books of the Beijing Municipal Government.

This is a test.

Tests about loyalty, about obedience.

He let out a sigh of relief, remembering the details of the revenue and expenditure accounts calculated in the Taifu Temple yesterday, under the witness of Liu Weijian.

By verifying the accounts details of the companies, Lu Gongzhu could clearly see a fact.

That is - all the old laws in Jingchangfang are still operating.

Basically all of them are losing money.

The most powerful loss is that the Bianjing Changquan closed its position.

Not only the Ministry of Revenue has to allocate money to subsidize subsidies, but the pile sealing warehouse also needs to spend millions of chunks every year to subsidize the often-closed quota purchases.

Only in this way can the grain prices be stabilized and the people of Bianjing can eat a hundred coins per dou of rice.

In contrast, in the eighth year of Yuanfeng, Santanchang suffered a year-round loss of 380,000 yuan.

This is because Santanchang also shoulders the mission of calming the fuel prices in Bianjing and subsidizing carbonaceous.

The carbon price of Bianjing worth 60 quotas has not changed since Xining!

The price of the three carbon yards is only fifty, which is almost the same as the price in the carbohydrate production area!

In other words, these carboniferous courts not only purchased at their own expense, but also transported them to Bianjing at their own expense, and then wholesale them to Beijing foot vendors at the price of the place of origin.

It would be strange if you don’t lose!

However, this situation began to reverse in the second half of last year.

Especially after September, Santanchang began to turn losses into profits.

After winter comes, you will make a lot of money!

After one winter, I successfully reversed my losses and made a slight surplus of more than 10,000 yuan!

The people of Bianjing have no complaints yet.

At least, Lu Gongzhu has never heard of it.

How did this be done?

Liu Weijian said that it was "the lord has good management and the sages are good, so the people benefited and the court benefited."

I continued to ask and found out, but it was because Santan Farm started in September and no longer sold charcoal and foot merchants directly.

Instead, they started selling their "honeycomb coal".

Santan Farm relied on honeycomb coal and made 300,000 pounds in one winter, directly filling in the losses in the first half of the year and achieving profitability.

To be honest, Lu Gongzhu was shocked after learning about this.

Because he had never heard of any honeycomb coal before.

This is normal - the wealthy and noble families in the Song Dynasty used charcoal to keep warm.

The families of important officials who are on duty are directly using the best charcoal issued by the court!

For example, at the level of the priest, you can receive 1,200 bundles of firewood and 200 pounds of charcoal every month [Jiayou Lu Order Regulations].

In such a situation, naturally, these high-ranking figures would not care about the fuel situation among the people at all.
To be continued...