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Chapter 326: The Account Behind

When I read, I have to blame his ancestors for not being the real ancestor, Shu Taizu, and Emperor Zhenzong of Song.

There are good fields in the book, beautiful women, golden houses, precious carriages and horses, what are you doing for reading? Enjoy it! Let’s enjoy it together.

What if I study for the rise of China, Qian Xuesen returns to the motherland with a simple and simple life...

The starting point and direction of struggle are wrong, so what is the use of the words in the book?

More and more victims from Hebei are pouring into the capital.

Why do disaster victims like to move to the capital? Even the victims in Shaanxi are not far away from more than a thousand miles to run to the capital?

First, this is at the foot of the emperor. Can officials watch the victims starve to death?

Second, there are many rich people in the capital. Although many rich people are unkind, human beings are a contradiction. If they have an evil side, they will also have a good side. Even evil people will sometimes feel a hiding heart. Let alone many rich people have good consciences. In addition, the government's relief can at least keep them half-dead and survive.

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Third, the capital is well-developed. If it is a person with quick hands and feet, he might be able to find some work and save his livelihood.

There are many sands near the Fourth Capital. Although the city is low and stuffy, there are many cool places outside the city. It is advisable to set up porridge sheds and disaster sheds, which are not easy to cause plague.

So a group of victims rushed to the capital.

But this question arises. So many victims are hungry, should they be saved or not?

If you don’t save it, you won’t be able to rebel, but if many people die in the capital, what’s the point? What about saving it?

Chen Jian came up with a solution, sending a corps to buy Chen Su to lend the people, and a household with two stones to save the people.

There are two special points to pay attention to in this short sentence. First, Chenxiu. The price is very low. The second is to lend to the people, not to provide relief to the people. When the weather is better, it will have to be returned to the court, and the new corn is still returned.

What are the benefits of this measure? First, the court now has money to buy new grain, and the major merchants immediately hoarded the goods, and the prices of grain immediately rose. All the people will jump into the fire. However, many big landlords and big grain merchants are even eager to buy the grain, so they will not cause too much fluctuation in the price of grain. Although the people eat poorly, they may survive.

The second day is clear, the people return it, and the treasury will not be damaged. Not many people know about the specific black hole, but everyone vaguely feels that there is a black hole. And it is not small.

Therefore, not only this year, next year or the next year may be difficult to bear. This is not a very small number of victims. Countless victims, hundreds of thousands of households, or even hundreds of thousands of households, even Chen Su, are still a considerable expense.

Everyone agrees.

Just as he was preparing to issue an edict, Sima Guang said: "The sage king's policy is to make the people safe and happy, without being dispersed. The main thing to do is to win people. In the foolish opinion of the minister, it is better to send a fair person as the Hebei supervisor to investigate disasters and hurt prefectures and counties. If the minister who is the prime minister is incompetent, replace it immediately. Then, he can help the indigenous people. Once the residents are at peace, the practitioners will think about it. If all counties and counties are the same, how can there be refugees?"

This is a very subtle sentence.

Why did Sima Guang say this? The imperial treasury can't afford to save it. Now he has changed his methods and turned into loans.

Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, have you ever borrowed from disaster victims? Maybe the local government has borrowed from disaster victims, but as a capital city, have you ever borrowed from disaster victims?

So how to do it? Let the victims go back, and each prefecture and county find ways to go. What is the name of the fusion? It means to move and reconcile. Those who can borrow can borrow from large investors, those who can knock can knock can knock can be grabbed from large investors, and those who can grab can be grabbed from large investors.

Let the local officials do it, first save these victims from living, and don’t care about anything else, so as not to stay in the capital, and not to save them, making the entire Song Dynasty embarrassed.

Look, the wealthy Song Dynasty has come to this point, and think about it, can Zhao Xu not be anxious?

The ministers agreed together, after all, adopting Chen Jian's opinion would be like breaking n rules. And although the Song Dynasty was not good at military affairs, it has always done a good job in disaster relief. The new king ascended the throne, not disaster relief, but loans to disasters, and it is also an ominous sign of spreading it out.

However, this scene is very similar to the scene that happened more than five hundred years later. Chongzhen wanted to provide relief, but the country had no money and could not provide relief. If he had money, even if he had more than 10 million taels of silver, of course, he would starve to death, but would he starve to death? Does Li Zicheng still have the soil for the success of the uprising? In fact, it doesn’t have to be sustained for a long time. As long as he survived for a few more years, the small ice river passed and the national crisis disappeared. And several life-saving things have arrived and they have started planting, such as pumpkins, potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, peanuts...

Ten million taels of silver ruined a dynasty!

Now it is very similar. This self-destructive method actually contains huge dangers.

