On the last day of July of the second year of Yuan Dynasty, the detailed results of the Ninth Xia Battle, which ended in the Battle of Shuichuan, were finally counted, and Zhao Lei also returned to Yan'an Prefecture to deal with the second southern invasion that Xixia could come at any time.

Yan'an Prefecture was already crowded, with more than 100,000 troops gathered in Yan'an Prefecture, stationed in several villages not far from Yan'an Prefecture, echoing each other's passive waiting for the southern invasion of Xixia.

In the Yan'an Prefecture Office, Fan Zhongyan invited the five brains of the Yan'an Prefecture garrison to discuss the troubles that had just happened.

Although Zhao Lei was in charge of all the troops on Yongxing Army Road, Fan Zhongyan served as the Yan'an Prefect, which belongs to the civil system. Although he could order Fan Zhongyan, the Yan'an Prefecture, after the war, he did not rule over each other. Therefore, he sat on both sides of the study with Fan Zhongyan. Han Qi, Guo Chengyou, Zhang Zi, and Xia Su, the commander of the Bianjing Imperial Army, whose positions in the army were only under Zhao Lei, sat under Zhao Lei.

"I heard that the economic losses on Yongxing Jun Road have been counted?" Zhao Lei and Fan Zhongyan were in charge of military affairs. After the war between Song and Xia ended, Fan Zhongyan also counted the economic losses of this war, but Zhao Lei had not seen the account yet, so he asked Fan Zhongyan casually.

"Yes! It's very miserable. Xixia is worthy of the name of evil wolf. Wherever she passes, it is a mess, and there is no chicken or dog left. The materials in the villages that were captured by Xixia were robbed by Xixia. The most heavy loss is Jinming Village. As a large village with 100,000 troops, Jinming Village has a large number of food, grass and weapons. Although a batch of villages were burned before the breakup, most of them were snatched away by the Xixia people. This time, Xixia invaded the south, and Yongxing Army lost nearly 1.8 million taels of silver. However, except for part of these things consumed by the Xixia army, the rest were taken back by the adults!" Fan Zhongyan shook his head with emotion at first. Then he looked at Zhao Lei and said with a smile.

Fan Zhongyan said it right. Most of the weapons and supplies in the Xixia robbed the land, except for part of the Yeliyuqi army left in Yan'an Prefecture, the remaining supplies of Renduo Baoren in Weijiazhai or Yuanhao in Haoshuichuan were seized by Zhao Lei. Most of these seized were spoils plundered by Xixia from the Song Dynasty.

Although many of Zhao Lei's seizures and Fan Zhongyan's losses were repeated, after all, after all, these materials were seized and lost by the Xixia army. Even if the seizures and losses were the same, Zhao Lei would not return them to Fan Zhongyan. Those seized were all credited. They were exchanged for more than 100,000 soldiers under Zhao Lei's subordinates. Before the court issued a commendation or ordered them to be returned to Yan'an Prefecture, Zhao Lei would not return any son to Fan Zhongyan.

Seeing Zhao Lei smiling and saying nothing, Fan Zhongyan knew that he would not want to get some assistance from him, so he could only wait for the imperial court orders, so he changed the subject and asked: "The detailed military battle report has also come out? I heard that the imperial court wants the emperor to offer prisoners and bring Renduo Baoren and his bodies back to Bianjing?"

"Not bad! The two great victories of Haoshuichuan and Weizhou made the officials and the court very pleased. The commendation orders have been delivered, and various rewards are still on the way. The court asked the officials to send people to send the bodies of more than 20 generals of Renduo Baoren and other Western Xia and the more than 7,000 prisoners to Bianjing. The court also agreed to his plan. Envoys have sent together Hui Feng and Ye Siluo from the northwest of Western Xia to attack Xia again, and sent 50,000 reinforcements. It is estimated that they will arrive in Yan'an Prefecture in one month." Zhao Lei explained Bianjing's orders carefully to Fan Zhongyan.

"The two great victory of Haoshuichuan and Weizhou is indeed exciting, but if this detailed battle report is leaked, there will probably not be so many people happy." Han Qi said sadly after taking out a detailed battle report and handing it to Fan Zhongyan.

Fan Zhongyan took Han Qi's battle report in confusion. After reading it, the smile on his face suddenly lost and became painful.

Although the Song and Xia confrontation this time was nominally a temporary victory in the Song Dynasty, the basis of the victory was based on the heavy losses of the Song army.

Before Zhao Lei arrived at Yan'an Prefecture, Xixia had defeated the Song army step by step, losing no less than 50,000 troops. After Zhao Lei governed all the troops on Yongxing Army Road, although Renduo Baoren was forced to abandon the village and flee in the battle of Weijiazhai, his 20,000 troops were wiped out, which brought the same number of casualties to Zhao Lei.

The results of the battle in Weizhou were even more shocking. It was like Yang Wenguang was trapped in Qingzhou. The Song army of Weizhou attack and defense also pulled all the young and strong people in Weizhou to the top of the city. Yuanhao suffered heavy losses in this battle. However, after the war, every family in Weizhou was like Qingzhou. Han Qi and Guo Chengyou suffered 20,000 casualties. The number of young and strong casualties in the Weizhou defense and the number of young and strong people in the city reached 30,000. The victory of the offensive and defensive battle in Weizhou can be said to be the Song army piled up the ground with corpses of soldiers.

In the Battle of Haoshuichuan, before Zhao Lei's ambush was released, although Han Qi's main force did not suffer much loss, the small troops responsible for blocking the Western Xia cavalry suffered heavy losses. Gao Zunping and the other two troops were almost destroyed. After the war, they gathered the defeated soldiers. Only after Zhao Lei's ambush appeared, the Western Xia army was completely defeated. Only the Xixia cavalry who broke through the desperately brought 4,000 casualties to the Song army, and there were no other large casualties, but there were countless small-scale casualties.

Ren Fu plundered many tribes of Xixia and suffered casualties. Fan Zhongyan and Ye Liyuqi's casualties in Yan'an Prefecture, the combined losses reached an astonishing 130,000.

Think about it, although the Western Xia and the Southern Invasion of Yuan Hao lost 100,000 troops, it also caused 130,000 casualties to the Song Dynasty. This victory, which was more severe than the enemy's casualties, was just a victory for political purposes. In military terms, the Song Dynasty did not gain any advantage.

However, Fan Zhongyan came over in pain, and then he felt a little relieved, because nearly half of the 130,000 losses of the Song Dynasty came from the losses of the people in Qingzhou and Weizhou, while the elites from Bianjing and border troops in the Song Dynasty did not suffer much loss. The 100,000 troops lost by Yuanhao of Xixia this time invasion were all the elites of Xiping Prefecture and Xingqing Prefecture. If these factors were compared, this victory was still gratifying.

"But the trouble after victory finally came?" After Fan Zhongyan digested the pain caused by the war report, Zhao Lei finally mentioned that Fan Zhongyan invited them to come.

"Yes! The trouble has finally come. The imperial court has once again shortage of money, and there is no extra money to support the war on the front line." Fan Zhongyan sighed and said to everyone in the room.

"The money is short! The court has no money? How is it possible! Ye Qingchen has hundreds of millions of real money and silver in his hands, how can he have no money?" Guo Chengyou immediately asked in shock when he heard Fan Zhongyan's words.

There are only Zhao Lei, Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi, who are the three civil servants, who are known about Qian Huang, and the other people are the first time they have heard of Qian Huang. It is inevitable that they are shocked.

"Just as General Guo said, Ye Qingchen's three yamen have money, and there are still a lot of them, but those are real gold, and there are very few silver, and copper coins are so scarce that they need to be used for them!" Fan Zhongyan replied with a wry smile.

Fan Zhongyan said so clearly that everyone understood that the court had a silver and copper shortage now, not a real money shortage.

However, the silver and copper decay is not inferior to the money decay. You should know that the currency of the Song Dynasty has always been dominated by copper coins. Gold and silver are auxiliary currencies for large-scale transactions. It is rarely used, and they are all things controlled by rich people. However, the rich people in the Song Dynasty were only one percent, so copper coins were the main pillars supporting the economy of the Song Dynasty. The copper decay had exploded a few years ago. That time, the officials and the court used salt tea as an excuse to use thunder to eliminate the salt tea borers. Thus, they successfully survived the crisis. Later, Zhao Lei established the logistics yamen in the new army. He also found several large mines, which greatly alleviated the court's name.