Then push further, why did the imperial court not provide timely relief for disasters in the seventh year of Xining? Of course, the front line kept fighting and used a lot of money, but it was far less expensive than the Qingli period. So Wang Shao said in the memorial that he owed a word, Emperors and Prime Ministers, listen, I didn’t spend a penny on the court in my great victory in Taoxi, and I got it from my business and clearing the land.

Of course, that is impossible. Besides, there are battlefields between North and South and South Sichuan. But in general, it was not a bankrupt war in Qingli, which had an impact, but not a fatal impact. Why did you have no money to provide disaster relief, or the disaster relief efforts were not enough? The reason is very simple. The black hole is too big, even if Wang Anshi's way of making money has not been filled.

The East Government approved it, but Zhao Xu had to approve it.

Sima Guang said again: "Your Majesty, I would like to ask your Majesty, why did the spring edict release the prisoners of war, and there is no movement yet?"

There is a story behind this.

Wang Ju and his soldiers broke the bankruptcy, and several families dared not speak out.

Mr. Zhao persuaded him, and several people were moved, while others were moved more.

All of Jingyang Wharf are now under construction.

However, these people were too seriously injured and they were not convinced. Besides, it was not Jingyang, and the gentry from several other counties were also waiting and watching.

If they continue like this, their prospects will be very bad in the end.

So someone secretly moved his relationship. The head of several counties, two counties, wrote two memorials, one handed to the Secretariat and the other handed to the Censorate.

If it were normal, Sima Guang would have been furious and began to impeach the censors.

But now when he received the memorial, he pondered for a while and then went to the Secretariat. He was really afraid that Han Qi would be in trouble. In fact, Sima Guang also knew that Han Qi would step down sooner or later if he continued like this. However, Han Qi was determined and he would step down. How many important officials would have to be buried with him? Look, in order to defeat Han, how many people stepped down, including Zhao Xu's teacher Wang Tao.

Don’t talk about him, if Han Qi is willing to pull Zeng Gongliang, Zeng Gongliang will become a victim.

But Han Qi also has several ways to do it, decent, indecent, and afterwards, Han Qi will never be able to get on the throne again. Zheng Baiqu is the most promising political achievement he may have in the Secretariat.

Therefore, at this moment, Sima Guang didn't care about Wang Ju's ideas at all. This kid is a big shot, but he couldn't ignore Han Qi's ideas.

After coming to the Secretariat, he handed the memorial to Han Qi to read.

Han Qi also handed him two memorials, one was written by the other master Bo, which was similar to what Sima Guang had in his hands, and the other was given to the Secretariat by Wang Ju.

The result was almost the same, and nine families paid so much money and grain.

The process is similar, but the text is slightly different. One is that Wang Ju forcibly captured their servants, and then complained to the point of being a trick. He used this false accusation to capture several officials, and then complained to the point of being a trick. He then sent several battalions of soldiers to force several officials to hand over so much food, money and silk.

One is that some powerful people were greedy and occupied almost all the Zhengbai Canal irrigation areas. Wang Ju disagreed and sent people to spread rumors and cause trouble, fan the flames, and intend to destroy the canal workers. They were accompanied by their confessions.

The two statements, but the matter was basically the same. After comparison, Sima Guang and Han Qi could see the truth at a glance. Perhaps several officials were not satisfied with Wang Ju's unsatisfiedness, so they sent servants to spread rumors everywhere, and the servants were all rough people and did not pay attention to their words, so they asked Wang Ju to send soldiers to secretly hear and record them one by one. Think about it, Wang Ju can even find out about the information from Xixia. Isn't it a piece of cake to find out about these servants?

Therefore, he consciously selectively recorded his confessions and blackmailed nine outs.

After Han Qi and Sima Guang looked at it, they said a few words, and the first sentence was: "You are really a disaster, and the government's internal treasury has not allocated a single piece of relief."

The rest were not said, but Sima Guang heard it, which means that the inner warehouse is very tight. Most ministers are not sure how much money the inner warehouse is. But if there is trouble, it will be a big trouble. The first thing that affects the canal workers is. If the inner warehouse has no money, then the funds must be allocated from the three departments. How much money can the three departments allocate? Secondly, the inner warehouse has no money. What should these royal children do to support them? Once thousands of royal children reach out to ask for money, Han Qi will have to go there, and the money will be miserable.

Han Qi said the second sentence: "Junshi, you don't know how chaotic it is in Jingyang. Wang Ju originally rented Li Yuanwai's house to live in, so Wang Ju refused to surrender. Some gentry forced Li Yuanwai to chase Wang Ju away. In this way, Wang Ju could not rent the house in Jingyang City, so he sent soldiers to build some thatched huts by a small stream of canal workers. Maybe Wang Ju was a little radical and did not have this cause, so why did he get this result?"

Okay, just because Wang Ju lives in that thatched hut, he has a reason to do it more radically.

First, if you have a reason, and second, for the sake of money, you will spend tens of thousands of dollars on the other side, and you will use tens of thousands of dollars on the other side. Even the money and grain will be directly sent to the canal workers. The money will be allocated for the internal treasury, and one stone of grain will be allocated for the internal treasury!

Han Qi expressed this situation, Sima Guang withdrew from the Secretariat and burned the memorial at will, not even keeping one archive.

But he could not tolerate this prisoner of war.

"Sima Qing, wait," Zhao Xu whispered to the eunuch behind him.

The eunuch took out a large map from behind the palace.

This was transferred by Han Qi to Zhao Xu. The map was presented to the Secretariat, not in the hands of Zhao Xu.

The map is very detailed. The flat areas are divided into six types according to the height of the sea, including dark blue, medium blue, light blue, dark green, medium green and light green. Originally, Wang Ju wanted to use yellow instead, but if you don’t use yellow, you will definitely be taboo. Only the yellow will be taboo, but Wang Ju saves trouble, so he changed it to two colors: blue and green. The surrounding mountainous areas are ochre.

The main canal and the large branch canal and the small branch canal are divided according to the black and thick lines. The steep gate is a hanging gate, the shuidong is a hole pattern, the stone pond is a Great Wall-shaped, and the fish scale pond is added to the bottom of the Great Wall. The water harem is painted with a wavy shape.

Although so many projects are dazzling, you can understand this mark if you carefully read it.

Zhao Xu pointed to the big picture and said, "The three parts of Zhengbai Canal are built this year. Yang Pan led the people's soldiers to start from the small Zhengquan, and Wang Ju led the people's soldiers to start from the canal head and meet in autumn. The faster the speed, the better. If we can gather in advance and put the water into the new canal before the autumn flood falls, then the people can cultivate and irrigate in time and grab a season of winter wheat."

Zhao Xu has no need to explain how important it is to grab a season of winter wheat.

"But it is not the main canal irrigation. The main canal is water diversion. The real irrigation is the huge branch canal. The first part is divided into two water level irrigation areas, high in the northwest, open to water control, low in the southeast, mainly in the Bai Canal in the south. The more it is repaired, the more fertile fields will benefit from irrigation this year. I sent a central envoy to pass the imperial edict and deliberately asked the central envoy to inspect it. The completion of the renovation is very good now, and the most difficult part of the canal head has been basically completed at that time. But I have also seen many bad situations, especially the irrigation areas. This irrigation area has almost been encircled together, and is even close to the northern mountainous areas, although there is no irrigation anywhere. When autumn comes, a lot of material and manpower will be wasted in order to deal with these irrigation fields. But the canal workers are already lacking labor..."

"Your Majesty, in my opinion, there is a policy that can be feasible. As long as your Majesty releases prisoners of war immediately and reopens the trade, the Xixia king is new and the woman is in power, he will be peaceful with our dynasty. Then more soldiers can be drawn from the front line to build the canals." Sima Guang said slowly.

"Sima Qing, there is a person who once calculated the calculations with me. In order to buy peace, our dynasty will spend not 255,000 yuan a year, but 25.5 million yuan."

"Where does this number come from?"

"Sima Qing, compare the military expenditure of Shaanxi before Li Jiqian's rebellion with the current military expenditure of Shaanxi to see if there is so much?"

"Taizong was eager to achieve success at that time, and summoning Li Ji to the court was a wrong decision. If there was no such move, how could Shaanxi have a lot of trouble?"

"The ancestors have made it, is it useful now? As you said, I can make a decision and add 200,000 yuan to buy peace, but do I dare to withdraw half of the Shaanxi garrison and cut half of the various military service in Shaanxi?"

Wang Ju often brainwashed Zhao Xu, and even took some useful things.

Don’t we think peace is the most important thing? Okay, let’s express more sincerity and don’t restore the situation in Shaanxi before Li Jiqian. I will only reduce my troops by half. OK?

"Sima Qing, do you think I don't want peace and don't know the benefits of peace? But this peace is too expensive. Think about the huge garrison in Hebei, Hedong, Shaanxi, and the cost of a year, I can't sleep or eat."

This is the key.

The actual problem of the 500,000 Liao Kingdom and the 250,000 Xixia Kingdom is really not important, and it will be revealed as soon as it is saved. Can the key be calculated?

"Sima Qing, do you know how difficult the national finance is?"

However, this sentence made Sima Guang grab the tail: "Your Majesty, it's just a difficult situation, and the border must be quiet!"

ps: Although I am a little bit dark-hearted, I can only enter the top ten in the Northern Song Dynasty novels in terms of depth? Why is it a bit deserted? Dear brothers and sisters, if I think I am writing well, the rich will support a money field, and the poor will support a personal field, hahaha. (To be continued...)
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