The crisis of money shortage, but the richer the country, the easier it is to break out of this money shortage. The crisis of money shortage has always been with the Song Dynasty and has never disappeared. In this battle of Song and Xia, too much manpower and material resources were invested in the imperial court. The restoration of the former Yellow River road far away in Hebei has reached the end of the construction period, and money is even more like flowing water. In recent years, the wealth of the Ministry of Revenue has made the imperial court squander generously. Various reasons have combined, so the benefits brought by the salt and tea cleaning and the Luzon Fight have been squandered a lot in a short time. Now the court has only a bunch of gold with high value. Silver and copper coins are not enough to make ends meet, and money shortage is started again.

"In other words, the rewards that the court said this time might be empty?" Xia Sui asked anxiously.

Several generals attached great importance to the upcoming rewards of the court. You should know why the soldiers under them tried their best to kill the enemy. Isn’t it just promotion? Of course, all the generals were promoted, but if there was no wealth, the result of the soldiers’ mutiny was very likely. How could these generals not be anxious?

"How can the imperial court's reward become empty when the victory in the northwest? Now the imperial court's reward has probably reached Jingzhao Mansion and will soon be able to come to Yan'an Mansion, but the reward method may have changed!" Fan Zhongyan smiled slightly and comforted the military bosses in the room and said.

"Change?" Zhang Zi, who had a little thin figure, but had a smart and capable face, asked Fan Zhongyan in confusion.

Han Qi, who knew the inside story, then answered the confusion of Fan Zhongyan and said, "It's very simple! The court has given two reward methods. This time, the reward was 20,000 taels of gold and a lot of silk cloth. The grain from the Yan'an Prefecture's official warehouse will also be transported out to reward the soldiers. However, 20,000 taels of gold and cloth can only be chosen one!"

Han Qi's words made the three people who were ignorant of the inside and then smiled bitterly at the same time.

Gold and cloth and grain were both one of the types of currency in exchange value of the Song Dynasty, but these things have their own shortcomings. Gold is too expensive and has too high value. Unless it is a big deal, no one will use this precious metal currency, and it is even more impossible to reward the army stationed in Yan'an Prefecture. You should know that the minimum unit of gold is one qian, but one qian of gold is equal to one liang of silver. If you use this precious metal to reward the army with more than one 100,000, how to distribute it becomes the biggest problem.

Although cloth grain is also a kind of currency, since the founding of the Song Dynasty, there has been no longer any food shortage since the popularization of Chameng rice. The high price of food and low prices has made the food price extremely low. A stone of rice was sold at a low price of 300 ci, and the highest price was only 600 ci, which usually fluctuated around 500 ci. Now that money is short, the purchasing power of silver will definitely increase, and then the price of grain will be even cheaper. The same is true for cloth. If the grain cloth is not silver, there will definitely be soldiers who are dissatisfied. Choose either of these two things to meet the needs of soldiers!

When Guo Chengyou, Zhang Zi and Xia Sui looked embarrassed, Zhao Lei smiled slightly and said that he had already thought of a solution.

"You don't have to make things difficult for a few generals! In fact, this kind of thing is easy to solve. There is a shortage of money in the imperial court, and the people will not lack it. Although gold, grain and cloth cannot meet the needs of the army, it can meet the needs of the people! There are so many wealthy people in the eight states on Yongxing Jun Road, who doesn't have some silver money at home? For gold exchange for silver and silver exchange for money, it's only 20,000 taels of gold. With the ability of millions of people on Yongxing Jun Road, digesting them is not a simple thing, but it takes some time and there is no need to worry at all!" Zhao Lei picked up the teacup at his hand and looked at the people in the room with a smile.

"Sir, this is a good method! The official will send someone to do it right away!" Fan Zhongyan did not expect Zhao Lei to solve the reward problem so quickly, and immediately nodded in admiration.

"Yongxing Army Road is easy to deal with, but the problems faced by the court are not easy to deal with! The court has tens of millions of taels of gold, and it is impossible for the entire Song Dynasty to digest this gold. Now they are facing a shortage of money, so they will have a headache." Although he is in Yan'an Prefecture, Han Qi still pays great attention to the movements of Bian Jing. After solving the rewards from the northern army, he began to care about the court's actions and said in a deep voice.

Damo came back from a business trip, but the unlucky Damo actually had a sore on his back. It is said that it was caused by sitting for a long time. The most terrible thing is that he wanted to get better quickly and need to take a drainage. Although it was a minor surgery, it was also a surgery! It was really unlucky! Damo now feels possessed by a bad god, and the sores caused during the business trip, and the disaster will not go alone!)
Chapter completed!